Originally Posted by guccilvr

I fully understand why people get annoyed at parents and children who are whining. I get it. In fact, I get annoyed at other people's kids because of the whining.. however, I'm not going to tell them how to parent or even come close to smacking their child.

There's a difference in letting the whining go on for a while and not doing anything about it, and someone just grabbing what they need and removing the child. I think that it's worse on a child in the long run if you continually move them out of the area because they are whining. That does nothing but teach them that if they don't like something, they can run away and go somewhere better. Yes I understand the whole "take them out to show it won't be tolerated" but in most cases, especially with children 3 and under, ignoring them does a better job of getting the point across. It's like a dog, you give it attention when it's doing something wrong and it reinforces the behavior, ignore it, and he'll get the idea that he shouldn't do it. Same goes, in a way, for children. Ignore their tantrums and deal with it appropriately when you get home or to the car and they'll get the point.

There is no excuse for what this guy did (if he did it). None. Nada. Zip. I don't care about his generation and all that, a child is still a child. You don't fuck with other people's kids.. and yeah.. I said it before.. I'll say it many times again.. he, or anyone else, better count their blessings that it wasn't my child. I'd gladly take a charge for protecting my kids.