personal experience here,was doing some shopping and this lady was yelling obcenities to a child,the child was crying,the other adults around them were laughing.i informed the security because i wasnt sure what was going on but that child looked miserable,the child was not very young,id say an early teen,but this woman was being terrible to her,did i do the right thing?
2006-10-24 07:33:15 · 10 answers · asked by jen 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i masked and u answered,you never know in this day and age,and as i said in the question i wasnt sure what was going on but from what i saw it didnt look good,and i cant just assume that every adult using obcenities towards a child is doing so because they stoile something.i simply alerted security for the safety of the child,just in case.
2006-10-24 07:51:02 · update #1
yeah.tell it straight to her would have made it worse but telling security was a good idea.no one needs to be talked to like that.poor kid.i am a adult and would cry too if someone that is supposed to love me talked to me like that. maybe i am a sissy in that department.but a kid?! yeah you did good.
2006-10-24 08:15:03 · answer #1 · answered by red 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What and have the child continue to steal(maybe the parent saw the child put something in their pocket before security did), be rude to others? Did you have ALL the facts about what the child was being disciplined for? There are times for JUSTIFIED DISCIPLINE. And since the child was crying(they're embarassed), what ever it was I GUARANTEE they will not do it again, especially in the public.
I hope the next time a RUDE child runs into you, continues to steal from the stores you shop from so they can increase the prices, steps on your foot or something of that nature and the parent DOES NOT correct the child that you reap the benefit of parents allowing their kids to not learn corrective behaviour.
In reference to the obsencities, no that shows their low level of intelligence. There are ways to let a child know you mean business, without using words of that nature. NIP THAT BRANCH IN THE BUD BEFORE IT BLOSSOMS.
Trust me if it's child abuse, the abuser is not gonna have witnesses. Did you do the right thing? Heck, I guess my frustration is coming out in this answer because I'm single and I have been the "victim" of rude, obnoxious children WHILE their partents are in the same room and do nothing. Because of my relationship with say family members or church members I have their permission from them to discipline their children. There have been times when a stranger's kids have done stuff and had to escort the kid to their parent and they did the discipline out of obligation. I don't remember doing stuff that would have embarassed my parents, my siblings or myself in the public.
2006-10-24 07:36:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Even if the parent was being dreadfully unreasonable, that isn't your problem to meddle with. For all you know, that may be the only way to reach an even more unreasonable child.
""Children these days need discipline. ""
/These days?/ Children always needed displine. Thousands of years ago, and now. It's just we have shiittier and shiittier parents now, that /don't/ discpline them.
2006-10-24 07:56:17 · answer #3 · answered by Morgan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You most certainly did. I would have done the same thing. I may have gone a step further than you. I believe I would have walked up to the child and stood next to her and asked "If there anything I can do to help?" There are so many children out there that have been stolen and grown up believing that their kidnapper is their legal parent. Always best to do what we can to help even at the risk of verbal abuse, because at least it will attract attention. Thanks for helping that child.
2006-10-24 07:38:58 · answer #4 · answered by makeitright 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
relies upon on my toddler's age and the approximate age of the toddler bullying. while my teenagers have been preschool age and youthful, if we've been at a park and that i observed somebody choosing on my toddler, I generally informed that toddler that what they have been doing became no longer perfect and asked them the place their mom became. Now that my teenagers are college age, it relies upon. there became a boy on my boys' bus that could p.c.. on my boys often times. yet on condition that i comprehend him and that i comprehend his mom and her no-tolerance on bullying coverage, when I observed it ensue, I in simple terms informed him that he needed to depart my boys on my own, that this became a warning, and next time I observed it, or perhaps heard approximately it happening, i might flow to his mom. it would additionally matter on the point of bullying. in the event that they have been in simple terms making relaxing of them, i do no longer think of i might do something yet communicate with my toddler later on. in the event that they pushed them down or hit them, i might quite be permitting them to comprehend that attack isn't criminal and that i may be calling the law enforcement officers in the event that they did no longer supply up.
2016-10-16 08:39:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and when I see abuse I report it or like in the instance of what you saw I say something to the abuser.
I am tired of people abusing children.
2006-10-24 07:37:54 · answer #6 · answered by hiscinders 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I will not say anything because it seems somewhat unethical to
distrub somone in his or her personal matters.
2006-10-24 07:41:40 · answer #7 · answered by ainy silver 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I see it all the time and it breaks my heart. Get involved!
2006-10-24 07:36:44 · answer #8 · answered by Britni Gayle 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes you did the right thing. Should have slapped her too.
2006-10-24 07:35:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Children these days need discipline.
2006-10-24 07:40:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋