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Online shaming to discipline kids cuts both ways 網路公開羞辱孩子的 處罰方式引起正反意見 Parents going viral with ugly haircut videos shaming kids 父母為小孩剪醜陋髮型並拍攝影片形成一股風潮 Russell Fredrick's middle son was 12 when he wouldn't quit playing around in class and ignoring his homework, so the barber picked up his clippers and cut off his hair. But it wasn't just any cut. It was a complete shave intended as a form of discipline when other tactics failed to work. "After I shaved him bald, I told him that if things continued I would get more creative with each cut," said Fredrick. "But I never had to because he straightened up his act." Fredrick and his son — one of three — are success stories in a social media trend: parents taking electric razors to the heads of their misbehaving teens to create ugly cuts as a form of punishment, then publicly posting it on various social media platforms. 羅素弗雷德里克十二歲的二兒子，在班上總是不停玩耍而不寫功課，於是身為理髮師的爸爸拿起了剪刀，開始為兒子理髮。然而，這並不是一般的剪髮，這是在其他方法都派不上用場的時候，一種特殊的懲罰方式。弗雷德里克說：「在我把他剃成光頭之後，我告訴他，如果他再這麼調皮，我會想出更有創意的理髮點子。然而，我再也不用這麼做，因為他之後就學乖了。」在這項社群媒體的熱潮中，父母拿起了電動剃刀，幫他們頑皮的孩子剃出了一頭醜陋的髮型，做為一種對他們的懲罰，接著還把影片上傳到各個社群媒體平台。弗雷德里克和他三個兒子中的老二，就是一項成功的案例。 The spate of ugly-cut videos over the last six months or so has lit up debate over public shaming as discipline and fits into a broader trend of parents using social media video to humiliate their kids online, from yelling and screaming to smashing their computers or phones for infractions like bad grades or breaking curfews — to outright corporal punishment. Clinical psychologist Claudia Shields of the Chicago School of Professional Psychiatry has helped parents find healthy ways of disciplining their children based on behavioral research. She's far from convinced that public shaming works. "The most effective ways of changing behavior, as surprising as it may seem, (is to) not involve any form of punishment. I prefer discipline based on positive reinforcement. Many parents think that these are 'weaker' forms of punishment, but over and over, we find that this is more effective," she said. 醜陋髮型影片的風潮持續約半年，這種讓孩子在眾人面前感到羞愧的懲罰方式引起了一番爭論。此外，也有父母因為小孩成績不佳或太晚回家而對他們大吼大叫、砸爛他們的電腦或手機，甚至是進行體罰，再把過程拍攝成影片，上傳至社群網站，藉此使小孩在網路上顏面無光，而這種做法更形成了一股廣泛的風潮。芝加哥專業心理學學院的臨床心理學家克羅蒂亞薛爾茲，參考行為研究來協助許多父母找出更符合身心靈健康的方式來教養小孩，而她不怎麼相信公開使小孩丟臉的懲罰方式能發揮任何效果。她說：「令人驚訝的是，要改變行為最有效的方式，是不採取任何形式的處罰，我比較傾向於正面鼓勵的教育手段。許多父母認為這是『軟弱』的懲罰形式，不過一次次下來，我們發覺這麼做更為有效。」 Much debate has been made over the recent death of a teenage girl who killed herself in Washington. She committed suicide not long after a video was shared online, showing her father scolding her after her hair was cut short. Police said, however, that the girl's death appears unrelated to the video and the father didn't share it on social media himself. 近期美國華盛頓一名少女自殺的事件引起了許多激辯，她是在頭髮被剪短、並且被爸爸責罵的影片上傳網路後不久自殺。然而，警方表示，女孩的死似乎與影片本身無關，且影片也不是由她爸爸上傳至網路。 In recent weeks, there's been a curious, positive backlash to the bad hair videos, with far happier endings than the tears or downcast eyes of the young recipients. Some copycats have put up videos pretending they're going to do the deed only to hug it out with their sons instead. "There's no way in the world I would ever embarrass my son like that," said Wayman Gresham, a 45-year-old father of four in Florida. He created one of the parodies with his 12-year-old Isaiah and put it on Facebook on June 6. It's been viewed there more than 21 million times and shared around the Internet. "Good parenting is letting your child know that you loved him regardless of what they are and who they are and showing them the way by example," Gresham implores in the video. 近幾週來，醜陋髮型的影片開始出現較為新奇且正面的回應，比起過去總是看到年輕孩子受傷的眼淚或者垂頭喪氣的眼神，現在開始出現許多開心的結局。有些模仿的人放上影片，假裝他們即將進行懲罰的舉動，而真正的目的卻只是要和他們的兒子擁抱和解。四十五歲、住在佛州的魏曼葛雷斯漢養育四名孩子，他說：「我才不可能像那樣羞辱我的兒子。」他和十二歲的兒子以賽亞製作了一段詼諧的模仿影片，並在六月六日上傳至臉書，觀看次數已超過兩千一百萬次，且透過網路分享至世界各地。葛雷斯漢在影片中說出了他的請求：「良好的教養方式是讓你的孩子知道，無論他們是怎麼樣的人，你還是一樣愛他們，並且以實際行動表現出來。」 Phillip Scott is an oil and gas industry worker in Houston, a YouTuber as well as a parent of four. "A grown man I know said, 'Hey, I'm glad my dad did (the hair punishment) because I was really getting into trouble,'" Scott said. "Hair is a big thing, but it will grow back … Are we going to have the parents do the discipline or the police do the discipline? I prefer the parents." 菲利浦史考特是休士頓一名石油及天然氣工人，同時也是 YouTube 影音部落客和四名孩子的父親，他說：「我認識的一個大人說：『嘿，我很慶幸我爸這麼做了（醜陋髮型懲罰），因為我當時可能真的會惹出大麻煩。』頭髮的確非常重要，但是頭髮會再長出來…我們是要讓父母來進行懲罰，還是讓警察來執行懲罰呢？我比較希望是父母。」