Lmao bssage that's the most amazing thing I've ever read. I would have definitely gone off the deep end if that were my kid. That guy would be DEAD. Its funny because at the very least, I carry mace in my purse and it would have given me the perfect opportunity to use it.
But seriously, its not okay for anyone to smack a baby in the face, let alone a stranger.
And yeah what Jeremy said is kinda uncalled for (why you would condone a random stranger assaulting ANYONE's baby is beyond me), BUT I have to say that I can NOT stand it when people don't parent their kids in public, and everyone else who's standing around suffers for it. I was seriously about to go MAD the other day when I was at work and a couple came in with their son (I would say 2 years old) and he was playing with something off the shelf (sitting in the cart though) and they took it from him and he just started SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER. And they didn't do ANYTHING. They literally walked around and ignored him completely for a half an HOUR while they did their shopping. He screamed at the top of his lungs the whole time. It was the most frustrating, ear piercing sound I've ever heard. His face was red and he was just utterly being a little monster. Everyone in the store was completely appalled by it. You could not stand anywhere in the store that you couldn't hear this kid screaming. Non stop. For a half an hour. I saw them several times, the parents weren't even looking at him. They completely ignored him. I wanted to rip my hair out. Those parents should be ashamed of themselves. And yeah, my kid has definitely cried in a store before, but I end it as quickly as possible. If he's being bad enough, I take him out of the store or at least into the bathroom to take a moment in private to calm down (but really that never happens, its crazy how well behaved my kid is I am truely blessed) and if its important enough to finish my shopping and I have to stay in there around all those other innocent people who aren't screaming in my ear, I find a way to calm him down. I have a bag for this purpose. I have a sippy cup ready, a snack, some little toys, a book, some stickers, whatever. Sometimes (and yes, I try to stay away from this cause I know its kinda spoiling lol) I'll just grab some candy from the checkout and that always works hahaha. Either way, whatever goes on with him is my problem, and all those people at Wal-Mart or whatever shouldn't have to listen to my kid scream. If he can't stop, then its obviously a bad time to shop. Those people at my job made me so mad because it was like the whole world revolved around them. They wanted to ignore their kid (to teach him a lesson or something?) so they dealt with his screaming and in turn made all of us deal with it too. THAT IS SO RUDE. So no, I'm not saying anyone should ever hit someone else's kid, but I can say that I could see how someone might get to the point of considering it lol.
I don't agree with what Jeremy said about someone else parenting your kids
(especially when it refers to hitting) but I do agree with him that bad things can happen if you just let your kids run rampant around others. And I know that several of us here have said some words to someone else's kids before because their parents were ignoring their bad behaviour, because we've had a thread on it before and its pretty common among us that we can't stand bad parenting and we can and will step in if it is affecting us personally. We just wouldn't hit anybody.
Glad that guy is in jail though. Maybe she was parenting her kid and maybe she wasn't, but you need to have way more self control over yourself than to hit a baby.
