No doubt. When your child throws a tantrum over not getting something, you ignore them because you don't want to reward the behavior. If they do something bad enough, you put them in timeout. At 2 years old, you can't threaten grounding or taking something away, because they can't comprehend it. We try to be careful with our kids to prevent them from melting down in public, but it's happened a few times. I get pissed when people make snarky comments about "quiet your kid". It's never happened to me, but I've seen people making that comment to other parents. If somebody hit my kid, I would beat the hell out of him and give that slap back 1000 times over.
Comments in a bulletin board on the interwebs aren't the same as crying, but if that's your opinion, so be it. You mean now that I am in my 30's... and if I am crying at WalMart? Why, yes. Yes. Slap ME and slap MY MOM. Why not? Lady_Di, if that was your kid, I can guarantee there would be no crying.
The worst public reproach I've gotten was a store clerk asking me to support my daughter's head while I carried her around the store. She was sleeping in my arms against my neck, so she didn't need any further support. It's annoying when people presume they know better what to do with your kids.
^ I agree. It's annoying... because strangers "think" they might know better than you... and sometimes they might be right by pointing out things we as parents fail to do... and you're willing to admit them... I'll say that as a parent myself... but... how did you handle it?
I flopped the baby's head all over the place, just to spite him. I felt bad when it popped off, but then I had to get out of there in a hurry. Don't worry, I managed to get the head back on later.
we don't keep our kids on a leash and we have an indoor/outdoor cat. yes, i know, i'm an inconsiderate b*stard. the other day some random woman started to tell my wife how she ought to be dealing with our children. my wife, in her strong austrian accent, preceded to vebally rip the woman's head off. i guarantee you that woman wil think twice next time she puts her nose were it doesn't belong.
Hmm..I take it that you don't care much for kids AND you have hinted that you used to post here. I wonder if you really are...nah, can't be but still... I'm thinking that TheBigAristotle is a certain character in a Ralph Macchio (sp?) movie
This is ridiculous, this guy should be smaked himself. But I do love how everyone in the thread claims they would beat this guy up if he did that to their kid... What if this guy is trained in martial arts and he actually whips your ass? What if a UFC fighter smacked your child, would you guys still pummel him? Or would you get pummeled along with your child? I just think its funny that if some old cracked out man smacked your child, you would attack him, but if some big badass dude smaked your child, you'd probably just call the cops on him.
Dude....Did you not see his picture? It is like someone else posted - he is a human version of Statler (or is that Waldorf) and believe me, I doubt he even knows what martial arts are. You ask him about "black belt" and he would probably whip his belt off which would lead to his pants dropping below his knees.
Hahaha. Oh you're so right. What if he had a knife? If the guy had a gun these people wouldn't talk so much smack. They're so stupid that they didn't think of the infinite scenarios of who might be hitting their kid before they started talking trash on an online forum.
My first impulse on seeing some stranger hit my children would be to protect my child from any further pain. I am woman enough to admit that a man like that would intimidate me. If I didn't think I could get him to stop hurting my child, I might look around for something I could use as a weapon. Unfortunately, despite my excellent knife skills, the knives you could find in Walmart would probably just bend - no high carbon stainless steel blades there With my luck this whole altercation would take place in the aisle with paper towels. I'm glad to see hitting someone else's kid is a felony.
I think I would be uneasy if a man that looked like that got close enough to my child to strike it. And if I was the child, and saw that face, I'd be screaming too.
