tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909575150882551215.post5375762827317845930..comments2024-02-12T08:13:45.983-05:00Comments on Green Grandma: Wendy Bell, you've gone too far.Green Grandmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988134199408897833noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909575150882551215.post-73616271025874945422015-08-11T17:11:14.934-04:002015-08-11T17:11:14.934-04:00We all bear scars from our childhood, I fear. If n...We all bear scars from our childhood, I fear. If not from our parents, then from other adults, siblings or classmates. We can move on, but the scars are still there.Green Grandmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12988134199408897833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909575150882551215.post-72993801170036389142015-08-11T16:38:26.825-04:002015-08-11T16:38:26.825-04:00Oh Hanna, I didn't know a child jumped to her ...Oh Hanna, I didn't know a child jumped to her death cause her father cut her hair off. I experienced that as a child. My father cut my hair at the top of my forehead cause it was in my eyes. We didn't have money to go to the hair dresser for haircuts. We had no hair gadgets to tie it up or pin it up. I had to go to school like that and I looked like a freak. I hated my child hood and wouldn't ever want a child to experience that. We need to build up those we love not tear them down. Today at close to 60 years of age I still deal with the effects of my parents.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909575150882551215.post-44524079587251187312015-08-11T16:03:07.045-04:002015-08-11T16:03:07.045-04:00Thank you for your input, Alena. It is not my inte...Thank you for your input, Alena. It is not my intention to tear down Wendy in general, but to simply call attention to how damaging her post really is. Thousands follow her and many will now feel it's acceptable to do the same thing (whether it's the soap in the mouth or public shaming or both). That concerns me. But I don't want to tear down any of the good she does as a mother. Many of us are good moms, but we fail in one way or another. That's how I feel about Wendy in this instance.Green Grandmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12988134199408897833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909575150882551215.post-69876618894760939302015-08-11T15:42:16.212-04:002015-08-11T15:42:16.212-04:00Well, I'll comment on it - washing a child'...Well, I'll comment on it - washing a child's mouth out with soap (or using hot sauce on the tongue) is legally considered child abuse in most states, and people have lost their children for doing it. I'm speaking not only as a mother who is OUTRAGED at the idea that anyone would consider putting caustic chemicals or a food substance that can literally burn your skin off into a child's mouth as a punishment, but also as a former abused child. This is absolutely NOT OKAY.<br /><br />To your actual complaint about public shaming, I absolutely agree --- it is not acceptable to shame your child in general, but to do so publicly is unconscionable. I'll go farther than you on this, too --- the fact that she did this, that she both assaulted her child with this specific punishment and that she publicly shared it to shame him, means that while she may well love her child, she is not a fantastic mother. Good mothers do not deliberately hurt and shame their children. Can she change and be a fantastic mother? Sure! But right now, behaving this way, she isn't one. That's the plain truth of it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15784012926662729935noreply@blogger.com