Spanking in public

Fairy kisses · April 2012

Im at my sisters house where she has a huge grass park on the left to her across the street and one right behind her house. I heard a kid screaming, crying and yelling a bunch of stuff so naturally I went and looked out the window. It was coming from a boy that was about 5-7 yrs old. His mom had him by the arm and was giving him a good talking to about something then she turned him around and pulled down his pants, I saw bare bumm, and spanked him a few times right there in front of a crowd, there some type of ball game going on. I stood there looking in shock! She then took his hand and walked quickly off somewhere.

Now I'm one for spanking, I have never done it and normally don't judge parents that do. That being said I do not think it I right to pull a child pants down in front of a bunch of people, I don't care if you know them or not, and spank their bare behind! She could of done it with his pants on or taken somewhere else.

OhSewCrafty · April 2012

That poor kid! At that age, the spanking was a back seat to the embarrassment of having his pants pulled down in public. :-( Too far man, too far.

Fairy kisses · April 2012

That is what I thought Way too Far! I'm not sure what the reactions were with others around but it was disturbing for me to watch! I totally felt for that child I'm sure the embarrassment alone was as awlful if not worse then the spanking! I wish I knew what he did that was so wrong

enjoylife · April 2012

Wow. I'm okay with spanking, to each parent their own, but baring your child's behind in public?!? yikes!

lrn327 · April 2012

lachute:
I'm on the no spanking ever train. The bare bottom would have actually disturbed me. Why couldn't they at least do it over clothes. Ugh too much.

Wow, this exactly. Definitely no reason for pulling the pants down. Yikes!

desertlady86 · April 2012

I am also one for spanking but that is just to far. Even though I am for spanking I don't think I would pull my kid's pants down even if we are at home alone.

utlawgirl · April 2012

Wow, that is actually pretty horrifying to me.

Poor kiddo.

jarebearsmom · April 2012

I thought this was going to be about general spanking in public and I was ready to tell about how my sister spanks get kids in public and my daddy yells (yes yells) and his three year old grandson before spanking him in public and much it embarrasses me and even if I was in the spanking train (undecided. DH is for it but I'm torn) I couldn't do it in public.

This situation however is just do wrong. I can't imagine how embarrassed that poor little boy must've been

LuckyladyJ · April 2012

That is just ridiculous.She took it way too far.

pitterpatter129 · April 2012

desertlady86:
I am also one for spanking but that is just to far. Even though I am for spanking I don't think I would pull my kid's pants down even if we are at home alone.

This. I think that's weird and Indifferent .

ThePolishHammer · April 2012

Waaaay too far. How humiliating. Poor kid.

MrsDe2008 · April 2012

I'm on the no spanking train as well...especially in public...with a bare bottom?!? I may have called ACS on the lady. I won't expose my 1 yo's bare bottom in public, nevermind an older child. This day and age everyone and their mother have camera's on their phones, how do you know someone wasn't taping the whole spectacle or taking pictures? Absolutely not! Someone should pull her pants down and spank her in public!

Mommysaurus123 · May 2012

enjoylife:
Wow. I'm okay with spanking, to each parent their own, but baring your child's behind in public?!? yikes!

This... And especially to show your child's bare bottom when he is that old.

mommyfied · May 2012

I dont know about the law in the states, but here in Norway you break the law by spanking a child - actually a couple got convicted (fined) for spanking a child a few moths ago. But on the other hand BLOTTING your child like she did is actually a violation of that childs rigths. (it is not the actual pulling the pants that is the violation - but doing it against his will and in public.) I would have had yo use all my internal strength to not go over to that mom and talked to her alone about psychological abuse and action-reaction-sanction. I would also had advised her to read up on punishment, communication and behaveour of young. If she had brogth any "sass" I would have asked for her name and called child services.. (not saying that she should have her kids taken from her, but so that she is "forced" to understand childbehaveour)

But thats just my thougth - and I see no logical response to a childs reaction that can be defended if it is physical (beating, putting in another room or othervise isolate the child from its surroundings, spanking, blotting, pinching, etc)..

Pew - it got long :P

nursedevivo · May 2012

I am all for spanking in public in the right instance. For example, I saw a dad spank his son for running out in front of cars in a busy parking lot after he told him not to. I think that was very appropriate. Bare as$ed is a little much.