A Tennessee mom is drawing praise and criticism after sharing the punishment she gave her daughter for allegedly bullying a deaf child. While many viewers commended the mother for taking the behavior seriously, others questioned whether public humiliation is an effective way to teach compassion.
Posted to TikTok by user @mackzaddy_28, the video shows the creator driving alongside her daughter as the girl runs down the road.
“You wanna bully people for something they can’t fix, you better run,” the Tennessee mother says before continuing to urge her daughter forward. “Hurry up. You wanna bully, let’s bully.”
The caption provides additional context, with the creator claiming her daughter had made fun of another child for being deaf. “When your child is a bully and makes fun of your other child for being deaf at birth. They run,” she wrote. “She went less than half mile, but she will remember this.”
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Many commenters praised the mother’s response, arguing she was teaching her daughter an important lesson. “Thank you, you may not know this but you just saved two children, one from being a bully and another from being bullied,” one commenter wrote.
Another added, “I’m so thankful the people who have been bullied and survived are parents now. I’m so thankful we have the maturity to discipline the bullying out of our children.” Others, particularly parents of children with disabilities, also applauded the punishment. “As a mother of a teenage girl with a disability, this is top notch A+ parenting,” one viewer commented.
Not everyone agreed, however. “Wouldn’t see me doing that,” one person wrote. Another questioned why the moment needed to be shared online, asking, “And we’re putting this on the internet because?” While others argued the punishment missed the lesson it was intended to teach. “This does not work. You’re just using the same tactic. Teach compassion not humiliation,” one commenter wrote.
In the end, many viewers agreed the girl’s behavior needed to be addressed. Though, judging by the comments, the real debate was whether this was the appropriate way to do it.
