Essay On Shaming

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Maybe they did not listen when to you when you grounded them or learn their lesson when you took everything away from them but, they are sure to never do it again once they feel embarrassed. This is the use of shaming. Shaming is a social emotion that is used as a way to provoke a person into transforming their bad behaviors or habit into good and accepted ones. This action is used on children by parents, parents themselves as well as to help promote healthy living and well-being. It is seen in various forms even in the justice system. There are many opinions against shaming but many of those opinions are on the effects of abused shaming and not on shaming its self. When applied right with the perfect amount of force, shaming can be very effective in evolving society. Adolescence’s go through stages at their teen point of their lives. They are curious, defiant and insolent. A parent’s main concern is to ensure that their child is protected from hazardous, troublesome situations especially, from ones that can involve self-harm and carry on into future self-harm. A parent has little approved tactics to act upon once they have already taken away their child privileges, grounded them and explained what they did wrong but that child still continues to act out. From being a teen myself, we must understand that the mindset of a teen is almost always focused on not being embarrassed. Since most teen are self conscious about their reputation they are less likely to rebel again once they realize that their reputation is in jeopardy. That feeling of distress is so unbearable and uneasy to forget that it overcomes any urge to something even remotely similar to what was shamed upon ever again. When Renee and Gentry Nickell tried everything to... ... middle of paper ... ...at shaming” a form of bullying because it can degrade a person but, if you see a person in lousy health, it would mean more to them to tell them than to allow them to continue putting their health at risk. What society calls, “fat shaming” is nothing but guiding someone’s health in the right direction by creating a devotion to want better within that person. Confusing bullying and shaming is not uncommon in this day and age. The goals for bullying and shaming are very different from one another. Shaming is and should be used in a way to help alter someone’s negative behavior and prevent it from expanding from just a phase to a lifetime. Bully’s only goal is to make someone feel unwanted over jealousy or for no reason at all. The bullier is usually someone not as close to the victim and leaves emotional scars rather than a life lesson. Shaming has teaching purposes

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