Recently, a mother in Murray, Utah got an email from her stepdaughter’s 4th-grade teacher that her child had been harassing another student for the last three weeks, making fun of that other student’s clothes. It had gotten to the point that the kid who she’d been bullying didn’t want to come to school anymore.
As soon as she heard about it, the mother spoke to her daughter but saw no remorse, so she decided to get more creative.
She took a trip to the thrift store and bought a few cheap clothes that she knew her daughter would hate. When the girl woke up the next morning a terrible outfit and old sneakers were laid out for her to wear…
She wore the embarrassing ensembles for two days.
Of course, the child psychologist who was contacted for this story frowned on the mother’s approach, saying that it would lead to anger not empathy. But after the embarrassing two days, the daughter reported that she had heard kids talking about her behind her back and that she wasn’t going to make fun of other kids anymore, “because it’s stupid and it’s mean. It hurts them.”
Somehow, amid the insanity of having four infants, mom found time to get the camera out and record dad being just the comedian that these babies wanted to see…
When her daughter Emma turned five recently, photographer Jaime Moore wanted to celebrate with a creative photo session. The ideas she saw online were almost all too Disney and princessy for Moore’s taste, so she came up with her own idea to teach her daughter about real-life women whose accomplishments are worth emulating…
Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects 1 boy in 3,600 and is 100% fatal. One man whose young son is enduring the disease has started a fund to raise money for research in the hopes of finding a cure for his boy before it’s too late.
One of his money-raising tactics for Harrison’s Fund has been to run this provocative and bluntly disquieting ad…
Needless to say, it’s raised some eyebrows. But I imagine, as the father of a child who is definitely going to die from a currently incurable sickness, he doesn’t really care if his ad bothers you or me as long as it works.
That’s not how he comes across, though. Here he is in a interview talking about this ad and his efforts in general…
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