He's getting the attention he wanted!

    I was at St. Charles Towne Center Mall yesterday, and I typically make it a point to avoid shopping anywhere on weekends because of the crowds.  I figure that if my hours are flexible enough, I can get my errands done during the week and there’s no reason to wait in long lines and contribute to the weekend throngs.

    At any rate, I had no choice but to be at the mall on Saturday.  I ran into a woman there at the food court who was disciplining her son.  Now, before you get all worked up, she wasn’t beating him, or yelling, or even talking to him for that matter.  Apparently he had gotten in trouble at school, so she created a punishment that she felt fit the crime.  She dragged his butt down to the mall and made him stand there in the food court all day long holding a sign that said:

"Please pray for me, I misbehaved in school."

    His mother said that he was acting up in school because he wanted the attention, and she was through with his antics.  Well, he DEFINATELY got the attention, and I’m sure more than a few of his friends ran into him that day (This was Saturday, after all, and she had apparently been there since morning).  I wonder if this will help solve the problem?  At the very least it’s a highly creative method of punishment, and I’m sure the young man will be thinking twice before he decides to embarass his parents (and himself!) by acting up again!