Stranger allegedly slaps crying child in store

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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    chime wrote:
    pjhawks wrote:

    ok i get it from all you parents - f me and my thoughts because i don't have children and children will act out and carry on and their really is nothing parents can do about it. there is no solution and im the ahole because your child is crying. i try to see the parents point of view and i understand your point of view to a point but can you at least acknowledge some of our points are valid and not act like our point of view is so foreign and 'ignorant' and 'ridiculous'? this is all i have to say on this because clearly whenever speaking to parents about children it strikes a nerve.

    You seem to presume everyone posting not seeing your point of view is a parent. I'm not a parent. I understand children cry for many reasons and sometimes the parents can't soothe them or need to ignore them to not encourage the behaviour.

    I just get on with my shopping ... while maybe feeling a little sorry for the parent who is probably more stressed by the crying then you are ;)


    agreed.

    however, restaurants and movie theatres, another story entirely. :evil: :x ;)



    in THIS situation tho...holy shit! as much as i loathe when children scream, that is just sooo wrong. he was arrested and deservedly so. i wonder just what type of punishment will be served?
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  • dunkman
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    decides2dream wrote:
    i wonder just what type of punishment will be served?

    his punishment should be him being forced to read this forum for a week.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Claireack
    Claireack Posts: 13,561
    My husband sometimes annoys me in the supermarket, can someone slap him for me?
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  • Phantom Pain
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    Claireack wrote:
    My husband sometimes annoys me in the supermarket, can someone slap him for me?

    Only if you cover up that belly button

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    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Only if you cover up that belly button

    Promise? Only I'm showing off my new scar, everyone in the real world is sick of looking at it now, that's why I've put it on here. I'm very proud of it!
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  • mrvedderson
    mrvedderson Posts: 784
    im a parent and all you need to do is get the kids attention, if words arent doing it a smack on the mouth wont do any harm, gets the eye contact you are after. there have been many times where i wanna treat others kids like mine, but i know i cant do that. and for the stranger to feel it is their place to step in is pretty hypocritical, like saying, dont bother me when no one was even paying attention to you.
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    comebackgirl wrote:
    If hearing a child crying in a Walmart is the worst thing that's happened to you all day...you're having a pretty damn good day. Get over it. And I mean...it's Walmart...is a crying child really the most disturbing thing you're gonna see? :lol:

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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    dunkman wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    i wonder just what type of punishment will be served?

    his punishment should be him being forced to read this forum for a week.



    so basically you are admitting then that you are a masochist? ;)
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    decides2dream wrote:
    dunkman wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    i wonder just what type of punishment will be served?

    his punishment should be him being forced to read this forum for a week.



    so basically you are admitting then that you are a masochist? ;)


    aren't all of us? ;) :P
  • JD Sal
    JD Sal Posts: 790
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    ATTENTION SHOPPERS!!!!!!

    "Will the parent's of the screaming child in aisle 5, please remove the 6 month old baby from the store. The Pearl Jam elitist's are trying to buy a 5th of Jack Daniels and some pretzels, and YOU are ruining their shopping experience"

    Just proves how utterly naive some people are! Now I can understand like some others have said, if you have a screaming child at the movie theater, library, or even a restaurant, then remove them from the situation if they won't calm down. But Walmart? People actually want me to remove my crying child from Walmart because it's ruining their shopping experience?!?! I hope that whoever is saying such nonsense has a kid of their own one day who throws a tantrum (or is genuinely tired, hungry, thirsty, sick, etc) while they are shopping at the supermarket. Let me see you ditch an entire cart full of groceries and take your 2 year old outside to teach them a lesson, as if that would actually do any good! Pure genious!
    mrvedderson wrote:
    im a parent and all you need to do is get the kids attention, if words arent doing it a smack on the mouth wont do any harm, gets the eye contact you are after. there have been many times where i wanna treat others kids like mine, but i know i cant do that. and for the stranger to feel it is their place to step in is pretty hypocritical, like saying, dont bother me when no one was even paying attention to you.

    I know of many psychologists and counselors that would disagree with your "won't do any harm"' comment.
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    JD Sal wrote:
    mrvedderson wrote:
    im a parent and all you need to do is get the kids attention, if words arent doing it a smack on the mouth wont do any harm, gets the eye contact you are after. there have been many times where i wanna treat others kids like mine, but i know i cant do that. and for the stranger to feel it is their place to step in is pretty hypocritical, like saying, dont bother me when no one was even paying attention to you.

    I know of many psychologists and counselors that would disagree with your "won't do any harm"' comment.

    yup. your reasoning (mrvedderson) is off. there is never any excuse or reason to "smack the child on the mouth". no matter how loud they scream. that statement is wrong on so many levels & i'm glad that you weren't my father.
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    What I found that's really amazing is that kids have all senses on all the time. I won't call it fright or flight, maybe just newness radar. Anyhoo, I was at a childcare and a kid was crying, whining, not happy, and I spoke softly to him, and he calmed down to my level. I'm not saying that could happen in all cases should the situation present itself to me again, but I was so happy that I could make that kid ok. I felt like a magician! I'm sure I treated myself to cake.

    Yep, I'm not a parent. But joy is contagious, eh?
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  • milarso
    milarso Posts: 1,280
    In a perfect world, yeah, we could all shop/live in peace without the noise of crying children.
    But come on- is it really that much of an inconvenience?
    I don't have any kids, and I'll admit, I've been in public situations where there is some kid wailing like a banshee, and it is irritating. But I'm not going to get too worked up over it, and I'm certainly not going to even dream about hitting the kid. Geez.
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  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    back in my day, my parents would give us a not-too-hard smack on the butt...and we turned out OK! they never smacked us in the mouth or anything like that, just on the butt--and we learned our lesson. Worse than that, however, was if you made Mom mad enough to cry...now THAT was the most awful punishment ever!!
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  • Cinnamon Girl
    Cinnamon Girl Posts: 1,854
    "WAAAAWAAAA....Mommy I want to go home!! I hate shopping!!" :cry:

    "WAAAAAWAAAA....I wish someone would shut that kid up! WAAAAAAA....my ears hurt!!" :cry:

    Maybe your mom should have let you learn to deal with your emotions and frustrations when you were a kid instead of spoiling you by giving you exactly what you wanted. Perhaps the result would be a less self righteous adult.
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  • Hawkshore
    Hawkshore Posts: 2,185
    edited September 2009
    Cinnamon Girl wrote:
    "WAAAAWAAAA....Mommy I want to go home!! I hate shopping!!" :cry:

    "WAAAAAWAAAA....I wish someone would shut that kid up! WAAAAAAA....my ears hurt!!" :cry:

    Maybe your mom should have let you learn to deal with your emotions and frustrations when you were a kid instead of spoiling you by giving you exactly what you wanted. Perhaps the result would be a less self righteous adult.

    Well said CG it is incredible how selfish some people can be!!!

    Now if it was in a nice restaurant or a movie theatre I would be more inclined to remove my son from the situation but in a Wal Mart or grocery store pleeeease!!! :roll:
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,964
    Hawkshore wrote:
    Cinnamon Girl wrote:
    "WAAAAWAAAA....Mommy I want to go home!! I hate shopping!!" :cry:

    "WAAAAAWAAAA....I wish someone would shut that kid up! WAAAAAAA....my ears hurt!!" :cry:

    Maybe your mom should have let you learn to deal with your emotions and frustrations when you were a kid instead of spoiling you by giving you exactly what you wanted. Perhaps the result would be a less self righteous adult.

    Well said CG is is incredible how selfish some people can be!!!

    Now if it was in a nice restaurant or a movie theatre I would be more inclined to remove my son from the situation but in a Wal Mart or grocery store pleeeease!!! :roll:

    so your child acts out and you do nothing to or can't stop it and others are the selfish ones - love parental logic.
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    That guy was UNBALANCED!!!!! That's the bottom line.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxIu4rjm7E

    :mrgreen:
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    norm wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxIu4rjm7E

    :mrgreen:
    :lol::lol:
    I remember seeing that---so funny.
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
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