Florida mom uses pressure washer on toddler; caught on tape

KARE11 ^ | 3/07/08

[Libloather]

If the punishment worked, they may have to change the name of the 'Magical Car Wash'.

[mtbopfuyn]

The worse part was when the child was wrapped in a “town”.

[MrPiper]

I’m sure she was not aware of the pressure on those things. Remember, most of this country could not find their state on a map.

[BunnySlippers]

I hate when that happens ...

[nickcarraway]

What’s a map?

[OCC]

she was wrapped in a town and placed back in the car.

I guess nobody was spell checking the spell checker.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Some of the diapers I had to change almost required a pressure washer!

[CindyDawg]

Can you get regular water hose pressure? Did the child cry in the video? Does she have skin damage? Things aren’t always what they seem to be.

[Kirkwood]

At high pressure, it would have easily cut the little girl open or injected unsterile water deep into the tissue.

This does remind me though of my brother and me getting so filthy playing in the summer that we needed to first wash off all the mud with the garden hose before coming inside for a regular bath.

[CindyDawg]

It may not have been punishment. She may have just been trying to clean her up.

[dead]

This all seems a bit overblown to me. The kid had an accident and the mother hosed her off with the nearest available hose.

Can't you squeeze the release lightly for less pressure coming out of the nozzle? I'd hose my kids down with that for fun, if they were good. Then I'd let them hose me down with it.

She was nice enough to wrap her kid in a town afterwards.

[agooga]

True enough— I have a pressure washer at home and on a hot day, it’s nice to get sprayed with it — as long as you’re about 5 feet or so away. At that distance it just turns into a hurricane mist.

[colorado tanker]

Age 2 1/2? She was probably trying to force potty training before the kid was ready. We laid off the pressure and never had a problem; when they were ready they started using the potty.

Crap like this is why kids abused in potty training end up in therapy - or pulling the wings off flies.

[CindyDawg]

I would think the car wash pressure washer is nothing like the one in your garage.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Oh please. I potty trained both of my kids before 2. Your approach is why kids are still in diapers when they get to kindergarten... when they are ready to do it.

[spanalot]

yeah - that demo on a loaf of bread was bogus - if you hold it a foot away, it is not harmful at all. And she swept it past her pretty quickly - I think it was creative.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Thank you for some sense. Of course, any little reason to involve the nanny state.

[Politicalmom]

Not everyone has perfect children.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Not saying they are perfect, just can’t stand when people suggest that potty training early leads to psychological problems. That is as ridiculous as saying disciplining children firmly makes them psychopaths.

[colorado tanker]

That's the problem with making assumptions, it makes . . . .

All of my kids went to preschools where they had to be potty trained, before kindergarten.