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Is the Punishment These Parents Doled Out to Their Disrespectful Daughter Too Harsh?

Mar. 22, 2013 3:03pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Parents Make Teen Daughter Stand Outside With Sign as Punishment for Being Disrespectful

Gentry and Renee Nickells with the sign they made their 13-year-old daughter stand outside and hold. (Image source: Northwest Florida Daily News)

Gentry and Renee Nickell were at the end of their rope.

Their 13-year-old daughter was becoming increasingly disrespectful at home and at school and her grades were slipping. So last weekend, the Florida parents made her stand at a busy intersection holding a sign that said just that: “I’m a Self-entitled teenager w/no Respect for authority. I’m also super smart, yet I have 3 ‘D’s’ because I DON’T CARE.”

“We got to the point where we just didn’t know what else to do,” Renee Nickell of Crestview told the Northwest Florida Daily News.

They said the teen stood outside just 90 minutes, but it was more than enough time for a passing motorist to snap a photo that went viral on Facebook.

The Nickells told the newspaper they’ve been through a difficult year: Renee’s brother was killed in Afghanistan in December 2011, and while everyone struggled, their daughter had a particularly tough time coping with her uncle’s death — acting out and letting her grades suffer.

“We just felt like she just kind of gave up,” her mother said.

They said grounding her didn’t work, and the Nickells don’t buy their children expensive electronics to take away. That led to the sign, the idea for which they said they got from a Christian counselor a few years ago.

Gentry Nickell wasn’t in the photo that went viral on Facebook, but told the newspaper he stood with his daughter the entire time she was outside. The police were called by someone who thought the punishment was excessive, but the officer left after confirming the teen was “aware of her punishment and she was not in any harm,” according to the Daily News.

“I wasn’t even thinking about what the public was going to think,” Renee Nickell said. “I was thinking about our daughter. It was for her to be in the public and recognize what she had done wrong. I asked her, ‘Were you scarred? Traumatized?’ She said, ‘No mom, I knew it was coming.’”

Responding to their critics in a letter to the newspaper, the Nickells wrote: “”We spend so much focus on not wanting to hurt a child’s self esteem that we don’t do anything! A child will feel secure when they see a parent that cares enough to take drastic measures.”

“I assure you, our kids know they are loved…Our 1, 5, and 12 yr old stood on a flightline in the middle of winter receiving the remains of their beloved uncle from war. Walk a mile in someone’s shoes. We are a family that has been thru recent trauma and it took a desperate attempt to show our daughter we are not letting her go, just like the Lord did for us. We will not let her look like the rest of the world. She was called for a bigger purpose…we all are,” the statement said.

The Nickells say their daughter’s behavior has improved since her punishment.

“At the end, she gave me a hug in front of the police officer and told me she was sorry,” Gentry Nickell told the Daily News.

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Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:48pm
Since when has it become the parent’s job to raise children? I am sure they had good intentions but they need to leave it up to our public education system and social services counselors. They are trained in this matter. The problem is when untrained parents with good intentions end up confusing the child over who is accountable for their development: The untrained parent or the well trained and educated teachers and social services counselors! It’s no wonder she is rebelling! If parents got out of the way, test scores would improve! The problem is that parents don’t know what they don’t know.

Parents are seriously impeding the development of our nation’s youth through instilling beliefs and myths that organized religion passes off as truth. Does it not make sense that the message be consistent and unified through a single source rather than the confusion of multiple belief systems? This is what the future will hold if we continue down the road of greedy capitalism and religious myth.

Parents acting as selfish and arrogant individuals are undermining the power of collective education which is consistent and instills the superior value of the unselfish collective people! In other words, it is not about you! Its about the people! We must work as one mind, hand in hand, arm in arm as a unified people and purge society of greedy individualists that have resulted in today’s corrupt & broken society!

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- Granny67
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:21pm
  What is so sad, is that we have come to a point where I am not sure if you are serious or sarcastic. There are some that are nutty enough to think this way. If you are serious, you are probably offended by this. I don’t care.
  
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- TotallyNotATroll
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:27pm
  I love these guys, more parents should be like this, probably changed the girls life for the better forever.
  
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- chubster
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:33pm
  Dear God Mel, I hope you’re being sarcastic. If not, please move to China. You’ll be right at home there.
  
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- russianrick
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:34pm
  Wow, what are you doing on this site? Your comment couldn’t be further from the truth. Raising children in the public education machine leaves them confused, depressed, and stupid. The only people who actually live to change the world are the ones who rise above the generic and prescribed education and make something else. People complain about there not being enough teachers in classrooms and how our classroom sizes are too big. Imagine a place where every child has 2 teachers assigned to them that guide them every day of their lives and teach them at their own pace. If we stopped focusing on public education and encouraged parents to raise their children, I hypothesize that we would see a drastic improvement in education.
  
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- ladysaule
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:36pm
  Melvin, I sincerely hope that you were kidding. The parents were correct in their actions. The problem with today’s children is that they are being taught that no one matters except them. Kids need to have guide lines; this shows them that someone cares enough to do something.
  
  My parents raised me to know right from wrong; to know that I would succeed only if I showed for it; that the world/society owed me nothing. And you know what, I’m a better person for it. I tried to raise my children the same way, and guess what? They are also productive, honorable adults with respectful and hard working children.
  
  And one more thing, Melvin, just who is going to pay for all the stuff that you and these children are going to want and think that they are entitled to, if no one is hard working? Do you think that there is some gift fairy that will grant the wish? Well, just as you don’t believe in religion you certainly couldn’t believe in the gift fairy.
  
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- buckeye-jo
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:54pm
  Melvin, awesome comment!
  
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- Melvin Spittle
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:03pm
  You guys know me by now. I tried to be over the top with the comment to contrast what I feel a typical liberal public employee thinks. Ultimately, whether they know it or not, their ideology leads to the latter part of the comment.
  
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- Disgusted_in_CT
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:16pm
  You may have written that as a tongue in cheek post but the sad fact remains is that quite a few liberals do think that way.
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:41pm
  you funnier than richard pryor! hahahhahahahah
  
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- Jrocks
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:44pm
  I hope your kidding, but if not your a communist plain and simple. This is what you have been taught by the progressive movement. God help us….
  
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- Cadcamtrainer
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:08pm
  Bad mushrooms???.
  
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- RickMik
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:20pm
  Your obvious, biting and accurate sarcastic comment is refreshing. Satire and ridicule are both effective weapons to combat creeping statist collectivism.
  
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- oldcanadianeh
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:30pm
  i really hope that your tongue was in your cheek on this one…better that than your head in your a** if you are serious in your comment
  
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- FstEti
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:43pm
  Melvin, I’m a little concerned that a few of the posters here were incapable of grasping your well written sarcastic comment. Although I appreciate what appears to their conservative support, I’ll just assume that they are younger generation supporters and likely the result of our fine public school system, and as such, lack the ability to appreciate your thoughts. Incidentally, I’m an “old fart” of sixty seven with only a high school diploma which, fortunately, meant a lot more in 1964 than it does now. Thanks for the laugh!
  
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- PK_SEA
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:00pm
  It’s amazing how so many people on these Blaze theads don’t understand sarcasm. Melvin for the win!
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:51pm
  Cass Sundstein, Hitler, Pelosi, or Stalin couldn’t have said it better.
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:23pm
  Nice to see the white folk still caring about their kids, nice to see a kid with a mommy and a daddy still.
  
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- CourageousGeorge
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:10pm
  Comrade Melvin,
  You have proven through superior collective intelligence your qualification to apply as writer for glorious thePeoplesCube.com. And as bonus, you get free one extra month of toilet paper!
  
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- Judeo_Christian
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:36pm
  Illustrating Absurdity By Being Absurd. I Love It!
  
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- firearm
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:10pm
  I can’t tell if your serious or joking! lol
  
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- Dreaming_of_1776_Living_in_1984
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 2:36am
  That is some snappy sarcasm right there! Genius!
  
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- Jacksureshot
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 5:34am
  Obviously you are a giant moron, and i hope you dont now nor ever have children. The absent parent expecting ecpveryone else to raise your p.o.s kid. it is the job of thecparents to teach their kids values and respect fo others, the liberal morons in school system tell the kids they are so damn special, they start to believe it and forget their place in society. Lack of parenting, and single parent households are an epidemic. Cut the balks off every dead beat dad, specially tye ones that have multiple children by multiple women, run like cowards and expect the government to raise thei retarded seed. Drug use, arrests for all types of crimes, including violent crime, STD’s rates are all at all time high for under 18 offenders. Time to start kicking these douche’s ass. No more kids will be kill ********. Time to beat some ass. When theybare out at the supermarket destroying merchandise, joyriding, and even raping girls and brag about it online. Time to kick that ass. So many ***** ass parents who just want to be loved by their kids, good for these parents in the story, Wake up, stop trying to your kids friend and be parents so thry dont end up useless delinquents.
  
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- MittensKittens
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 6:11am
  Now that was a mouthful…my take is, if you think you are going to raise my kids you got another thing coming, and if you think you will come onto my land, you’ll end up eating dirt!
  
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- 1956
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 10:30am
  I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are being sarcastic in giving the progressive, liberal viewpoint. If not, God help you and the rest of the nation that would believe this… and unfortunately, there are many who do.
  
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- LESNC
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 11:55am
  You have got to be kidding, public schools have been raising kids for decades and look at he mess we have.
  
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- SLOWBIDEN
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:08pm
  Jack sure shot he was being sarcastic. But I hope Obama doesn’t read it. It might become policy.
  
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- littlechi
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:15pm
  Melvin, while reading this I thought it was scarcasic to what had happened. But after going all the way to the end I readlize you are a commie. The parents are some of the best parents. They are not giving up on her. What comes out of the schools right now are not being taught anything but lies. Please go lay under a bus while the oil drips on you and think about what you have said. While you are at it add some nuts and bolts, you might be able to get fixed to be a real human being.
  
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- nancienice
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:20pm
  Wow! Great message. I can’t believe the number of people on this site that do not have a sense of humor! I’ve discovered that I’m judgemental of people who are always serious. Get a life!
  
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- pieman
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 12:57pm
  Spittle – if you want your child raised by Hillary’s Village then move to a socialist country – how about China or Russia. If you’d like a theocracy – try any Muslim country – Iran would be a good start.
  
  You are so ill informed – I am a teacher and am no more a parent than the “man in the moon”. The school system does not train teachers to deal with many of the social ills of our society. Most of the students today are making poor grades and judgements because “real” parents are absent from their lives and grandparents/guardians are doing the best they can while the parents are serving prison terms for drugs, partying, sleeping around, or just don’t give a dam.
  
  Individualism built this nation – see George Washington, James Madison, Paul Revere, Sons of Liberty, Richard Dawes, Benjamin Rush, John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Smith, William Penn, Martha Washington, Betsy Ross, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Lewis and Clark,
  Sam Houston, James Polk, US Grant, Andrew Jackson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Nathan Hale, Patrick Henry, Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan, Allen West, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Col. Travis, and thousands more…..
  
  When the rich are gone and the individuals have fled we will all be headed to the Gulags.
  
  Read Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, –
  
  See difference between West Germany and East Germany – 1989 wall comes down.
  
  Wake up you brainwashed sole before you have website to
  
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- DenverKitty
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:00pm
  This kid/young lady may have a chance.
  
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- tkey
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:18pm
  As I read this comment I wondered weather it was simply tongue in cheek. The more I read your comment the more I became even more convinced that people like you are the real problem in this country.
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 1:53pm
  Melvin your the man!!! Good job… How on earth anyone could think your serious is beyond me…. You were kidding right??? Ha ha ha …..
  
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- Melvin Spittle
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 3:43pm
  Forward fellow comrades! It’s time to call it what it is and be proud! Communism 2.0 is here with 50% more at no additional cost! I you buy within the next 10 minutes, we will include Healthcare 2.0 free (just pay separate shipping and handling)!
  
  This is what you get when you elect Sham-Wow salesmen into office. They have dusted off cold war communism and re-branded it as something new and improved!
  
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- marssnw
  Posted on March 23, 2013 at 6:23pm
  The cops should track down whoever called them and give them a fine for calling for no apparent reason. To many morons out there think any kind of punishment is abuse. If you don’t punish your children when they do something wrong, you have just shown that child that you do not love them and could care less what they do. Why do you think so many fatherless children act up? Its because they have no structure or discipline in their life.
  
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- rzraick
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 6:24am
  You are kidding right?
  
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- Sweet Afton
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 3:17pm
  It’s called SATIRE people… look it up.
  
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- allotrios
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 11:01pm
  Haha! You’re my kind of cynical bastard, Melvin! And you’re absolutely right. It’s ritardulous to think that the US is above falling into despotism or communism like so many great nations before her. I enjoyed reading your comments, keep up the witticism. Hard to understand how some people couldn’t see it as satire, it was so extreme.
  
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- RightOnline
  Posted on March 30, 2013 at 10:29am
  Melvin……guess you forgot the [/sarcasm] tag…….well-said. Suppose many here didn’t catch on.
  
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carhouse
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:46pm
well if the school system did its job kids would not need parents.
you know we pay taxes to the school to raise our children. mine is in jail…. for ever.

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- just happy
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 9:28pm
  it is sad that many thought that the public school was a substitute for the parents role in educating the child. it was OK when it was reading writing and arithmetic and the parents knew what was in the books. over time we were lulled into thinking the “school” has it covered. we sold all the kids to the state because a few had bad parents. time to fix it folks. and even us oldsters need to be picking up this torch.
  
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yiska8
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:43pm
Well, it worked. I was surprised to hear the kid wasn’t given any mind numbing tech gadgets. Good for the parents. She knew it was coming, so she knew right from wrong. She wanted some attention and she got it. And I hope she’s learned from it. If she chooses poorly again, and ends up in juvenile or jail, I think these parents would let her sit there. This kid shouldn’t push it. It’s nice to hear of a struggling family that didn’t give up on their kid. And no antidepressants were needed. Refreshing.

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FlowerBell
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:42pm
Unless a crime is being committed, sexual abuse etc, it is nobody’s business how anyone else parents their own children.

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- Al J Zira
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:57pm
  Amen! I was thinking the same thing.
  
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- 226crimsontrace
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:24pm
  Wonder who the jacka$$ was who called the cops, and why
  Gross humiliation with intent to commit embarrassment????
  
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- Vision Harry
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:47pm
  Children have NO rights, they have privileges, which are doled out by the parents on an earnings basis.
  Children are not our Friends,they are our inheritances from the Lord, which we as adults have the responsibility to fill with moralistic, intelligent, principles.
  Kudos to these parents for doing the right thing.
  
  As per the Baby shot in the face and other senseless crime, Vigilantism is well overdue.
  
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BACKUPOFFMYLIBERTY
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:40pm
What’s this?! A husband and wife still married to each other trying to be responsible and caring parents?? GASP!

They have my full support. People like Mr. and Mrs. Nicholls are the only hope we have left in America. Also, my condolences go out to them for the loss of their brother and uncle.

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- Exidor
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:53pm
  Exactly. And it apparently worked.
  
  I don’t see it as “punishment”. I see it as a lesson learned.
  
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- scrapadapolis
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:09pm
  Are you serious Two parents who care?Whats wrong with this picture.My only problem with my kid is the socialistic ways taught in school I still cant break her of.Shes 22.I wanted to home school the wife said no.well look what I have now.an OBLAMA lover.She hates me when I tell the truth and she disbelives me and goes home.Long live consertive thinking.
  
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GOFORT
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:39pm
Good job parents! Reminds me of a lesson taught by my Dad when I was a young teenager. My brother and I were responsible for putting the trash out to the curb every week. We would occasionally forget and scolded…don’t forget again, or you will be carryoing the trash to the dump! . Once, we forgot three weeks in a row and sure enough, that Saturday morning we were told to carry the trash can to the dump. There we were, my brother and I walking down the side of the road carrying the trash can between us. Naturally, our friends were out riding their bikes around and came upon us. “Whatcha doing?” we were asked. “Going to the dump” we answered. Pretty humbling, we never forgot two weeks in a row again! I can’t help but laugh when I tell this story now, 40 years later! Sure do miss my Dad!

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- CatB
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:56pm
  Yes .. my brother when little thought it was funny to run out into the road … and he was fast .. my dad told him he was acting like a bad dog and was going to get hit by a car (we did not live on a busy road .. but still it was a possibility) .. When my brother continued .. my dad told him if he was going to act like a “bad” dog .. he would treat him like one ..went and got a rope .. tied it around his wrist (hard to untie from your own wrist ;-) ).. .. and tied him to a tree (gave him enough rope to move around) .. then went in and OF COURSE watched the entire time though the window .. to make sure he didn’t hurt or untie himself … he went out about a half hour later .. asked if he was going to run in the road anymore .. my brother said no .. and guess what … HE DIDN”T .. of course that was DECADES ago .. and now Dad would most likely be arrested!
  
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- midnightvelvet
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 4:03am
  My brother decided one day that he to was a dog. Dad said “dogs go outside” and put him out. It was during the winter and pretty cold out. He decided fairly quickly that he didn’t want to be a dog anymore.
  
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cessna152
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:36pm
I think it’s degrading what they did and not really a good way to motivate. We simply took one thing at a time away from our children until they had nothing left.Yes, grounding works the best and taking away one privilege at a time. Started doing family devotions and giving back her life one item at a time each time she earned our trust. It took several years, but to this day she thanks us for doing what we did. Folks…it takes time, patience and most importantly PRAYER!

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- HornsFan96
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:32pm
  Uh, not all kids are alike. Some need different kinds of punishments.
  
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- dorightfearnothing
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 5:09pm
  Well Cessna, there those young people out their that require a bit more creativity on the parents part in order to humble a stuborn child. These parents definately stepped out of the box while stepping up to the plate, and I applaud them. I agree with prayer for sure, in my case for example, your methods would have failed misserably, however my Dad’s heavy hand did not. Different methods are required for different personalities….
  
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- David-FL
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:32pm
  Degrading? Ha! That’s the point! Gotta break that child before he/she breaks her own life with everlasting effects.
  
  btw.. what makes you think she hasn’t been grounded and things taken away? You have no clue what the parents went thru. You OBVIOUSLY did not read the article prior to posting. they said “GROUNDING DID NOT WORK”!
  
  I am so tired of people posting out of emotion and a BRIEF review of the article without taking the time to really read it in it’s entirety!!!!!!!!!
  
  Read, then post. Otherwise, you just look STUPID!
  
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- David-FL
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:34pm
  I [will] agree with you on the prayer part tho!
  
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- CJ_94
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:13pm
  Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what you think. It’s what the parents think that matters. And as long as they aren’t doing anything illegal, immoral or harmful, it’s none of anyone’s business what they do.
  
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- toto
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 7:28pm
  Geez, the first punishment or “correction” should be swift and to the point. Nicking kids to death on issues is what is ineffective. Bravo to the parents, their children will not be the pathetic leeches on society and poor parents themselves that SO many kids are today because they don’t have parents that are “effective communicators”.
  
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perry1980
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:35pm
No it’s not. Add a spanking and maybe just right

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- DORA_GASBAG
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:51pm
  That’s exactly what my dads used to say … to each other.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:00pm
  DORA_GASBAG
  
  Lol !!!!
  
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KyleD
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:33pm
Maybe she has no respect for authority because her authority does this kind of thing to maintain their authority? Just saying.

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- brother_ed
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:41pm
  @KYLED
  
  You don’t have kids, do you?
  
  While some parents maybe overly authoritarian, most see parenthood has an opportunity to rear responsible citizens. They see themselves as ‘guides’ not ‘rulers’.
  
  However, if a child refuses to be guided, then they are well within their bounds to use their authority.
  
  We all know that kids learn best when taught with love, and most respond to such tactics, but when all else fails, I am the boss and my kids know it.
  
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- Gremlin1974
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:11pm
  I would just love to hear your suggestion? Lets hear it from the mouth of someone who is obviously an expert. This should be good.
  
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- David-FL
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:35pm
  @Kyled,
  
  “Just saying”?… just saying something stupid!
  
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- CJ_94
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 7:19pm
  So when you are too harsh with your kids, they rebel? Is that it? Clearly, you don’t have kids.
  
  Have you ever stopped to think why kids join gangs? You think these parents are tough? Break the rules in a gang and they beat you till near-death. But kids willingly join gangs. Overwhelmingly, the kids in my town joining gangs have absentee parents (both working, don’t care, overwhelmed single parent, etc).
  
  Kids WANT rules. They WANT boundaries. They WANT to know that someone will be there who will allow them to grow safely but will enforce their boundaries. When parenting is lax or non-existent, kids lash out in violent ways.
  
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dpaulsen39
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:32pm
Great parents who actually care about their kids. I love it when ppl comment on how well behaved my kids are and ask how we do it. Its called, we are parents not friends.

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DORA_GASBAG
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:29pm
Both of my dads used to spank me. Then, for reasons I didn’t understand at the time, they used to spank each other.

Those were the good old days. hic

(Now if only I could fit a nasty comment about Ann Romney in here somewhere, hmmm)

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AlansTigg
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:23pm
I am amazed, though I probably shouldn’t be, at the number of people who think this was just horrible. Raising children properly is NOT easy, especially today..what works for one does not necessarily work for another. These parents cared enough to do what they thought best, something suggested by a counselor. The child was not in danger, not going to suffer long term damage to her fragile psyche…get a grip, life is hard and coddling children does not prepare them for it

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cast
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:23pm
Whatever works. As long as the child isn’t in any harm.

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Witness1974
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:19pm
One of the things we’ve lost in this country is a sense of shame. Shame is a healthy response on the part of a transgressor. But, we’ve tried to run around it with our self-esteem programs. Liberals would have this child continue on the downward path while they try to convince her how worthy of praise she is. These are good parents.

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- brother_ed
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:37pm
  @WITNESS1974
  
  That’s one of the reasons I love hockey…when you get a penalty you have to go sit in the box for 2 minutes (or more) and “feel shame”.
  
  Seriously, though, you are right.
  
  One of the tactics used to rid society of shame is to stop honoring the successful – look at Ipswich, MA.
  
  Or you could throw out any semblance of an ideal, so you don’t feel badly for not living up to it – if it feels good, do it.
  
  Or you could put half the country on government assistance, so you feel better if everybody else is on ‘welfare’, too.
  
  Or you can claim that your particular shortcoming is a ‘civil rights’ issue.
  
  Pick your tactic, the Left has many ways of making people feel un-inadequate.
  
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- dylan
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:51pm
  The younger generation has loose moral entitlements. (not all, of course). My friends daughter found herself pregnant with a not interested father. Houston is now 3 and daughter wanted another so they could be ‘close together’. She has had a second child and is living with her fiancee. No definitive on the calender for the big day. No sense of decorum at all. She works and has some gov. subsidies. This is what she has to look forward to in future. Single mom with two children under 3. Peachy cream. Her first child was at 17, the second not yet 20. Entitled to do what, when and how when she pleases. Oh, each child had the baby shower. In my neck of the woods, one was lucky to have one for the first. I did not. Married and got along just fine without one. (we were new to our area) Social mores have gone the way of flying pigs. Anything goes.
  
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- bobbiejean
  Posted on March 24, 2013 at 12:50am
  Witness, Yes! Shame seems to be so, so, uh, shameful now. A person (usually a celebrity)
  will do some awful thing, and they are talked about as though they are heroes! It always
  makes me shout at the TV, when I hear the story: “Have you no shame?” Yep, that’s right.
  They have no shame, because we have been taught that we should not judge the actions
  of the other person. Well, sorry. If they act like a dumbass, they ARE a dumbass!
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:17pm
Seems reasonable.

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Daniel
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:14pm
Wish a lot more parents would dole out such love to their children. Maybe an 18 month old boy in Georgia would still be alive this afternoon had parents of a couple brats showed some true love.

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Watcher1952
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:14pm
Thank you Parents….. for being parents and not just friends. Your daughter hugged and thanked you then and in the future she will love you even more. This dicipline from you will help her with self dicipline in the future….. the making of another productive human being has begun

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Leerm
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:14pm
I’m 58 and I dont have children. I can not imagine what it is like to raise kids in today society but it looks and sounds like you are doing a pretty good job. For the brother and uncle you lost, Semper FI.

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deeberj
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:14pm
I don’t understand. How did she become self entitled with no respect for authority? You have to consciously raise your children to instill respect and the work ethic.

I don’t think that sign is going to teach her that.

If they taught her right and she’s rebelling, then they need to address her rebellious heart, not her self entitled attitude.

I would never humiliate my child to teach him something. Standing on the road with a sign is humiliating and could even cause more rebellion out of anger and shame.

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- Gladileftcalifornia
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:20pm
  Oh please. SMH.
  
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- Leerm
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:28pm
  I’m sure you think the State could do a better job of raising the child.
  
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- RoadKing3001
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:35pm
  REALLY!? How about the inept teachers and the indoctrination kids receive in today’s school system; How about the liberal biased media; How about you KoolAid drinking Dems that think everything will be fine as long as we throw more money at it! Get a clue!!!
  
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Bill Wallace
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:13pm
Another instance of the frontal attack by liberalism.

We can’t be parents anymore. You can’t physcially punish your kids, at least not in public, for anything, or else some wacko liberal calls the cops and claims child abuse.

Taking away privileges is “bullying”.
Having them humiliated in public like these parents did is a form of bullying, intimidation, and condemned by liberals.

But sitting around and letting little Timmie or Susie run amok and commit crimes, well that is how you breed liberals. Make them dependent on the State.

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AquamanSucks
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:12pm
Good Parents
Good Punishment
Good Cop
Good Job

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- Gremlin1974
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 4:14pm
  Yea, super impressed with the Cop. I don’t see this as any different than my mother making me go over to a neighbors house and apologize for tearing up part of her flower garden, she then made me use my money to buy new flowers and replant them myself.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:11pm
Be careful.. the DFS doesn’t care if she knows she is being punished. Stripping children away from their families and putting them into foster care is a multibillion dollar industry in the United States.

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termyt
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:09pm
The police were called by someone who thought the punishment was excessive, but the officer left after confirming the teen was “aware of her punishment and she was not in any harm,”

What? No child services? I wish I was not surprised by this.

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spirited
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:09pm
Good parents.

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RETIREDUSAFDEFENDER
Posted on March 22, 2013 at 3:09pm
This country needs a lot more of this!!!!!!!

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