I thought the same thing. He has her hair trapped between his hand and the handle. From what I’ve read elsewhere, she was causing him quite a bit of grief in the store. She is able to walk beside him and it would only be painful if she tried to run away from him again. I’ll admit that I would not have chosen this method of keeping her in check but I don’t think he needs to be arrested nor does she need to be in child protective services. I’m guessing if he had continued to let her run the store, causing other customers grief, he would have gotten an earful for that, too. This is not abuse. This is unorthodox discipline.
Parents are expected to leave stores if their kids act up because you’re not allowed to discipline in public anymore. I try really hard to avoid shopping with any of my kids. If I have to take them with me it means I’m desperate to get to the store and I have no other options for help. I can’t just leave and come again another time. Who has time for that?
That is exactly how I see it. I think this is but another example of someone overreacting and making a big stink out of something that is in fact a big nothing.
These women who like to accuse others of child abuse are pampered busy bodies who have probably never been much disciplined themselves in their lives.
Parents are expected to leave stores if their kids act up because you’re not allowed to discipline in public anymore. I try really hard to avoid shopping with any of my kids. If I have to take them with me it means I’m desperate to get to the store and I have no other options for help. I can’t just leave and come again another time. Who has time for that?
I would have asked a nearby cop to speak to the man and advise him that is not a good technique for disciplining a child precisely because all the histrionic fainting flowers will have a screech fest over it, and I would look for any evidence of real abuse that I could see. Finding none, I would leave it at that.
Taking this public? The man should sue the presumptuous busy body.