You were blasting everyone’s ears out, screaming at your son about every little thing he did. The poor little boy looked terrified, as you screamed yourself hoarse at him for tripping… He looked no more than 4, and you were being totally awful to him.
You were scaring everyone else at the park, including me. Just as I was about to say something, you spanked your son and yanked his arm, yelling that you were going home for a time out. WHY are you a mother? —Sad
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.
omg, that’s heartbreaking 🙁
another reason i support capital punishment of some parents.
Come on, this is too coincidental with Too Young! to be real. Very clever, though.
It makes me want to cry when I see parents like that. I know that kids don’t come with instructions, but they’re still humans, and mothers are the first people they’ll ever know.
How much you wanna bet that kid’ll be on a paxil and xanax by the time it hits 20?
Gee, I wonder why Nice Goin Fat does not post anymore?
Perhaps calling the moderator out on their troll account actually worked?
I have to laugh at Bitches such as these. Did the OP now have the balls to approach the mother and say “Excuse me, what’s your name? I have Child Services on the line and they’d like to speak with you.”
So let’s review. Why do some men grow up to be abusers? Is it Maxim , rap lyrics and first person shooter games? Or is it something a little closer to home. I’ve witnessed things like this more times than I like to remember and talk about a no-win situation. Unless the child is being physically abused to the extent of involving law enforcement, he’s going home with his harridan of a mother. And while it may be satisfying to the ego and the conscience to tell Mommy Dearest what you think of her; rest assured it’s the child who will carry the bruises for his mother’s public embarrassment. Heartbreaking.
I hope you aren’t implying that it is only the women/mothers’ fault that people grow up less than perfect, Ivan.
Not solely, No. But the majority of monsters are made, not born. And the formative years of any child tend to be dominated by female authority figures – mothers, daycare workers, & teachers. In the latter professions, females tend to dominate, especially in the lower grades.
The impact has IMO been under-explored, especially when contrasted with some of the risible dogma spewed by Wimmin’s Studies types, like the Mount student who takes such umbrage to “Men At Work” signs. Blaming a “patriarchal culture of permissive misogyny” is too easy.
Maybe what I would say, then, is that we should perhaps also consider the impact of the absence of male authority figures in people’s lives while growing up, not just the dominance of female authority figures, because those two factors make up the whole picture. Well, maybe not the whole picture, because I believe that it takes a whole village to raise children.
Omg, this sounds exactly like what I witnessed not too long ago. My friend and I were walking down Barrington, and some mother and her very small son were crossing the street. The little boy tripped off the curb, the ‘mother’ still had a grip on his hand, and YANKED him up, solely by his hand and started SCREAMING at him as he was trying not to fall over again. The mother looked very young and I can only imagine how the son will turn out to be :(.
No arguments from me on that one Newt.
Oldhand must be upset by this post as it brings up memories of when he was a kid being yelled at by his mom. No wonder he’s so angry. I would be too if I grew up in a home with parents who hated me 🙂
Maybe I should just feel sorry for him instead of writing cynical comments.
I feel sorry for the people who feel sorry for the kid. Maybe he was acting up all day and the mother finally had enough. A little spank probably shut him up and taught him a lesson. Kids need to be taught respect, not catered to.
This was Abu Omar slapping the kid because the kid wanted some really fancy western clothes instead of some really fancy Arab clothes.
“This was Abu Omar slapping the kid because the kid wanted some really fancy western clothes instead of some really fancy Arab clothes.”
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA. =D
“No Expos hat for you, Bashir!” *SLAP!*
Unfortunitly this sounds like someone I know. I dont condone it AT ALL, there are much better ways for dealing with children, BUT, you don’t know what is going on in this moms life. Maybe instead of condemming her, you try and help her. Alot of young moms do not have any type of support. People are so quick to look down on them and judge. Its not easy raising children. Its not easy raising them alone. And it sure as hell isn’t easy raising them if they have any kind of issues.