[Okies love Dubya 2]

This is too sad--our own little boy is less than 2 weeks from eight months old and he is getting ready to crawl. It takes a real man to smack around a baby, don't it? God help me if I ever got in a room with this *%$#@!^.

BTW, Mom sounds like a real winner too. Where in the *&$% is her maternal instinct to protect her baby? Even animals have more protective instincts than some women I've seen.

[Okies love Dubya 2]

I know what you'd do to this p.o.s.!

[Warhammer]

God help me if I ever got in a room with this *%$#@!^.

Ditto OLD2! I have three 6 years old and younger and will have another in May and hearing that anyone would do something like this shakes me to the core. I guess it really shouldn't, but then I'm just not that jaded yet, I guess.

[cupcakes]

You caught the fact that the baby had to crawl to her before he collapsed too which I'm assuming to mean, she didn't even run over to the child as soon as he was hit. Probably didn't want to pull herself away from MTV.

[cupcakes]

I wanted to add that I know what it is like to feel like you are losing your cool with a child. I have an autistic son with inconsolable rages where he is self-destructive and also destructive to our home and the things in it. It tests you as a parent beyond what anyone not dealing with it can imagine. People have to be adults and exhibit some self-control in this circumstance or any circumstance they can not handle emotionally. If I get to that point that I can not take it anymore, I usually seclude myself, cool down, and then attend to my son. I guess I'm saying I understand how some folks get to this place emotionally where they can't deal with it anymore, I don't know how they can look at their child though and get violent with them.
You are right on about instincts. How does one not step in when the other parent is out of control and protect their child?

[cupcakes]

BTW, I should add my son is 4, he isn't a baby.