how should a mother /parent react when a stranger yell and hit your child in public?

Question

last week i went out with my son( who is 2yrs and 2months) to the bank. It was busy so i decided to go to the teller machine instead.Between making that 10 seconds decision my son had ran off to the next machine(which was 100cm).... next thing i knew a grunt ..."GO AWAY" ...."YOU GO AWAY!!!" from a woman at next auto teller machine,so i assumed my son may have interrupt her so i called out for him. BUt my son didnt come and so the cried "GO AWAY ....."grew to a scream continues. then at this point i turned and saw the woman slapping my son's hand with a piece of paper..not once but several times,i immediately turn to asked her why she did that,she said he was playing with the buttons while she was trying to make her transaction.then i told her, he's only2yrs and questioned her intelligence for yelling and hitting a 2yrs old. then she yelled that she had a very important transaction to made,(without even looking at me,she yelled and continues hitting the keypad on the machine!!!!)then

its in shopping mall, n it happens 5sec at most she could turn to me as i m only next to her and my son was standing tip toe next to her on the other side....

Answer 1

Some people are crazy, you dealt with it well

Answer 2

First off she should not have hit your child, but it was just with a piece of paper.

Although why did you not go and get your child right away? Your son was obviously hitting buttons on her transaction, I could understand her getting annoyed by that. Your son was not listening to you and she had a right to be upset. I guarantee if your son was hitting buttons while you were making a transaction you would be frustrated too.

You can only blame yourself. Plus not paying 100% attention to your 2 year old in a public place and letting him run.. do you know how fast kids are kidnapped? You should be yelling at yourself right now... You let your two year old out of sight in public.. that is worse then the lady scolding him and swatting him with paper..

Answer 3

If she develop into slapping his hand with a chunk of paper, i does hardly call that hitting. This lady develop into of course the two having an exceptionally undesirable day or she's in basic terms a depressing lady. even nonetheless i ought to work out why your first instinct develop into to react the way you probably did, i think of the acceptable element to do might ought to easily have long gone over to get your son, say an trouble-free "i'm sorry" and bypass on approximately your corporation. it rather is not constantly nicely worth getting all worked up approximately issues like this.... I mean this develop right into a crabby stranger who you in all probability by no capacity will see back and hours later you're nonetheless thinking approximately it and stricken by utilising it. i think of how you reacted could additionally teach your new child to be hyper-comfortable. teach him incredibly that even nonetheless there are circumstances you should face up for your self, there additionally are countless circumstances whilst it rather is greater acceptable to easily permit something roll off your back and bypass on including your day. it rather is the age the place childrens incredibly start up gazing their mother and father and how they take care of circumstances.

Answer 4

#1. you should have parked close enough to the ATM machine and left him in the car and still be able to see him.
#2. you didn't bother to look up when she started yelling the first time. Someone could have grabbed him and been gone and you wouldn't have been able to tell the police what the person looked like because you were too busy with your transaction.
#3. It was a piece of paper, not a belt.
Discipline your child when they do wrong. I am able to take my son with me and he knows not to wander off. I make him stand right next to me at the ATM Machine.

Answer 5

i feel for u on this one, but u should really keep ur child with u. there are children who've i dealt with who has no manners--and yes, most kids in the world are like this b/c they are in a certain age where they express themselves, but teach him how to behave. if he yells or does annoying sounds, stop him--give allitle yell at them so when they know not to do it again. that stranger did wrong for slapping ur child at the hand several times, but let this be a lesson. kay? ^_^

Answer 6

so she used paper to swat him away. she didnt physically touch your child?!?

if she was making an 'important transaction' i wouldnt want some kid coming up pushing the buttons which could possibly mess up whats going on.

sure she could have dealt with the situation with out yelling, but you also couldve taken the time to make sure your kid wasnt running off and messing with other peoples transaction...


i have a child so i know how they can run off before you even blink, but i also understand that some people dont want to deal with the intereferance of a child- and make sure to keep my childs interferance with others to a minumum...

Answer 7

nKeep your child with you at all times. He was bothering another person while they were doing a banking transaction. You didn't seem too concerned about your son's where abouts ad you should have been. You were responsible for this not the woman. She was hitting with a paper not a fist or hand, exactly what you would do to rid yourself of a pest.

Answer 8

First you really should have controlled you child. Even if that means you come back to doing your thing. No one should have hit your child. If some one was to hit my boy, He would have hit them back and probably tried to tackle their butt. He is 6 but a very big for his age kid. I have taught him well in football. My daughter is much older and she would have told me some one hit her and police would be called and that person arrested. Either that or I would have taken matters in my own hands if it were a guy to hit my girl.

Answer 9

She had no right to touch your child, even if it was with a piece of paper.

However, you should have had (and I'm sure you realize this) a little bit better eye on him.

You both were in the right and wrong in this situation, so I would chalk it up to a lesson learned on your part.

Answer 10

2 yrs old or not children that young still know the difference and how to behave. they go off of what they know and what the parent allows. so if you allow him to do things like that with you then he thinks it is ok to do to others because you have not taught him any different. i have a 5 yr old and an 11 month old. the 5 yr old knows how to behave and sees kids like your doing things like that and he knows if he tries that he has me to answer to. my 11 month old already will look when she is called and stop when she is told no. sounds like yours has not heard that to often.... she should have hit you with the paper next.

Answer 11

The woman was wrong to yell and hit a 2 year old boy- especially since it was not even her child. You handled it well considering the situation.
She should have politely asked you to get your child so he wouldn't be pushing all of the buttons. She should have, by no means, hit your child in any way.