Hi
So it is ok for me to hit your child just because i feel like it.....because  your child is touching something in my house that i don't want it to touch....

Read her original post and look what they had already done...they were putting in disciplinary steps.....

What if your child had cotton wool syndrome
What if your child had some other syndrome where hitting them causes uncontrollable bleeding....
What if your child was Cystic Fibrosis like mine and he hit the child and gave it "the cold" that ends its life.....shopkeepers carry the worst germs of anyone.....they are exposed to all sorts of stuff during the day and most very seldomly wash their hands.
Not all parents believe smacking is the be all and end all of punishments
No one has the right to smack or discipline my child except myself and my husband when we are with her.....
How dare he touch her child....I know I would have had a hard time restraining myself enough to get my child out of his shop......i would have called the police there and then and had him arrested...

My thoughts
Luv Deb

it is the parents resposibility to inform people of a condition if your child has one,as if your child did have something srious as you said you would have them close by and you would inform others you feel needed to know, plus like i said it is our resposibility as parents my children are always right beside me so nothing like that happens as i am in conrol of the situation, parents need to be respectful of other people things, it happens so often that these people loose stock and end of with expensive repair bills due to parents not supervising there children, so come on take responsibily and those sorts of things won't happen

hi there firstly how many kids do you have ?

yes indeed its my job to look after the kids and tell them off but firstly the son that got smacked in the hand has a mental desability if i was to tell him off everytime he touched something i would be an over protective parents and a bad one at that.if you go see his picture in my photos you will see austin looks like a normal 7 year old but his brain is of a baby of 20 mths old he still does not speak,i will not and refused to have to tell every person i come across that he has a desability i should not have to explain to everyone he isent normal.there is no excuse.he wasent doing nothing wrong he was sitting quietly touching the screen .so everyone knows the printer wasent a real printer its them computer screens that you can put your camera card in or use your mobile via bluetooth to send your pictures to adn then the guy prints the pictures out so really all it is is a computer screen there is nothing he can damage on television you can see a little boy use it in their ad,my son at eastlands our near shopping centre is alowed to touch it and so are the other children so if those shop keepers dont care why should this old man ?

another thing is i was on one of them machines then next to me was my husband with my youngest in the stroller and righ next to him was my oldest and my son austin and izzy were standing in front of him so my son was in arms lenghth of his father when my husband hear the man tell him to not touch my husband told my son dont touch ,but tellingmy son not to touch dont always work as many children usually dont listen ,so your tellingme its ok for a man to smack a child on the hand if not doing whats its told?

Im sorry Libby, but I don't care if you let your child run riot in the shop, no one absolutely no one has the right to lay a hand on your child, I don't care if it was a tap or a hard slap.  I find it disgusting that anyone would find this at all acceptable.  Hugs to you and your dear little man

I think this is blown wayyyyyy out of proportion.

1. It was only a smack on the hand...that's not illegal by any means, it hasn't left a mark or permanent injury.

2. Yes, it is your responsibility as the parent to discipline and guide your whether or not that child has a disibility.

3. Those machines likely are quite expensive items and they probably get quite a lot of people who let thier kids play with them.

4. They could have asked you to leave the shop...then how would you feel.

5. Perhaps if you need to do something like that, you ask someone to look after your child for a couple of hours.

6. Yes, I would have been a little annoyed at someone even threatening to smack my child, but also I am responsible for his behaviour and I have an obligation to store owner and thier staff to ensure that my child does not cause damage or pose any threat/danger to himself or others.

 

Oh, I missed the bit where your husband was there.....I'm sorry but there were two responsible parents there, geez couldn't your husband taken the kids for a walk around the shops or something while you did this.

Unfortunatley I hear lots of excuses, but no acceptance of responsibility or solutions.

I tottally agree, This has now gone way out of proportion. Did your son cry? The man was wrong to smack your son But its over,done, forget it.