Posted on 08/19/2010 9:08:26 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Yes, that is different though from what this woman did. Teaching a child that something is different from slapping (or “popping” them, as the mother describes it)when they kick or cry.
I should have been more specific.
The flight attendant said she saw her strike the childs face. She also said she saw he hit the legs. She also said the father said they had fought about it before.
The paramedics who examined the child let the parents continue travelling with the child.
We only have the word of the flight attendant, which may very well be true. But that is all we have as the fact that this is what this woman did.
The resultant uproar was that one “never slaps a baby”.
I personally would have popped the baby’s bottom but not their face. Taking another child because I saw them “pop” them? Really depends on how hard they did so. I wouldn’t pop them like that.
America's latest folk-hero flight attendant may be the one on a Southwest Airlines jet who took a 13-month-old baby from her mother after the woman slapped the crying child for kicking her... "We live in such a 'mind your own business' and `I'll sue you for getting involved' society that I feel we're afraid to stand up sometimes for the right thing," said Jen Reynolds, 38, a stay-at-home mom to 15-year-old and 16-month-old boys in Sandwich, Ill...Obviously the thing to do here is medicate the child, who has some kind of disorder that will qualify her for lifelong disability payments.
Good thing that the flight attendant took the child before the idiot mother shook him to death. What the heck is she trying to do, raise a sociopath?
13 year old, yes — 13 month old, never.
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