So I saw this post on Instagram where a student (child) apparently had bad grades that went from A’s to F’s , so his parents shaved his head, took a picture of him crying and posted it on the internet to “teach him a lesson” . And to my surprise, there was actually people defending the parents saying that this is discipline and isn’t abuse. The majority of the people who commented, agreed that this is in fact child abuse. I don’t agree with the parents with shaving this poor child’s head and humiliating him because in my opinion, it isn’t going to make his grades any better by embarrassing him. I’m not a parent of any children that are in school but I definitely do not agree with this . Humiliation will lead to this child being bullied and knock his focus off even more.

Now don’t get me wrong I do believe in discipline and do agree that child abuse is mainly looked at as physical abuse but it doesn’t always have to be physical . Right? That child is going to suffer bullying and won’t be able to focus because his parents decided that humiliating him was a better route than reasoning with him privately and discussing the cause of his grades dropping. Some parents might agree that it’s just discipline and cover up child abuse as “discipline” cause I’ve been through abuse before and to me there’s a fine line between discipline and child abuse.

So What are y’alls views on this? Agree or disagree? Child abuse or discipline? What could have been a better way for the parents to go about this? Also if this has already been discussed let me know and I will delete it.