Although we all may not agree on the exact same ways to discipline our kids, most can agree that it should be up to each parent to decide what's best. But one dad from Pasadena, Texas, is drawing attention for his nontraditional tactic: sheer embarrassment. He's having the last laugh at his disrespectful son after he threatened to walk the boy outside to the bus in his mother's dress … and then delivered on his promise. Photos of the dad's daring punishment have since gone viral, though some are calling this type of extreme embarrassment "cruel."
Joseph Blakeney wanted to teach his 11-year-old son an important lesson, after the boy was caught giving his mom some serious attitude.
According to The Inquisitr, to combat his son's rude behavior, Joseph threatened to walk the boy to his school bus stop wearing one of his wife's dresses.
Of course, Joseph's son didn't really believe his dad would make good on his threat, but in a Facebook post that has since been deleted, Joseph posted a photo of himself in his wife's dress and wrote, "When you want to treat your mom bad in the morning you get walked to the bus stop by dad in a pretty black dress."
According to ABC 13, Joseph waved goodbye to his son as he got on the bus and everyone on the bus saw him.
“He thought I wouldn’t do it," the dad wrote on Facebook. "Bet he will act better now."
Some people online LOVED Joseph's punishment as it's every parent's right to embarrass their kids, they argued.
One commenter said she would have walked right past Joseph if he were her dad.
Nothing to see here!
And one person reminisced fondly about all the times she embarrassed her kids in the past.
Precious memories.
But not everyone is laughing. Some argue that "shaming" your child is the exact wrong way to get him to behave.
Psychologist Barbara Greenberg spoke with Yahoo Lifestyle and warned that, in general, although embarrassing your kids when they misbehave may seem harmless, it might be doing more harm than good.
“You teach your children nothing by shaming them,” she explained. “In fact, what you do is you make them sad, and you make them more prone to engage in other kinds of problematic behavior.”
Instead, she recommended encouraging your child to do “repair work” towards fixing their specific transgression.
But some parents online just weren't feeling Dr. Greenberg's advice.
"Nobody ever died of embarrassment," one person wrote.
And someone else added that there's nothing "cruel" about a dad walking his son to the bus in a dress.
We could all probably agree that a man wearing a dress isn't shameful. But of course, to an 11-year-old boy, anytime your parents show up at school, or in this case the bus stop, it would totally be the cause for a meltdown.
It just goes to show you. Always mind your manners, kids!
