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When the parent is there and doing what the parent thinks is adequate, it is nobody else's business to tell that parent how to raise their child. I think it's fine that a child cross without holding a person's hand. You don't. That does not give you the ability to impose YOUR WILL on me.
If a child is truly helpless then yes, you should certainly help out. But if there is merely a disagreement about what is appropriate the child's parent wins out EVERY TIME.
adequate, ?????
that's all, just adequate.
No I don't think it is fine for a 4 year old to cross the street without holding an adults hand. Are you out of your mind???????
Any adult that would let a 4 year old cross a busy street, while talking on a cell phone does need to be slapped, punched kicked and a few other things.
OMG, I just so wish you could read my mind right about now MommaBear.....
No I don't think it is fine for a 4 year old to cross the street without holding an adults hand. Are you out of your mind???????
Any adult that would let a 4 year old cross a busy street, while talking on a cell phone does need to be slapped, punched kicked and a few other things.
OMG, I just so wish you could read my mind right about now MommaBear.....
I agree....I wonder if MommaBear realizes that if the kids wanders in front of a car and gets hit, that the driver could be liable......and all of that could be prevented by some common-sense parenting??
That would be typical...idiot parent letting a preschooler cross the street while yapping on cell phone, then that moron parent would turn around and sue a driver for hitting the kid.
I would say a child or even a family is likely to be hit by a driver who is on the cell phone especially while texting. From what I remember in news stories, kids who were completely unsupervised were the ones who got hit by a car and not in a shopping plaza.
I did a search "child hit by vehicle parent talking on cell phone" and not much came up. I did find this but not from a news organization.
this has already happened but I can't find the article. Everybody looking to blame somebody else for their own mistakes.
whatever happened to personal responsibility?
The only story I can remember is the one where a child drowned because his mother was on twitter. After finding him in the pool, she went back on twitter to post what happened. Not much that people can do there. It happened in her own home.
SO TELL ME, HOW WOULD YOU HAVE GOTTEN OVER THAT?????
I am saying that the OP needs to get over the fact that he does not approve of someone else's behavior. And so do you. It doesn't matter what you think of someone else's parenting skills. Other people get to do things their way, without threat of being slapped, smacked, shot or whatever other violent consequences you believe they should incur.
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Not much that people can do there. It happened in her own home.
