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Riley posted:

This is not a story... This is a video that i saw... This is wretched... A sadistic sociopath who is a texas judge (shocker) beating his daughter... Please share this video... This man AND HIS ACCOMPLICE WIFE ARE AS EVIL AS THEY COME. http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/02/2004-video-shows-texas-judge-b

Candy posted:

There was a woman in walmart last night that was verbally attacking her two children (5-8 years old) for stupid things that parents can't seem to deal with like asking if they can have this or dancing beside the cart or just breathing in this case. I listened for a few minutes and watched her anger with them climb and climb until she backed the little girl against the shelves and said, "I swear if you don't shut the fuck up right now and put your goddamn hands on the cart & quit moving you are not going to be able dance for a week!" I had my child with me at the time so I did not want to put her in danger but I thought this woman to be one that felt she had power because the children were smaller than her. I stepped next to the little girl (she was pasted against the shelf terrified) & looked at the lady for a second. I simply said, "This is how you want your children to handle their problems? Remember this conversation with her when you pick them up from school for fighting, when you have to take one of them to the hospital for breaking the others nose, remember this conversation with you are old and dependent on them and they don't care about you need or want from them." She was so bewildered that i was able to look at her for a few more seconds in silence before simply walking off without hearing a word out of her mouth in return.

Niel posted:

I confronted a guy who was pulling his toddler by the ear today. I stopped him and firmly questioned his actions and told him he didn't have to be rough with him. Unfortunately, he didn't take me seriously and kept doing it. I think I could have done more in that situation but I'm still learning...

Appreciated 2 time(s).

Darius posted:

Today I was walking with a couple of friends and saw a women yelling at her child, because this girl was walking into a puddle. The mother was roughly pointing at child's feet and screaming: "Look, they are wet already!" I walked to her and calmly said: "Ma'am, don't yell at your child. She's crying already..." The mother looked very ashamed and afraid, said "Thank you" and fondled girl's hair. The girl looked very sad, afraid and hurt.

I added: "I understand that it's hard, wet feet and everything, but if you continue such behavior, it will result in more problems in the future." The mother just looked at me ashamed and had nothing to say.

I'm not sure if the mother truly understood the harm she was doing to her child or if she was just ashamed and afraid that I said something. I also felt that this "stroking child's hair after violently yelling at her a second ago" gesture must be very confusing to the child.

Appreciated 3 time(s).

Nash posted:

Today I was on an airplane flying from Atlanta to San Francisco, and I was surprised by how miserable the younger children on the plane sounded. One of them in particular seemed to be crying for about a third of the trip; he was about 2 and half years old.

I got off the plane before my friend, so I waited for him in the hallway. As soon as the family with the screaming child got off the plane, the boy was squirming to get away from his mother and be as far away from the airplane is possible. Who could blame him? He had a pretty rough time in there.

Unfortunately, her all-too-predictable response was to crouch down on the floor, pin him against the wall, and yell at him. So I casually (to avoid being perceived as threatening) walked over to her and reminded her: “He's had a long flight too, you know.”

“Yeah,” was all she said to me, but she backed away from her child and started talking to him in regular tones. It felt great to see my intervention help a parent be more reflective without being defensive.

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