There is a growing trend of parents practicing some tough love to teach today's kids a little something called respect. There was the mom who made her daughter sell her iPod online while holding up a sign listing her sins as a cyberbully and the Indianapolis mom who made her son hold up a sign calling himself a thief and the Florida parents who had their daughter hold a sign up in public about how disrespectful she is. That's right, these folks are using public shaming, sometimes with the help of the Internet, to set their kids straight. And let me tell you something about what they're doing: it's disgraceful.



Pictured above: a girl whose future therapist will just sit there and cry.

Now, I know what you're saying: "You don't even know them" or "Have you asked a child psychologist?" or "Damn, I was hoping this was going to be a funny list about famous boobs," but frankly, I'm disgusted. This trend is nothing short of reprehensible, and as someone who has spent a little over a decade immersed in both parenting and the Internet, I know they don't go together. Here are three reasons why ...