Woman forces stepdaughter to wear dowdy thrift store clothes as punishment for bullying

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239. Hello sebilan. A bit late to respond to your post here, but I do want to say

that my post did not mean that I "want a world where nobody ever feels bad about anything." To the contrary, I meant that as a parent I felt that it would always be preferable for the kid to get some internal personal understanding of what was wrong with some particular behavior, why it was destructive, hurtful, or non-functional. This would be more useful than simply subjecting the kid to a "punishment" that has to be endured because they have done something bad. As if you can "pay for" a wrong or hurtful action by enduring a punishment. Much better is to come to a real internal understanding of WHY it is wrong, and from that a personal commitment to behaving ethically.

This is very far from a world where nobody every feels bad about anything. It is in fact based on the idea that you come to truly feel bad about what you have done wrong, rather than simply paying for it by enduring a punishment.