I think 'terrorists' live their own private hells. IF someone is harming someone in my presence, my instinct is to react. If someone is reported to have hurt others, my instinct is to hear all the facts. Keep in mind though, that I am extremely anti - violence and pro life.

the kid was two. at two, they probably aren't thinking..."let's see, if i cry i can piss mom off." they're thinking..."wow, i don't know that person. i'm exhausted...who are all these strange people? why is he looking at me? why can't we leave...ooh, shiny, can i have it?" ....

I have to disagree Lulu, I have a very active and intelligent two year old. She does whatever seems to work to get what she wants. The motivation might not be to piss me off, but she certainly knows she isnt to do it. Sometimes the attention a child needs is discipline, but nothing like what this stranger did,,which was nuts.

If the mother had half a brain, she'd have taken the child outside or somewhere else until it calmed down. No rule in the book that says it's unlawful for me to want some peace and quiet.

Dunno, maybe the Walmart rules aren't the same as civilized society rules.

it???? IT is a child and even says the child was a girl.

no one knows why the child was crying. she could have been sick. even if the child was throwing a tantrum...no one has a right to put their hands on someone's child.

as for the mom...I know some people that would be stunned by the man and the reaction may have been delayed. me...I usually act first then think with something like this

So I didn't go back the OP to determine the sex of the child. BFD.

a child isn't an IT either

Maybe it was a zombie child!?

that's only your offspring cloudy

i must say the man was wrong totally wrong and should be charged and tried


now that said

the mother should also have the child under control

if the child was crying because she was sick (the child should not be in public)


if the child was having a tantrum the child should have been removed from the store (and disciplined by the parent)

the parents of children should be held accountable for the unruly and loud behavior of their children

if i go to a restaurant i purposely avoid where th little kids are


and if they come in and sit near me and act up i let the wait staff know to give my bill to the parent of the acting up cjild forr ruining my dining out experience

yes the man was wrong but children in public need to be under control

that is one reason i ry to go in the middle of the night no or few kids

I'd have my son go whack the kid then it's a kid whacking a kid.

then they get ya for inciting riot

and the brat kid and bad mother get nothing

According to the article...the child didn't become unruly (screaming) until after the jerk smacked her. there isn't enough of the article to know if the mother had the option to leave the child with someone when she went out shopping. I was a single mom and had to take my son to get medicines when he was sick because I didn't have a baby sitter. 2 yr olds cry....some throw awful tantrums. I can understand getting upset if it happened in a restaurant (not a place like McDonald's) but Walmart isn't exactly where I go for peace and quiet. Hell...there are adults in the stores I would want to smack but I don't. the man is a grown man and could have put his big boy pants on instead of slapping a 2 yr old. If it happened at a restaurant or movie theater (which it's happened before) I would go to the manager to let them deal with it.

Miranda, you look just like my last girlfriend. She was abducted and no one has ever called and demanded a ransom.
Did you have a twin?

LOL! Sorry. I just got one of them faces.

Probably, with lots of fluoride and all those vaccines full of mercury. Lots of zombie kids out there.

I would have been in jail right now, because I would have beat the living **** out of that piece of **** mother ****er!


Hed be dead. Absoloutely!

Looked at your profile adj. You should run for president.

If everyone did that, youd never see a kid in public, and wed have no food in our houses, or nothing done, because all children throw a fit from one time or another, even you.

AND everyone cannot afford a babysitter.

If it really freaks ou out (which it shouldnt ) its a part of life.. walk away..

Lets just say he would be crying by time i had finished with him

where did we get the idea that children are to be "controlled"?

guided with discipline and love...led in the right direction, yes. taught.

children are people, too, and they have a right to their own emotions. just because we don't agree with them, that doesn't give US the right to squash them.