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Looking at the video, the kid just thought it was fun to run in and out of the plastic flaps of the door.
Toward the end of the video, a woman picks the child up off the floor. I'm assuming it was a parent. SHE probably thought what the child was doing was harmless, and she was apparently close by
I would never purposefully hurt a child. If I ever started feeling like it might be a good idea, I think I'd seek psychiatric treatment immediately.
I'm not a mushy-gushy, "ooh, look at the baby" type of person. I just don't think people should hurt children, animals, or the elderly because it's a monstrous thing to do.
I agree, that woman shouldn’t have tripped the kid. He could have hit his head so hard that he might have gotten a concussion or even worse. I don’t agree with the comments on social media though saying they hope that her child dies or something is wrong with it.
Looking at the video, the kid just thought it was fun to run in and out of the plastic flaps of the door.
Toward the end of the video, a woman picks the child up off the floor. I'm assuming it was a parent. SHE probably thought what the child was doing was harmless, and she was apparently close by
Yeah, it didn't look like he was misbehaving or being obnoxious. He was just running and inadvertently flung the plastic flap in the lady's face. Running around is pretty normal for little kids. I have a three-year-old niece who is well-behaved, but sometimes she's just get excited and bolt off. It's not their fault they don't have much impulse control yet.
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Originally Posted by Sassybluesy
I love kids. And I REALLY love little ones. I'm also a parent, and I've BEEN a parent of little ones misbehaving in public.
Here's the thing. UNLESS I think a child might hurt themselves or someone else because of their behavior, I can ignore it. Not my kid, not my problem.
Plus, I get that kids often misbehave because of extenuating circumstances. A place is too loud, a kid is hungry, needs a nap, and on and on. I don't judge the kids, and I don't judge the parents.
I agree. If a child was doing something dangerous, or was intentionally hurting me or someone else, I would do whatever I needed to do to keep everyone safe, but otherwise I'd just let it go.
I'm not a parent, but I have a vague idea of how exhausting children are from taking care of my niece occasionally, so I normally feel more sympathy than anger when I see a parent with a kid that's not totally under control.
I admit that I don't have much patience with little kids who are misbehaving, but I would never harm a child. The child in the video did absolutely nothing wrong. It was completely unintentional that the plastic strip touched the woman's face when the child ran through. The woman was 100% in the wrong to lose her temper and trip the child. The woman assaulted the little boy, plain and simple. She should have been arrested and could probably benefit from some anger management therapy.
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Last edited by PJSaturn; 04-24-2018 at 07:43 PM..
Reason: Corrected a typo.
Just leave. It beats two years for assault and battery.
Or it you are set on going to jail, just duct tape them to a display. If you only stick the tape on their clothing, you will avoid harming them in any way, plus the judge might find it funny and reduce your sentence.
The kid didn't mean it and it wasn't like he'd been an ongoing problem or something. If anything, those flapping door slat things were the issue.
But even if he had done such a thing on purpose, I'd not be overly eager to potentially cause brain bleeding and seizures to a child. I'm going with "no" here.
I think if you look closely at that video, you will see that that woman was trying to protect the child from running out and possibly being injured. She simply put her foot out, as many of us do, and the child fell on his own.
Here's a great title for a kids' book: "All the energy looking for a place to go!!
I wish I had half of that.
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All that energy....
