viral video of teen punishment

[MissBrattified]

Disgusting behavior on the part of both parents. I could make a specific list but it would be too long. Smart kid, though, catching it on tape.

Originally Posted by deltaguitar

It doesn't look like the girl was actually hurt physically.

That being said, this isn't discipline at all but looks more like anger.

Really? So as long as there aren't lacerations and broken bones, she isn't "hurt?"

Originally Posted by canam

I got worse than that when i was a kid and i turned out just fine.

Who cares? My husband was beat till blood run down his legs and worse and he turned out fine, too. Albeit with a lot of hurt and anger to work through. How you "turn out" doesn't necessarily speak to your parents' parenting skills. Some abused children rise above their circumstances and become normal, successful adults. That doesn't make the abuse right.

Originally Posted by Cindy

And then Mom joined in?

That would happen in my house over my dead body. Not only did the Mom not try to protect her daughter, she actually made sure that the Dad knew the whole thing was her daughter's fault. The only thing that I saw that seemed like a sort of back handed defense is that she was trying to get the girl to allow her to whip her on the "butt" so that the Dad would stop. It seemed like a weak attempt at stopping the situation to me.

I would wonder whether or not that anger had been turned on the Mom in the form of physical abuse. Emotional abuse with this kind of man is a given.

Sickening.

FYI, this video was made in 2004, when the girl was 16. She had the video for a long time and finally released it to the press herself. According to the article below, she has cerebral palsy, making this abuse even more unpalatable. (As if any at all is palatable.)

Link to another article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1071822.html

[deltaguitar]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Disgusting behavior on the part of both parents. I could make a specific list but it would be too long. Smart kid, though, catching it on tape.



Really? So as long as there aren't lacerations and broken bones, she isn't "hurt?"



Who cares? My husband was beat till blood run down his legs and worse and he turned out fine, too. Albeit with a lot of hurt and anger to work through. How you "turn out" doesn't necessarily speak to your parents' parenting skills. Some abused children rise above their circumstances and become normal, successful adults. That doesn't make the abuse right.



That would happen in my house over my dead body. Not only did the Mom not try to protect her daughter, she actually made sure that the Dad knew the whole thing was her daughter's fault. The only thing that I saw that seemed like a sort of back handed defense is that she was trying to get the girl to allow her to whip her on the "butt" so that the Dad would stop. It seemed like a weak attempt at stopping the situation to me.

I would wonder whether or not that anger had been turned on the Mom in the form of physical abuse. Emotional abuse with this kind of man is a given.

Sickening.

FYI, this video was made in 2004, when the girl was 16. She had the video for a long time and finally released it to the press herself. According to the article below, she has cerebral palsy, making this abuse even more unpalatable. (As if any at all is palatable.)

Link to another article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1071822.html

My daughter is a very good child and very rarely needs spankings. She does not respond well to spankings. It seems to make her worse. She is six and I really hate to spank her but sometimes when she will not allow other correction I am left with no choice.

She claims that my spankings do not hurt, I think she has a high pain tolerance. Anyway, if I was going to spank her to the point of changing her mind about something it would probably look like abuse even though she might be laughing the whole time.

As a child I would never tell my parents that it didn't hurt or laugh when they spanked me because I knew they could make it hurt.

Anyway, I have decided that spankings do not work with my daughter. I spend a lot of time talking with her and trying to teach her. Sometimes she still gets a spanking but only if she is in pure rebellion and it hurts me to do it but it seems like she begs for it at times.

I got spanked all the time as a child and I am not sure the spankings ever helped my attitude or submission.