How dare this father get away with humiliating his 3-year-old daughter by making her wear a poster around her neck which read, “I pooped in the shower and daddy had to clean it up. I hereby sign this as permission to use in my yearbook senior year.”

First of all this was NOT funny and secondly it was “highly irresponsible”, according to top parenting expert Dr. Phil Dembo.

“Parents are supposed to create a safe place for children to grow and ‘practice’ their life without ridicule or shame,” Dr. Dembo tells HollywoodBaby. What could this father have been thinking posting something on the Internet that would last well beyond the intended effect?!”

“This 3-year-old girl has just learned from her own father that it is truly not safe to be herself, to make mistakes and to have privacy in her own home. If this father exploited his child for his two minutes of fame, shame on him. If this father truly thought this was an effective form of discipline to teach his daughter to not poop in the shower, shame on him again,” says Dr. Dembo.

“If this father doesn’t understand his purpose to protect his daughter’s growth and give her a safe place to be herself, this girl has no chance growing up with any healthy sense of self.”

Also where was the little girl’s mother in all of this? Did she not have a voice? If she went along with it, then shame on her as well!

If the father thought his daughter posing with the poster would be a funny memory, then he should have kept it ONLY for his family and close friends to see, NOT the entire world! What a jerk!

Not to mention, his actions were emotionally abusive! A parent does not expose his or her child to ridicule like this. This father needs major therapy and parenting skills.

In the end, like Dr. Dembo pointed out, this clueless father didn’t shame his daughter, he just embarrassed himself!

What do YOU think, HollyMoms? Was this father irresponsible?

–Sandra Clark

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A father has caused quite a fury, after posting a picture of his 3-year-old daughter on the Internet.  After pooping in the shower, the father made the little girl pose with a sign hanging around her neck confessing to the stinky mess. Whether he was joking or not, the dad is now under fire!

The sign read, “I pooped in the shower and daddy had to clean it up. I hereby sign this as permission to use in my yearbook senior year.” The father’s decision to expose this picture to millions on the Internet has sparked viral controversy!

The unnamed father posted the picture on Reddit under the username Jagknowny. Apparently he thought it was funny, but public reaction has been anything but positive. One furious blogger responded with this comment, “You don’t make a child tough and resilient by having her parents, who are meant to be the two people in the world she can trust absolutely, set out to embarrass her in the most public of settings. That makes a child insecure, because it teaches her she can’t trust the people closest to her.”

Another annoyed blogger wrote, “Someone needs to hang a sign on him for being a terrible father that exploits his poor toddler daughter.”

In response the father joked that his daughter could sue him for ‘defecation’.

Was this cruel of the dad? What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers?