Over the past couple of years, I've noticed an odd parenting trope coming out, in which toddlers and small children wear signs around their necks with their usual childhood mistakes and messes written on them and what their punishments are (some of them including promises to have the photo reprinted in their school yearbooks or the like). Then the parents post them on the web.
I don't have children, nor do I intend to have any. So why am I horrified at this disrespect to children's sense of dignity and their potential professional futures? Will colleges and employers understand that they were the victims of questionable parenting? Or will it be considered a mark against them when they apply to university? As of right now, employers and colleges judge their accepting of us by what we post on the web - and many of us are not passing the bar because of it.
I'm really curious what's behind this need to globally embarrass one's children and potentially ruin their lives and self-esteem. I would have committed suicide if my parents had done this.
I don't have children, nor do I intend to have any. So why am I horrified at this disrespect to children's sense of dignity and their potential professional futures? Will colleges and employers understand that they were the victims of questionable parenting? Or will it be considered a mark against them when they apply to university? As of right now, employers and colleges judge their accepting of us by what we post on the web - and many of us are not passing the bar because of it.
I'm really curious what's behind this need to globally embarrass one's children and potentially ruin their lives and self-esteem. I would have committed suicide if my parents had done this.
