Woman drags kid through store.

[HAL 9000 96]

To be honest the woman probably needs antidepressants too. You don't drag your child like that through a store. Period.

I've seen them used. Kind of weird in a place where you could control your child's wandering... but not that bad of an idea somewhere very public where kids have disappeared before.

True. Kids can and do wander once they are mobile. So the safer, the better me thinks. #######, I wish I could put a leash on Bren when we go to museums damnit, I keep "loosing" him

Does he wonder off and look at certain displays that are scientific? This is something genetic among us science people. Its something you spouses have to deal with.

What can I say? Spanking doesn't achieve anything. I might not be a 'leash' user, but I can at least understand where those using them are coming from - you can't 'reason' with a young child about danger.

I do remember getting lost in town when I was a kid, quite traumatic for me to remember all these years later. Luckily I was found and restored to my mother quite quickly but it wasn't a case of my behaving badly or her being negligent, it was simply a product of the circumstance of being in the hussle and bussle of a busy environment.

So... once you were lost, and now you are found?????? How touching

I don't believe in corporal punishment, either.

But you believe in spanking right?

[Peikko 1,575]

I don't think I actually did anything like that, but I did have a non pc method for dealing with the 'I will not walk any more' tactic

[Chica Yeyé 41]

To be honest the woman probably needs antidepressants too. You don't drag your child like that through a store. Period.

I've seen them used. Kind of weird in a place where you could control your child's wandering... but not that bad of an idea somewhere very public where kids have disappeared before.

True. Kids can and do wander once they are mobile. So the safer, the better me thinks. #######, I wish I could put a leash on Bren when we go to museums damnit, I keep "loosing" him

Does he wonder off and look at certain displays that are scientific? This is something genetic among us science people. Its something you spouses have to deal with.

He soo does that --- and I am known for wandering around saying "bren? bren?" and have had moms ask me "how old is your little one?" "He's 41 thank you very much!"

Spanking for the sake of happy sex life = good.

Spanking a child's assss for some misunderstood sense of authority = wrong.

[jundp 191]

Ah yes a good spanking is needed. So many things wrong with this picture though. First of all she has a kid on leash.

The kid's on a leash because he's a preschooler, probably in the terrible twos, and is probably apt to run off. The mom doesn't want her kid to disappear. The leash doesn't go around the neck. It is more like a harness. I used one when my daughter first started to walk. We were traveling through China during a national holiday (crowds of biblical porpotions.) I wanted to give her the independence she craved, but I did not want to lose her in such a crowd. I "loved her enough to let her go", but not forever. In the US, I would have used the leash so that she could have some level of independence without having to worry about a pervert kidnapping her. I'm tempted to use it now because my daughter is a VERY independent-minded two-year-old and it's either put her on a leash or let her run around out of my sight in a public place or restrict her independence by buckling her into her stroller, whining incessantly to get out, or we don't go out, which really isn't a choice. I think I'd rather let people like you judge me than regret it later when I'm on the news begging the pedaphile who grabbed my child to please return her unharmed. I'd rather raise her to be independent, but I don't think it is my right to allow her to take unnecessary risks.

Now, dragging her through a store. . . I don't think I'd do that. At that point, she would be marched out of the store by her ear, likely. Again, there would be people judging me for that, and I might even get a call from child services, but #### them.

And I'd sue anyone who took my daughter's picture and posted it anywhere. How dare they exploit my daughter.

I always used a walking rein when my kids were toddlers when out shopping....I didn't feel embarrassed about it and I still don't looking back on it, I felt safer knowing they were 'attached' to me in busy stores and streets, it only takes a fleeting moment of distraction for a kiddie to run out onto a road or get lost in a store...If any stranger thought I had bad parenting skills for using one then so be it, my reason was valid to me so who cares?

and again...

[HAL 9000 96]

At Len.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

At Len.

True story! Happened in the Seattle Art Museum not that long ago. the poor mom in question has soooooooo blushed when I answered

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Am I the only one who thinks this is totally staged? I don't think everyone would just stand around if it happened in real life. Plus the kid isn't screaming and flailing around.

That was my first impression to. Seems odd to film it but not do anything to stop the woman.

[Peikko 1,575]

If she could do such a callous thing to her child, just think what she would have done to someone questioning her authority to do it?

[HAL 9000 96]

Well if I were a store worker I'd be like... #######...

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Am I the only one who thinks this is totally staged? I don't think everyone would just stand around if it happened in real life. Plus the kid isn't screaming and flailing around.

That was my first impression to. Seems odd to film it but not do anything to stop the woman.

I rarely see anyone intervening when a "parent" is "disciplining" his or her child.

[_Simpson_ 250]

Am I the only one who thinks this is totally staged? I don't think everyone would just stand around if it happened in real life. Plus the kid isn't screaming and flailing around.

That was my first impression to. Seems odd to film it but not do anything to stop the woman.

I dont think it was staged, Its obviously a phone cam of some sort in a Verizon store. I bet you this kid threw a tantrum shortly before she ended up dragging her child out of the store which promoted this person to pull out there phone and record this.

[Nagishkaw 510]

She could have used a cattle prod to make it a bit easier.

[Peikko 1,575]

Am I the only one who thinks this is totally staged? I don't think everyone would just stand around if it happened in real life. Plus the kid isn't screaming and flailing around.

That was my first impression to. Seems odd to film it but not do anything to stop the woman.

I rarely see anyone intervening when a "parent" is "disciplining" his or her child.

Unless it's an obvious case of abuse (such as hitting a child with great force or with an instrument) I would imagine that's best.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

She could have used a cattle prod to make it a bit easier.

Sister Nagi is wise.

Mom: "now walk Christopher and stfu, or I will shove this up your azz"

Christopher: "eeeeeeeeewwwww mom, it's the same one my dad uses on you at night!!!"

[luckytxn 2,265]

Kids on leashes unbelievable!

Too funny.

Kids on leashes unbelievable!

Too funny.