Boots employee smacking customer's toddler

valk_scot

Macca83 wrote: »

Good on you.

My mum had it perfected to a t. I still believe that if she had cause to use it even now, it would still provoke the same reaction.

Well, my son will still take my hand if we're standing at the side of the road and I click my fingers. He's 16 now and six inches taller than me, lol. I don't think he needs to take my hand at that age, of course, but I still click now and again to see if the toddler training still holds. It's funny to see his face when he realises what he just did.

Macca83_2

valk_scot wrote: »

Well, my son will still take my hand if we're standing at the side of the road and I click my fingers. He's 16 now and six inches taller than me, lol. I don't think he needs to take my hand at that age, of course, but I still click now and again to see if the toddler training still holds. It's funny to see his face when he realises what he just did.

Haha poor boy. Have you ever tried it in front of his friends?

sexylulubelle

Aimless wrote: »

Apparently she was on the news last night admitting she overexaggerated the force of the 'smack'.

well there you go........

shows you how all this gets hyped up by the media and a mother who is probably looking for attention...............:cool:

valk_scot

Macca83 wrote: »

Haha poor boy. Have you ever tried it in front of his friends?

I am a mean and evil mother who insists on all sorts of things like a modest degree of respect and picking up their own dirty clothes, but I'm no THAT mean, no!

(Though it's a thought....;))

valk_scot

sexylulubelle wrote: »

well there you go........

shows you how all this gets hyped up by the media and a mother who is probably looking for attention...............:cool:

Media chinese whispers. It happens all the time. I read in one rag that the Boots assistant had "slammed the child into a shelf".

What we need next, of course, is for the Boots assistant to bring a complaint against the mother for defamation of character or something like that. She could have lost her job over something like this.

suki1001

I'm not sure behaviour is necessarily worse that it used to be. I mean, as far as I can remember the phrase "terrible twos" has been around a very long time and toddlers have always played up (and older).

I can remember way back children acting up. I have two children, one of them went through it, the other just didn't like the hassle and couldn't be bothered - he just liked an easy life. When I worked on the shop floor - it wasn't all parents, it was some and recently when I took my daughter out with a few of her friends 11/12 for her birthday, they behaved impecibly and said please and thank you and I came away thinking - what a lovely bunch of young people.

There have always been this type of people. The Daily Mail types - I think most people do a good job with their children. Even if you are a conscientious parent, children can be trying at times and when they're young in a public place it can be mortifying - but that doesn't make them a bad parent, it's just going through a difficult time.

My dd was so strong willed as a toddler, that it could be exhausting at times, she's now so well behaved. The worst tantruming child I saw was my cousin (at 7 - over 30 years ago), where I remember my uncle despairing - she's now the most successful person I know and very well respected in her field. A child playing up in a supermarket, where the parent is struggling does not mean society has gone tits up - it just means that parent has a very strong willed child and that can be extremely hard work.

valk_scot

I agree that some kids can be considerably worse than others, even within the same family. My DD was very strong willed, argh, and teasted the boundaries as often as possible. She was my third child too so you'd have thought I'd have known most of the tricks and pitfalls by then? All I know is that if she'd been my first, she'd have been an only child.

She's still bullheaded at 11 btw. But I think it's sunk in that she won't be getting the better of me via bullying anytime soon. We get on just fine. She's got her dad under the heel of her boot though.