Parent shaming

[Bigred_inSD]

With the alligator event in Orlando, and the zoo in Cincinnati there has been tons of parent shaming on social media. Do you think things like the internet make parenting harder with all the "breast is best" and how some formula parents are attacked, and screen time for kids, ong many other issues.

 

[NUance]

Every parent wants to keep their kids safe and try to bring them up right. But you can't shield them from every conceivable danger. You'd be doing them no favor if you did. So parents walk the fine line of protecting their kids while at the same time trying to give them enough freedom to live life and learn how to survive.

As for the gator attack in Florida, It wasn't reasonably foreseeable that a gator would attack that kid while wading along a man-made beach at a Disney resort. It was a terrible tragic accident, but it's absolutely wrong to fault the parents. How would a kid turn out if the parents tried to avoid every remote danger during his youth? "No son, you can't go out and play ball because you might get hit by a meteorite."

 

[knapplc]

No parent can be "shamed" by the internet. Nobody is forcing them to read facebook or reddit or twitter.

 

[BigRedBuster]

No parent can be "shamed" by the internet. Nobody is forcing them to read facebook or reddit or twitter.

That's the way it should be. However, unless you are living under a rock, it's almost impossible to not be exposed to something that becomes a hot topic on social media. And, I don't even care if they do see it directly. Attacking them or shaming them in the middle of their tragedy is disgusting.

 

[Red Dead Redemption]

No parent can be "shamed" by the internet. Nobody is forcing them to read facebook or reddit or twitter.

Maybe not, but as the frenzy increases, the lunatics take it a step further and start contacting them directly and harassing them and those around them.

The internet is an information medium with similarities to newspapers, radio, and television. Shaming someone via Twitter. Facebook or message boards may not be legally libelous, but when legitimate news mediums pick that up and report "what people are saying", it accomplishes the same thing

 

[RedSavage]

 

[JJ Husker]

No parent can be "shamed" by the internet. Nobody is forcing them to read facebook or reddit or twitter.

So potentially causing parents additional pain when it appears to be unfounded and wholly unwarranted is okay? Just because nobody is forcing them to read some anonymously posted inane comment on HB or some other social media? Where's the compassion?

 

[Enhance]

It's a short video, but worth the watch. It sums up my opinions on parenting quite nicely, even though I'm not a parent yet myself.

The terrible thing about the gator attack, or any other relatively high profile story like it, is people use it as a soap box. I find it best in these kinds of situations to keep my mouth shut because I wasn't there and I'm not those people.

But, I can all but guarantee something - I'm sure these two parents, while on vacation at an incredibly expensive beach resort, thought the last thing that would happen is their boy being attacked by an animal. Attacked, particularly, in an area that did not provide sufficient warning that there may be dangerous creatures in the water. I don't care if it's "Florida" or not. And one of the most horrific parts of the whole story is the father's attempt to save his son's life.

People do a lot of things in life not expecting the worst to happen.