Stranger allegedly slaps crying child in store

mrvedderson

josevolution wrote:

mrvedderson wrote:

whats wrong with teaching a child that if you act like an ass in public, there are plenty of people around that will set you straight, i would rather my child learn it young than when he gets older and thinks he knows everything, then just gets the shit stomped out of him for being annoying and whiney. and my kids love me. they also would rather take a swat than stand in the corner, and i for one agree. most things arent worth that much time invested.

so you would be ok if a total stranger smacked your kid across the face :?: ..

yes, i would, then i would look at my kid and tell him "i told you people dont like to hearing pointless crying"

pearljgirl2010

comebackgirl wrote:

Have you seen this site: http://www.peopleofwalmart.com ?

I think that might be worse punishment than getting slapped by a stranger! What could that poor little girl have done to deserve that kind of treatment? :? :P

very true!! I gotta ask, how the heck did you come across that website???

catefrances

so anyways... i was in the store friday with the toddlermonster.. shes just about to turn 3.. and she decides shes gonna sing at the top of her lungs. my immediate thought dear jammers was you lot and this thread. and because of that i laughed and looked at her.. she looked at me and smiled clearly thinking i was encouraging her, she kept on singing. unfortunately there wasnt a stranger close enough to slap her for me, so in my bestest sweetest small child appropriate voice i asked her to ssh and told her she cant sing that loud. then i thought why the hell cant she sing if she wants to. but by then itd turned into a game and she was laughing and then she spotted the books. peace was restored and she amused herself for the duration of the store visit reading to herself.

Heineken Helen

Jennytree wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

maybe the solution is not taking your child grocery shopping.

If there is nobody to mind the child, how do you expect the shopping get done?! Starve them to death?!

why not? That'll teach em not to cry in public

Heineken Helen

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

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!!

Agreed... if the pc brigade hadn't made it so parents couldn't smack their kids, we wouldn't have the problem with teens that we have today... they're little fuckers, we were taught respect, there's none of that anymore.

I love how this makes the news... the child's face was a little red and this makes worldwide news? :roll: gimme a break, he did warn her to shut the kid up... man was probably just having a shit day and then a screaming kid to add to it... it could happen to any of us :twisted:

Heineken Helen

Hawkshore wrote:

so your child acts out and you do nothing to or can't stop it and others are the selfish ones - love parental logic.

Look obviously I'm going to try to minimize the inconvenience but if he won’t stop and we need to shop you will have to deal with it!

What should I do not feed my family because of the inconvenience to you??? .......Again who is being selfish here!!![/quote]
You... ever heard of online shopping

some of us don't have kids so we don't have to deal with that shit, why should we shut up and deal with other people's shit?

Heineken Helen

dawng wrote:

I can hardly believe this thread...

Terrible, terrible thing for someone to hit any child - especially someone else's child! :twisted:

I'm not even going to get started on those complaining about children crying in a grocery store :roll:

why 'especially' someone elses child?

comebackgirl

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

comebackgirl wrote:

Have you seen this site: http://www.peopleofwalmart.com ?

I think that might be worse punishment than getting slapped by a stranger! What could that poor little girl have done to deserve that kind of treatment? :? :P

very true!! I gotta ask, how the heck did you come across that website???

someone e-mailed it to me yesterday and I thought it was very fitting for this thread!

comebackgirl

norm wrote:

comebackgirl wrote:

Have you seen this site: http://www.peopleofwalmart.com ?

After seeing that, I'm wonder what kind of parent would bring their kid to Walmart in the first place :P Seriously...there are A LOT of scary things going on in that place, I think a screaming kid is the least of everyone's worries.

this guy...


should have checked this out...


:shock:

I think maybe he did...but it's just not the quality he needed! :?

Heineken Helen

BhagavadGita wrote:

A few good smacks never hurt you? I disagree. Your parents behavior was about them losing control and hitting you rather than finding a more civilized way to nip the situation in the bud. Now you believe hitting is ok?

seriously? YOU disagree that a few good smacks never hurt HIM? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :roll:

A few good smacks never hurt quite a lot of us but taught us more... taught us about consequences for our actions, kids today haven't got a clue that all actions have consequences. Standing in a corner for 30 seconds isn't gonna teach a kid anything.

mrvedderson

Heineken Helen wrote:

BhagavadGita wrote:

A few good smacks never hurt you? I disagree. Your parents behavior was about them losing control and hitting you rather than finding a more civilized way to nip the situation in the bud. Now you believe hitting is ok?

seriously? YOU disagree that a few good smacks never hurt HIM? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :roll:

A few good smacks never hurt quite a lot of us but taught us more... taught us about consequences for our actions, kids today haven't got a clue that all actions have consequences. Standing in a corner for 30 seconds isn't gonna teach a kid anything.

amen

Claireack

When I was a kid I got smacked. I don't agree that it 'never did me any harm', it just lost its effect. I remember at about 15 I was getting a bollicking from my step-mother about some terrible misdemeanor I had done, probably had a biscuit without asking, she slapped me so hard that I really put on the wailing and crying, she got so panicked that she phoned my dad at work thinking she'd really hurt me. It hadn't, I couldn't have given a shit.

I have probably smacked my son in total about 3 times in 12 1/2 years, these were reflex reactions that were due to him doing something that I panicked about like him running into the road. I regretted jumping into a learned reflex.

I always found that when he was little distraction was the best thing for in the supermarket, the fruit section being the 1st aisle was great, we went through many packets of grapes, then we'd pick up a french baguette, plus constant chatting about what we were doing. Things weren't perfect but when he recently started refusing to come with me and wanted to stay home with his dad I kinda missed him, but I suppose he was getting too big for the little chair in the shopping trolley.

youngster

pjhawks wrote:

Drowned Out wrote:

A couple of common themes in this thread, for sure...
Lack of empathy...
Concerned citizen syndrome....

pjhawks - karma's a bitch man...hope you're not flying anytime soon, lest you be surrounded by toddlers with ear problems....then you can demand that we remove the kids from the plane :roll: I'll be behind you, kicking your seat the whole flight

9 times out of 10, the parent is doing their best to get out of the situation without either perpetuating the behaviour, or having to risk doing it all again by abandoning what they're shopping for. well....maybe 6 times out of 10 at Wal Mart.

I've always tried to empathize with parents in these situations, even before I had kids. It is WAY easier to do once you've experienced it...and once you HAVE experienced it, you could kiss the people that give you a look that says "I have kids of my own, I understand"....and people like pjhawks, who give you a look that says, "shut that fucking brat up, I'm looking for a lowest price guarantee" are risking being unleashed upon with the full frustrated fury of a parent coping with an irrational, screaming child. One of these days I am going to get right in one of those peoples' faces and tell them to get fucked, and it will feel soooooo good.

why am I being insulted here? at no point have I issued any insults to parents - i've simply stated the case of the people in the store without children and the perspective of non-parents and i've been labeled selfish (how not wanting to hear a child crying is selfish i dont know), ridiculous and other things. why does my opinion not count? the essential answer here from parents is there is nothing that can be done about it and somehow those of us who might be annoyed by a screaming pouting child, who is not our child, are somehow in the wrong. i just don't understand the parental logic of insulting others for not wanting to hear your child's misbehavior.

I have a question for you pjhawks...

It obviously bothers you to hear a child crying or screaming in a public place but, honestly now, how many times have you approached the parent and asked them to quiet their child?

I'm guessing never. You hide behind you're computer screen and say all the things you don't have the balls to say in public when they actually happen. You let it happen, then bitch about it later to someone else or on a message board of all places.

I have a kid and sometimes, yeah, he cries in public. I don't like it any more than anyone else but it happens. I deal with it and try my best to comfort him. But if someone came up to me and told me to quiet my kid, I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. You don't like it? You leave. No one is forcing you to stay.

Heatherj43

I'm wondering if kids should not go out in public or if people who can't handle a kid crying should stay home.

ZiggyStar

I think some parents can successfully bring their children up without the need for smacks on the bum.

However, I do think a lot of parents aren't smart enough, knowledgeable enough or have the time and patience to consistently bring a child up without smacks etc......it is parents like this that I think would be better off smacking their child on the arse every now and then when they are really naughty and need to be pulled back into line instead of the child getting away with everything and growing up to be a little fucking shit with no respect. It's easy to tune out to another lecture or to laugh to yourself when you're in the naughty corner.....it's hard to ignore a sore arse!

Just my opinion.

aNiMaL

Ziggy is talking about being naughty and getting a smack on the ass...

Which thread is this?

LikeAnOcean

ZiggyStar wrote:

I think some parents can successfully bring their children up without the need for smacks on the bum.

However, I do think a lot of parents aren't smart enough, knowledgeable enough or have the time and patience to consistently bring a child up without smacks etc......it is parents like this that I think would be better off smacking their child on the arse every now and then when they are really naughty and need to be pulled back into line instead of the child getting away with everything and growing up to be a little fucking shit with no respect. It's easy to tune out to another lecture or to laugh to yourself when you're in the naughty corner.....it's hard to ignore a sore arse!

Just my opinion.

I have a cousin who got time outs all the time when we were little.. and he spent those time outs planning how he was going to get his next time out.. And he didn't exactly start to behave when he grew up. I know my uncle had to call the cops on his own son once.

Parents who spank successfully don't do it out of anger. Some people here are misunderstanding a spanking for child abuse. It's not like you're beating the hell out of a kid because they forgot to get your beer from the fridge.. It's just a small sting to remind them you are serious. A successful spanking is more humiliating than painful.

After a spanking I remember feeling shocked, ashamed and embarassed it came to such a silly act. It kind of made me reflect more on what I had done, why it may have been wrong, and that my mom meant business.. Look at me now! I grew up to be an honor roll student, a Pearl Jam fan, and have never had a speeding ticket.

pearljgirl2010

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Parents who spank successfully don't do it out of anger. Some people here are misunderstanding a spanking for child abuse. It's not like you're beating the hell out of a kid because they forgot to get your beer from the fridge.. It's just a small sting to remind them you are serious. A successful spanking is more humiliating than painful.

After a spanking I remember feeling shocked, ashamed and embarassed it came to such a silly act. It kind of made me reflect more on what I had done, why it may have been wrong, and that my mom meant business.. Look at me now! I grew up to be an honor roll student, a Pearl Jam fan, and have never had a speeding ticket.

Thank you for making this very good point. You hit the nail on the head.

ZiggyStar

aNiMaL wrote:

Ziggy is talking about being naughty and getting a smack on the ass...

Which thread is this?

Brain of C 2180

norm wrote:

aNiMaL wrote:

This pricks mug would make an excellent Halloween mask! I would love to dress up as this dude and hand out candy to the neighborhood kids.

Kids: "Trick or Treat"

Old Prick: "Treat motherfuckers!" Slap!



For those that won't pick up the sarcasm, its a joke! But it would be a good costume to wear to a party though.