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No thanks for the cookie, I don't eat sweets. I do realize how difficult it is and am not critisizing, but referring to parents of so called normal kids who let them run amok in public. Childhood is a learning period, kids are programed at a young age and this effects how they will behave or know how to behave in adulthood. Of course peer pressure plays a big role and this is why I instilled in them at an early age to be leaders and not followers, and that it was OK to walk away from friends who were about to cause trouble, afterall what kind of friends get you in trouble.
I can agree with this. Aside from this case though, my issue is the assumption that a misbehaving child is either a brat or has bad parents or both.
If the child is that much of a disruption, then why not leave him/her at home, I mean your aren't exactly honing their social skills.
1. Because he isn't a freak to be hidden away from the world
2. He is learning how to behave in public. Slowly, but surely.
3. I don't have the money or desire to hire a nanny.
4. My spouse works 70+ hours per week every single week. I can't sit around waiting for him to watch our child.
5. YDS isn't always "that much of a disruption" and he has just as much right to be at a store as anyone else does.
Try to find some middle ground here on P&OC and it never fails, you get kicked in the teeth for it.
1. Because he isn't a freak to be hidden away from the world
2. He is learning how to behave in public. Slowly, but surely.
3. I don't have the money or desire to hire a nanny.
4. My spouse works 70+ hours per week every single week. I can't sit around waiting for him to watch our child.
5. YDS isn't always "that much of a disruption" and he has just as much right to be at a store as anyone else does.
Try to find some middle ground here on P&OC and it never fails, you get kicked in the teeth for it.
I am not critisizing, if he is learning how to behave in public, then all is good. In one of your previous posts you indicated he was incapable of learning this or did not understand. Actually I am very tolerant of kids with mental disabilities, but have to know up front or they will be labled just a bad kid. I realize it is a little different in public.Do you believe these types of kids should be mainstreamed into the public school system? I am not a proponet of it.
OMG. I don't think words can accurately describe how I would teach that clerk a lesson for DARING to touch my child let alone beating him with a BELT!? WOW.
If the parents in of that child actually took an active role in raising their child to have a little respect, I suspect that clerk would not have felt the need to discipline that child.
I just love how everyone gets all up in arms at stuff like this when the reason why things like this happen is because this country is full of bad parents who fail their kids in the first place.
In some states, it would have been legal for someone to have shot and killed the clerk to stop a felony in progress. There is no way that I would have just stood by and let someone beat a child like this.
Sure you would just stand by.... because real life isn't like being a toughguy behind a computer screen
I applaud the clerk, if you got involved so would I to tell you to mind your own damn business
I am not critisizing, if he is learning how to behave in public, then all is good. In one of your previous posts you indicated he was incapable of learning this or did not understand. Actually I am very tolerant of kids with mental disabilities, but have to know up front or they will be labled just a bad kid. I realize it is a little different in public.Do you believe these types of kids should be mainstreamed into the public school system? I am not a proponet of it.
Yes I do. He is in a mainstream class with an aide and doing wonderfully.
Respondents to the story don't seem to have much sympathy for the brat.
Bingo. Sounds like just one more incompetant, coddeling parent. Perhaps if his parents did their job and actually raised kids, the clerk wouldn't have taken this action. I wonder if this is the first discipline the brat has ever seen?
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