Thread: We've all said it.

I know I have said it to mysef, and even "kidded" mean spiritedly about it to family or friends I was with....but to actually slap a strangers child? This guy is so amazingly lucky this was not my family.

Stranger accused of slapping crying child at store - Yahoo! News

Wow....... I totally agree with yah there smokelaw if that were my family on the recieving end there would be 2 people being charged.... makes me wonder what the womans response/action was....

Originally Posted by smokelaw1

I know I have said it to mysef, and even "kidded" mean spiritedly about it to family or friends I was with....but to actually slap a strangers child? This guy is so amazingly lucky this was not my family.

Stranger accused of slapping crying child at store - Yahoo! News

It takes a village?? Oops, wrong village.

Ok guys.


Number one, if all the kid was doing "wrong" was crying at a store, that is not a big deal. The 61 year old codger could simply have left the vicinity. He's a "big boy", a two year old is not.

No need for corporal punishment for simply crying.

Who knows exactly what the child was crying about? Hmm? Anyone? Maybe the child got her finger stuck in something in the shopping cart? Maybe she was in pain, maybe she was simply throwing a fit.

If the child was being beligerent, destructive, etc, perhaps that would cross a line. But simply crying?

The parents who have responded to the thread at least are "field tested", and have an experience of what it is like to try and deal with a 2 year old in public. For those who do not have children, but have plenty of ideas about how it "should be done"...you just wait and see what it is like when your time comes.....

There is alot more to effective discipline than spankings, etc.

Originally Posted by Seraphim

There is alot more to effective discipline than spankings, etc.

Psychotic, eyes bulging screaming works. Especially when followed up with a good whack on the butt.

"As of today, she has really forgotten about it," Mathis [the victim's aunt] said. "She's been playing."

Forgive and forget, eh? Not her mother, not the perpetrator, and certainly not us! Children, sheesh!

Another fun line from the article:

A police report says after the stranger hit the girl at least four times, he said: "See, I told you I would shut her up."

wow...

If he'd risen hand against one of my girls he'd have lost it. And I believe in spanking. I too agree 100% that parents are responsible for what's wrong with kids. My girls overall are very good. 3yo and 20mo.

as far as spanking, I think many people are afraid to do today what people did 30 years ago. when I was a kid my mom would spank me in public, no hesitation. Now people worry, even I worry, that somebody will see, call CPS and make a scene out of it. idiots everywhere.

as everybody that has had little girls knows though (I don't have boys so don't know if it is the same) sometimes they are just like women, they cry for no reason. they don't even know why their crying. my older one once in a while will start crying and she doesn't even know why.

I've seen some crazy stuff in public though. my wife saw a mother tell her little boy that if he didn't stop throwing a fit he wasn't getting an ice cream, she got it for him anyways.

Red
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My parents were pretty good disciplinarians, my dad more so because he was consistent, fair and never punished out of anger. but they would feel free to spank other kids visiting the house too.

It was probably Mark.

That is one good samaratin. Based on his photo though he might just get the chair! Looks like a serial killer in training.

Originally Posted by JokiJo

It was probably Mark.

And the kid was you