Couple knocks 6 year old off her bike?

Agreed.

So much agreement!

WTH? You people have read my mind!

Seriously...I was thinking all of these things while watching the vid, and you all nailed the salient points!

1) Dad should have apologized to couple, and saw to his daughter.

2) Dog-walking-dude shouldn't have kicked the bike, lost his cool (although...I can somewhat understand being perturbed by being berated for having the gall to allow yourself to be rammed by a child on a bicycle), or used profanity around the child.

3) Dad should have made sure his daughter could control the bike well enough to not collide with people, *and* should have stayed close enough to her to control her. If she was unable to control the bike...then she shouldn't have been riding it around potential "victims".

4) I *would* agree with punishing the child...*if* she were old enough to be responsible for her own actions. She is not. It's like kicking a misbehaving dog, because its owner never bothered to properly train it. It's not the dogs fault...but poor training. Likewise, not the little girl's fault...poor parenting. *Unless*...the Father had already corrected the child once for similar behavior...then, a swat on the backside may be justified.

 

You don't do that these days.

You let kids do just as they like these days and then wonder why they end up sticking knives in each other.

 

Hence my comment "a clip round the ear" - back in the day, it worked for me when I received a 'clip' from my Father. We (my Sisters and I ) also had to behave ourselves at the meal table or receive a rap across the knuckle with a bamboo cane administered by Dragon.

 

I may find some of your political views a bit cruel and over the top........ But I definitely agree with your views on bringing children up to become responsible adults.

 

Petty shit society enjoys quibbling about these days, I swear. That wasn’t even newsworthy- should have been something that grown folks should be able to handle without any unnecessary drama. Dude with the camera should have gotten punched for being a punkass.

 

This is a horrible tragedy. The couple should've definitely been charged with aggravated assault.

 

Spanking is ok. It worked well for thousands of years and every new generation turned out ok. Zero spanking is a bullshit new age idea that was born in the late 20th century. Spanking is a much better alternative to disciplining kids than putting them on behavior control drugs that can alter their brain development.

Personally I’d make my kid hold his/her arms out to the side in a T formation for 1-2 minutes. And If the arms drop, then the clock restarts

 

Speaking about pathetic parents I saw one on Sunday that was unbelieveable, there's a girl lives up the road from me, just her and her 3 young kids, the kids are always badly behaved and swearing, one aged about 4 actually yelled at it's mother ' go fuck yourself' the other day, so it shows how bad they are. Anyway back to the story, on Sunday this lad appeared, I assume he's her boyfriend, she took the kids to a neighbours house, another single parent and asked her to mind them for an hour so she could go home and fuck her boyfriend! can you believe it, both her and the other woman have no idea about parenting, the kids run amok and do as they like, one night last week they were running around the street at almost midnight while the two women got drunk. It used to be a nice area, but it's going down hill rapidly.

 

Well, a timely slap never did us any harm, unlike this modern parenting today, there was a woman on tv a few months ago, she was into this new parenting where you don't set boundaries, kids set their own, sounds like lazy parenting to me.
Well one of her kids was running around the studio messing with equipment and generally being a pain, "ahh look, he's exploring his boundaries" the woman said, then the kid pulled down it's pants and shat on the floor!
I'm sorry but I don't agree with all this modern stuff, in my day exploring boundaries meant things like seeing how high you could climb or other stuff, these days it means something totally different, another one is this thing of 'expressing yourself', one child had badly scratched the paintwork on a neighbours car, his mother said he hadn't vandalised it, he was expressing himself, and she didn't think she should pay for the damage!
These days I try and avoid going anywhere were there are kids, I can't be doing with most of them, and their parents, go on holiday and you get badly behaved kids running amok, you say anything to the parents and the reply is always the same, 'we're on holiday', like it somehow absolves them of parental responsibility!
I take my dog on holiday, but I don't let it run around biting people!

 

haa i was praying for someone to have taken you seriously

 

That sounds like a great alternative to spanking and one that will improve their physical stamina at the same time.
The problem with the nanny state is that they wast time telling us what we should not do, without suggesting any better alternatives. I am sure that many parents will agree with your ideas.

 

The mere thought of that makes my blood run cold.

 

I thought you meant a “haircut” when you said “clip around the ear”

 

Absolutely not !!! - although it would make your ear 'ring'

 

Conan Obrien said most people spank their kids and the rest have monkeys

 

Do not go into the street! Do not run away from me and into the street!! Those were my orders to son # 1. He ran into the street AFTER I had told him not to and why--and a car barely got stopped about 6 inches away from killing him. He got the shit spanked out of him and sat in his room for the day.

Do not go under the trailer. Get out from under the trailer!! I was care taking a 10 acre spot with a mobile home on it in Florida and the guy that owned the place said--"don't let your kids go under the trailer--I have seen rattle snakes under there. "

Those were my orders to both my kids. Son #2 thought he was being cute by going under the trailer and laughing at me about it. I got him out of there spanked the shit out of him and put him in his room for the day. We had chickens and about an hour after I got my son out from under the trailer, a couple of them went under there and stirred up A 5 FOOT RATTLER!!!! Close to where my son had been acting "cute." Took me 6 or 7 shots to kill it.
Those were the only times I ever had to spank my boys. They were very compliant when I gave them certain serious information after those incidents. Of course otherwise were they normal rowdy little kids after that.

 

If this is all that is going on......
I’m off to lick the handrails at the nearest hospital.

Hurry up and get me corona.

 

Kids on bikes are scary lol When I’m out running, I veer way into the grass if I see them coming up the sidewalk.

I “side” with the dog walkers in this scenario but the kid is just a kid and sadly, is learning bad behaviors from her entitled dad.

 

Exactly, mine are grown up now, I've got grandkids, it's the same with them, do as you're told and do it immediately, if I say stop, it means now, if I say drop it, it's now., kids have no idea of danger at times, it's pointless them dropping the contaminated needle after they've pricked themselves, or stopping after they get bit by the stray dog.
I remember my mother " I'll give you to the count of three to stop doing that, one, two, three", followed almost instantly by a clout for not doing as you were told, you learned to behave and you learned quickly.
I remember going to visit my lad one Sunday, the wife had gone in the afternoon as they were having a barbecue, as usual I'd had to work, but said I'd call on the way home. I got there and I was knackered from work, I grabbed a cold beer and sat down in one of the garden chairs,my 7 year old grandaughter who my daughter in law treats like a princess, came out and rudely informed me that I was sat in her chair! I couldn't believe it, I wouldn't have dared speak to an adult like that, she then proceeded to climb all over me, much to the annoyance of my lad, he said nothing, he knew what was coming!
My DIL looked on, not saying a word to her little princess, I was getting more irate, finally I snapped, "young lady, if you carry on I'm going to tan your backside" I warned, she laughed and climbed on me again, I grabbed her and put her over my knee, 3 slaps (not very hard) on her backside and it was like the world had ended, "MUM ,he's hit me" she screamed, my DIL went to say something, my lad cut her off, "he warned her, and you should have said something" he said (she always had a go at him for telling the girl off). My DIL realising she'd lost the battle then told her daughter off for not behaving, to late obviously, and sent her to bed.
My grandaughter suffered no permanent harm, she came to visit us a couple of days later and is now very well behaved, you don't have to beat them senseless, they just need to know who's boss.

 

Yeah--it's certainly not pleasant to physically "train " your children against danger--but what the hell? You can't just let them run willy-nilly about in the world--it's a dangerous place for little ones with no real experience of what danger can mean for them.