The actions of a Florida mother have sparked a parenting debate after the woman and her teenage daughter stood near a busy intersection as the girl held a large sign that read: “I lied. I humiliated myself & my mother."

Witnesses spotted the mother and daughter standing on the median of Veterans Parkway and Santa Barbara Boulevard in Cape Coral on Saturday afternoon as cars whizzed by.

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“On our way home we witnessed parenting at its finest,” Ashley Atty posted on Facebook with a video of the mother and daughter walking along the median with the sign.

“I’m sure she’ll never lie again, because that was embarrassing,” Atty told WBBH-TV.

But some alarmed residents thought the tough love punishment was too “dangerous.”

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“You don’t place them in a dangerous spot like that in order to get some satisfaction out of what they did to you,” resident Randy Miller told the station.

A concerned woman eventually called Cape Coral police to the scene. Officers addressed the situation, noting that the mother had water nearby and that no one was hurt, the station reported.