Do you think this was too far...

[Dimitri]

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BIGGER PICTURE: A mom in Indiana says she's at her wit's end with her son's behavior.
After he had several run-ins with police, she took matters into her own hands.
She's making her 14 year old stand on the street, wearing a sign with a list of his crimes.
She says he only received a few hours of community service and she felt that punishment wasn't tough enough.
The teen's sign clearly states he doesn't follow the law, but apparently some drivers passing by didn't think his mom was either and called police.
Officers say the mother is completely within her rights to make her son stand on the side of the street.

What do you think? Is this mother going too far?

[Gandalf]

Brilliant! A parent willing to name and shame her son. Maybe it just might work.

[Rayquaza]

That is actually a good idea. I support it. As long as shes standing near him, he deserves it.

If he was only 2 years older, he'd have his tight ass thrown in jail. Even this itself isn't good enough, but this mum sure is a genius.

[Manjusri]

I don't think she's going too far at all. If the kid steals and what not, then he should know there's a risk of him being publicly recorded or arrested anyways. Just seems like the mom beat the authorities to the punch on this one.

[Human]

That is actually a good idea. I support it. As long as shes standing near him, he deserves it.

If he was only 2 years older, he'd have his tight ass thrown in jail. Even this itself isn't good enough, but this mum sure is a genius.

"he'd have his tight ass thrown in jail" WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING 0.0
I think it's fine she's put him like that.

[Gandalf]

"he'd have his tight ass thrown in jail" WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING 0.0
I think it's fine she's put him like that.

Sandeep wasn't implying anything, merely stating he'd goto prison if he was older. So please, no arguements.

[Dimitri]

Sandeep wasn't implying anything, merely stating he'd goto prison if he was older. So please, no arguements.

Dude, I posted this in ROTW so there could be debates...relax

[Gandalf]

Dude, I posted this in ROTW so there could be debates...relax

Yes Lee, I know I was just saying to Connor that nothing rude/offensive was being implied.

[Rayquaza]

"he'd have his tight ass thrown in jail" WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING 0.0
I think it's fine she's put him like that.

You know exactly what I'm implying. Im saying he would be jailbait. The fact is, if he was just a bit older, him going to jail would have had a massive impact on his life, doing this has exactly no impact whatsoever. He could still go back to stealing or drug dealing. This won't affect him in any way. Whereas, people that come out of jail have a chance to learn from their mistakes.

[Dimitri]

Here is another... This actually happened five minutes from my house...

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CANTON —
Michelle Truman’s children stood on the east and west corners of Wertz Avenue NW and Tuscarawas Street on Tuesday afternoon, holding signs that proclaimed to passing motorists, “I Was a Thief Now I’m not.”

“They were caught stealing,” Truman said of her children, a boy and a girl 11 and 12 years old. “They were facing felonies” for stealing from a business, she said.

Luckily, “The people who take care of the business have decided not to press charges,” she said. She declined to give the name of the victim.

“But I don’t want (the children) to get away with it,” Truman said.” The two will stand at Tuscarawas and Wertz after school this week and Saturday afternoon.

The two children had little to say. The Repository opted not to use their names because of their ages and because they face no criminal charges.

The girl said she felt “dumb.” Why? “I did a dumb thing,” she said.

Mad at mom for the punishment? “Sort of,” she said. But it will give her pause in the future, and she feels lucky no charges were filed.

The boy said he felt “humiliated” by the public exhibition. But, “What I did was horrible,” he said.

The punishment isn’t going to have an effect on the future “because I’m not going to do it again,” he said.

He’s not mad at mom. “We deserve it,” he said.

The public confession isn’t the only punishment. “I’m giving them both community service of their own to do,” Truman said. The boy has 100 hours and the girl has 50 hours of service to perform. They’re going to clean up trash in the neighborhood and also give some help to the victim, she said.

Truman and the kids got support from passersby. “You might have made a mistake, but that’s awesome,” a woman driver shouted out her passenger window to the girl. “Good job, mom,” she told Truman.

Antoine Williams of Canton, father of four, walked up to shake Truman’s hand, and tell her, “someone’s got to do it.” He put a hand on the girl’s shoulder for support.

“I just want to commend you,” he told Truman. “As a parent, I really appreciate it.”

Truman said she wanted to make a lasting memory.

“This is just the fact that I have taught them better and I have raised them better,” she said.

“They know better.”

source: http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x1107518619/Kids-caught-stealing-then-punished-publicly

[Mortal Coil]

This mother was great. I wish either if my parents had the balls to properly punish my brother for stealing and breaking the law.

[FreeFall]

Ah the scarlet letter but on a white board. This mom's doing great and forget the morons trying to have the police say otherwise.

Would they rather she beat him into a bloody pulp? Would they rather she give up like most mothers and let him ruin his life? Would they rather she give up her rights as a parent and chuck him into the system? Be happy this mom loves her son enough to keep trying and not make him someone else's problem.

[huginnmuninn]

there are tons of stories like this if you look for them and i applaud all of the parents who do this because they are making sure that their children actually learn a lesson

[CourtingErmine]

Perfecto, the world needs more parents like this not shamed by their kids, and if they are shamed by them, they put that shame on the child. I love this.

[Jupiter]

nah that's all good.

plus it's in indiana so like 4 people will drive past him.

[TheBigUnit]

I just love these ideas

[Hypers]

To be honest I don't like these ideas.... How embarrassing would it be if you were that kid.... For once I thought family members support each other...

[Iron Man]

I would like to give that woman a medal and some ice cream.

[Dimitri]

To be honest I don't like these ideas.... How embarrassing would it be if you were that kid.... For once I thought family members support each other...

but would you ever do the crime again...she was at her wits end...I do not blame her one bit.

What would you have done in her instance?

[Iron Man]

For once I thought family members support each other...

So, supporting the kid's poor decisions fits in with that? Nah, that would just imply that stupidity runs in the family.

[CourtingErmine]

I would like to give that woman a medal and some ice cream.

Lol, this definitely. This is what parents all around the world should be doing to their bad kids taken over by crime. Although it wild lose the effect if it were done all the time, really good idea.

[Jamie1515]

I don't think she wen't too far, I think she was just teaching her Kid a life lesson, steps may have needed to be taken to make the kid realize that he's growing up and going into the real world and if he carries on he'll be locked up for a long while. I personally think the mother was being supportive, in a way that any mother should in that situation..

[emanual]

Shaming is an appropriate punishment for kids, but not for serious offenses like murder, rape, acting out on fantasies of pedophilia, etc.

[Lost in the Echo]

Sandeep wasn't implying anything, merely stating he'd goto prison if he was older. So please, no arguements.

Dude he wasn't arguing, he was being sarcastic because "in 2 years his tight ass would be thrown in prison" is funny because that implies he would get raped or be "jailbait" like Shadow stated.

As for the punishment, the mother was trying to teach her son a lesson and show him he needs to stop doing the bad shit he has been doing, she's doing that to keep him out of prison. Hopefully embarrassing the shit out of him in public will be enough to make him change his ways.

[Thepolice5291]

It was fair, But if she had've been sitting on her lazy ass at home and making him do it, That would have been to far. The parent should be able to take responsibility aswell

[Aves]

To be honest I don't like these ideas.... How embarrassing would it be if you were that kid.... For once I thought family members support each other...

That's the point. It's to be punished. Let's be honest, no teenager is going to be freaking out over community service, but their reputation is huge. I fully support this mother's thinking, I would do the same for my child. I'm not going to be the "best friend" parent. I'm going to have my time when I'm just telling them how it is.

[Hypers]

but would you ever do the crime again...she was at her wits end...I do not blame her one bit.

What would you have done in her instance?
Well... I don't mean that she shouldn't have punished them, they have to be punished for their incorrect behavior, but maybe in a much nicer way that would educate them the same way.

[Dimitri]

Well... I don't mean that she shouldn't have punished them, they have to be punished for their incorrect behavior, but maybe in a much nicer way that would educate them the same way.

Yet is states that it has been attempted and they have not been responsive to those punishments so mom took it into her own hands...

[NotYourSombrero]

Where I live I saw a kid standing on one of the busiest intersections holding a sign that read "Smoked pot, got caught. Look cool, NOT"

[West Coast Sheriff]

All I can say is WHAT A BITCH!!!!

[Abigballofdust]

Even though this may look great, I'm not really sure that it has any effect on the boy. I'm sorry not to have any psychology classes anymore cos I would've asked the teacher more about it.

[Cicero]

Why would this be bad? What's next, people are going to think that the government should choose how their parents punish their kids?

What I think is this is a great way for punishment and maybe this will teach him that it's not good to do all those things. If my son was someone who stole, lied, cheated, etc I don't think I would've been smart enough to think of this haha :D But if it got to a serious point, I would've probably talked to one of the police officers and requested that they arrest him, and let my son experience jail (with no one else in the cell though, don't want him to get hurt by other inmates :eek:

[josh_9]

That women was a genius! The level of embarassment that kid is probably feeling taught him a lesson!!

[Thunderstorm]

This is fine. The parent is punishing her child and giving discipline. ore parents should be like that.

[Dimitri]

All I can say is WHAT A BITCH!!!!

Why, how so...

If you can't to the time don't do the crime...simple...he fucked up and the punishment that he received, the community service was evidently not enough...

[Jess]

I think she did the right thing. She did not go far at all.