He had two ideas: first, to dispose of all her equipment; and second, to have her cut her hair short. The latter was the one the daughter opted for, and she attended class without a hair.
Everyone believes I went too far. “Her mother went absolutely nuts at me, claiming it will make her a bully’s target. I guess that’s the point, teach her compassion,” the father added.
He thought he had done the right thing, but nobody else thought so. Many individuals were kind enough to share their thoughts on the matter.
You should be ashamed of yourself for raising a bully kid, one commenter said. My guess is that this isn’t the first time you’ve ‘taught her a lesson’ by abusing and humiliating her.
“What you did has a name,” someone else said. What we term it is child abuse. It would have been fair to punish her by taking away her gadgets.
She should have been grounded as a kind of punishment. It is not justifiable to subject her to shame and violate her right to bodily autonomy. S
