Did you think you had strict parents growing up ? Increasingly in America, parents are using public humiliation as a way to discipline out of control teenagers. Moving forward, society needs to decide if this type of discipline is acceptable or not. This particularly topic is very controversy, and has split our country in two. Public Humiliation is not a legitimate use of parental authority because it leads to the teen being harassed & it over uses parental power to acknowledge a point. There are many reasons why public humiliation of teens leads to harassment.
The whole reason why parents use public humiliation is let people acknowledge that their teen made a mistake and they want them to shame their child. They are publicly allowing and wanting strangers to give criticism to their teen. Teens are known for teasing and, bullying other teens especially after something embarrassing has happened to the other. For example in the case of 15 year old Jasmine from Florida, Jasmine had hold up a sign saying “I sneak boys in at 3a. m and disrespect my parents and grandparents” This was broadcasted on her local news station.
She didn’t show her face, but you can predict people figured out it was her that was on TV, and most likely teased her calling her names like whore, slut, skank, and other hurtful names. Teens don’t need to be constantly harassed because they made a mistake When is it right as a parent to use your authority to express your opinion. If you had the power to ruin your teen’s life by forcing them to do something outrageous like public humiliation just to get them to acknowledge that your upset or mad would you use it? Many parents in America have already and have humiliated their teen in the worst way possible.
If you’re a parent especially if you have raised multiple children already you should know by now teenagers make mistakes it’s part of being human we all do. Those parents that chose to use public humiliation had a choice on how to deal with the mistake their teen made and they easily could chosen that would of help their teen understand better to learn from their mistake instead of being publicly humiliated and harassed by their own parents. Some may argue that public humiliation is a legitimate use of parental authority, and think it is a form of discipline to show they are only publicly humiliated them because they love them.
Specifically, they believe that their child is so out of control that they don’t know what to do anymore. Although I disagree with public humiliation of teens I agree that they want the best for their teenagers and are humiliated them out of love. I understand why parents use public humiliation to control their teens because some teenagers are beyond controlling, and parents become helpless. While I agree that parents feel that public humiliation is the only way to control their helpless teenagers, I disagree that parents abuse public humiliation to get strangers to shame them when they simply could use another less harsh form of punishment.
After reading this, we should all at least be thinking on how we can improve our relationships between parent and teenagers and what those roles really mean in society. We learn from this that parents only want the best for their teen, and teens want parents to understand that they are not perfect and wanted them to understand that everyone makes mistakes. We can use what we learned today to better understand both sides parent & teenagers to come together and build a better relationship where parents don’t feel the need to use public humiliation as a last resort their teenagers & teenagers feel that their parents ove them unconditional even if they do make major mistakes.
We could have a future without parent/teen conflict one where both parties completely trust the other and don’t have to worry about seeing one or the other lower or higher than one. Me as a teenager with strict parents as well think that public humiliation crosses a line between your relationship of parent/ teenager. Parents are supposed to be the ones who protect you not the ones who want you to get publicly humiliated on purpose to prove a point.
My parents and I don’t have a perfect relationship I will admit that, but we both acknowledge our weakest traits and know its normal. For example my parents know I constantly forget to do chores, but my parents accept that because they know I don’t do it on purpose or that I do it to be rebel against them. that’s just me and they know it and understand. I think every parent should pay attention to their teenager and understand their behavior so we can just avoid parents having to go to use public humiliation to have a relationship with their teenagers.