Humiliate Me

Teenagers Savannah and Diana Monac were caught smoking, so their parents gave them a choice: be grounded for a month or “four Sundays of shame.” The girls chose shame, so the first Sunday consisted of standing in front of the New Brighton (Pa.) Middle School wearing bright green signs reading “I got caught smoking. Ain’t I a butt?” for three hours. The other three Sundays were to be spent in other locations. What lesson did the girls learn? “Don’t smoke because you might have to stand on the corner,” says Savannah, 14. And their parents? Nothing changed: they both are still smokers themselves. (AP) ...Which is how they got their finely tuned attitudes about shame.