Child Shaming Sounds Like This

• Moralizing
“Good girls don’t behave like this!”

• Comparing with others
“Why can’t you be more like them”?

• Shaming on the basis of gender
“Stop crying like a girl and be a man!”

• Putting down
“You are such a cry baby.”

• Questioning competency
“You can never do anything right!”

• Shaming on the basis of age
“Big girls don’t cry!”