Woman spanks someone else's child...

MommyToAshley wrote: http://www.wlwt.com/news/20942207/detail.html

Another story like the one we read the other day. OMG, what are people thinking?

No one had better lay a hand on Ashley or I will probably be the one getting arrested.

boyohboyohboy replied:
let me tell you, if someone ever lays a hand, or attempts to lay a hand on my kid, that will be the last thing they do.

BAC'sMom replied: I am afraid they would have to put me under the jail if stranger spanked my child!

moped replied: When I was about 5 I was playing outside with my freind across the street and her dad spanked me - my mom LOST IT on him and she never spoke to him again.....he died a few years ago and my mom did not say very nice things about him and didn't go to his funeral

TheOaf66 replied: ok if they are babysitting my kid there is some leway for discipline (not physical) but just some random guy smacking my kid in a store because he was acting up I would be calling for bail money.

A&A'smommy replied: I can remember my dad telling me that if he did something wrong and his mother didn't catch then whoever did would spank him and then his mom would deal with him. And back then it was just like that... NOW you cannot do that!!!
Its hard for me to allow anyone else to discipline my child but if I'm NOT there then I definitely want someone too. I do think she was over-zealous, but honestly its not like she REALLY hurt the child so I don't think she should be put in jail. I'm SOOO tired of crappy parenting I can't even go in walmart anymore without someone elses child pushing me out of their way. Or without totally disrespect so I can kinda understand where she is coming from but she shouldn't have spanked someone else's child.
I'm kinda irritated by part of the headline that says "Spanking a child in public usually won't cause too much of a ruckus -- unless it's not your child." that is not true anymore.
ANYWAY I definitely don't think I would be happy about it if someone just spanked my child especially with me RIGHT there and definitely NOT a stranger!!

BAC'sMom replied:

I have to agree with you on that comment. Now a days if you look at your child cross ways in public you get dirty looks. Not that it stops me I just give the dirty looks right back

A&A'smommy replied:
I have a friend that put her 3 year old in a child harness (leash ) one day and someone came up to her and told her how mean that was, and then everyone else gave her TERRIBLE looks. SERIOUSLY people she was protecting her child.. and I LOVE my kid leash although with all the nasty gross stuff going around I have been using my sling so she can't touch anything

My2Beauties replied: If my inlaws, mother, dcp or someone else has my children then I have no problem with them disciplining my children. However, if a complete stranger walked up to me in a store and even so much as spoke of how my child was acting out, I think I'd act out on them if you catch my drift. I am definitely a momma bear, those are my cubs, you DON'T mess with my kids.

MoonMama replied:
Ditto!

HOLY SHEEP!!!!

~Roo'sMama~ replied: Unbelievable!

Our Lil' Family replied: I'm still bothered by my own mother softly spanking Thomas the other day! If a stranger spanked my child someone would have to pull me off of them!

Hillbilly Housewife replied: Spanking, in Canada, is illegal.

~Roo'sMama~ replied:
My mom and I actually had a big fight last wednesday because she almost spanked Andrew with a spoon. We spank our kids, but only when they are being defiant and we do NOT want anyone else spanking them!

DVFlyer replied:

Uh huh... Then I dump a 55 gallon drum of butt whoopin' all over you for giving my child "love and attention".

Don't touch my kids unless it's to save them from danger..... then come find me and slap me across the face for not watching them more closely.

cameragirl21 replied:
LOL...a few days before Mother's Day, I was at Whole Foods and there was a dad, or so I presume, he had a little girl in his shopping cart. She was not in the little seat section but in the back, roomy part of the shopping cart and he was pushing her through the store at full speed, as if he were in a hurry and as he was doing that, she started to climb out, putting one leg over the shopping cart, she was maybe 4 at the most. OMG, I came running to catch her and so did two other women but I was the fastest one and I started frantically saying, "she's climbing out!" and the dad at first was like and then he said, "I see, thanks" and I'm thinking, "yeah right, you see, she nearly climbed out and fell to the floor while he's pretending to be Mario Andretti with his shopping cart.
I wouldn't have slapped him but he definitely wasn't paying attention to his daughter.
As to the OT, I definitely think it's wrong to touch anyone's child in public, no matter how bad they're acting, Idk why people can't just mind their own business and tune out other kids' screaming, it's really not that difficult.