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Originally Posted by maleficent
It's inexcusable to want to help a child? Clearly you are joking... She's lucky she was just slapped? You are out of your mind...
How do you know that the parents had control of the situation - based on the what he described - the parents didn't have control.. dad was worried about the baby.. mom was having a tough time with the 2 year old... ChILD WAS SCREAMING _ Child screaming means there is no control of the situation.
Slapping someone trying to help is not acceptable behavior... and not something you want to teach the two year old - what happens when he slaps his sister for something -- well dad did it?
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1. Anything outside of guarding from immediate threat of great physical harm is NOT "helping", it's putting your hand on someone else's child without permission. There was no immediate great physical harm- he was just snagged on something. He wasn't about to plummet to his death, she didn't snatch him out from in front of traffic, she wasn't extracting him from a burning building, preventing him from being beaten or having his limbs torn off by a combine-
his pants were snagged.
2. Kids scream for lots of reasons, and they have NOTHING to do with parental control. Just because a child is screaming doesn't mean WWIII is breaking out in a department store, nor does it mean the parents don't have the situation under control. Being worried doesn't mean it's not under control- it just means he's worried, that's all. I've been VERY worried about MANY things I've had PERFECT control over- the two concepts have no implied connection. As i've said... unless the child is in IMMEDIATE danger of SERIOUS physical harm, NO ONE has the right to touch- in any way- someone else's child. This child was not in DANGER, the child was scared and maybe a little hurt from snagging himself on something. Screaming of a child DEFINITELY does not "mean danger".
3. You take the opportunity to teach your kid that strangers are not allowed to touch them. Case closed.