Once again like in the case of The Missing Pencils that I wrote about, we see bad discipline down to the point of humiliating punishment.

Some people say children learn from this. I say children's spirits are destroyed by this. If you have children and there are other spouses involved, that are step parents to your children, you need to try to be the one who handles the discipline as well as the well being of your children.

No, I am not saying all step parents are bad or that they should not discipline a child if it is necessary. Discipline is needed in every area of a child's life to keep them safe. Teachers must make decisions of discipline, babysitters must also, so must the child's grandparents. There are a number of people in a child's life that will have to influence them.

In all things the discipline should allow the child to understand what they did wrong and be aware enough to make better choices the next time a situation occurs with similar circumstances.

If it just telling the child they are wrong and they are bad then it is not discipline, it is in fact punishment. Punishment and discipline are very different things.

Punishment is used when someone breaks the law at an age where they know better and, they still keep doing the crime. Like Breaking and Entering, Assault, or Murder. Punishment is left up to the court system. It is the parents' responsibility to teach a child good discipline so they do not grow up and do things that will cause them to face punishment and or jail time.

In some cases it will take growing up and being put in jail before a person wakes up. No, that is not mom or dad's fault. It is just bad judgement on the child's part. When a kid gets to a certain age there is little you can do for them if they just keep making the wrong choices in life. No matter how much you love them.

Note: In our state the birth parent is allowed to make the decisions on how a child's hair is kept. Foster parents even need permission from the birth parent to have a child's hair trimmed.

Thus due to the fact that Breeanna's stepmom cut the child's hair without permission from either birth parent was taken in consideration and judged to be emotional abuse. She was found guilty.