Ohio woman arrested for spanking another woman’s child

Kid probably deserved the whoopin. If more parents started disiplining their kids maybe they would straighten out

That might be true but who gives someone the right to whoop a kid that they don't even know nor did she know the mother. I believe in whooping too but not a total stranger's child. I agree with you scrooge that kids would not be in the predicament they are in today if the parents disciplined their children more.

Wow.. you think that is appropriate??

Do you have children? You do realize that a 2 year old is still in the learning phase.. he/she may have said something completely innocent that annoyed this person because they are insensitive to what a toddler is like!!!

I have a 2 year old myself and even though I am a good parent.. he is going to pick up things he shouldn't... just like today.. the house that is adjacent to my backyard is having roofing done by RAUB construction and we can hear everything they say. I don't swear at all let alone in front of my kid... but he certainly heard the F word numerous times today because of those yahoos up on the roof. Now if we are out and public and he repeats that --- even though I do my best to keep him from hearing it... are you saying its okay for some stranger to come in touch my child? Go ahead and let someone try and touch MY child.. for what THEY think is bad behavior. If my child needs a spanking I am the only one that is going to make that decision.

No other right is held so inviolate as that to protect your children. I guarantee you that you can lawfully kick the crap out of anybody that assaults your kid.

Whatever happened to "It takes a village to raise a child"? Too many children today are not being raised correctly. We have given our children too many "choices", and the result is a generation of children with no respect for their parents or elders. When I was growing up, if I did something wrong down the street, the neighbor down there whooped me and "brought" me home to my mom and dad who then beat me again! It was not considered abuse; but "upbringing, respect and raising your kids right. You learned what to do and not do, how to act and not act. But now, everyone is so eager to sue and go to court, but they are first to complain when their own kids turn on them! I am not in agreement with her just spanking the kid like that, but the mother should have a little mor control over what the kid says. Even at 2 years old, children get a sense of what their parents will and will not allow, and push the envelope to the very edge...but if raised correctly, they will nevr go over it. Proverbs 22:6 says: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is older, he will not depart from it."

Keep in the child may not have said anything wrong!!! It may have just irritated this woman -- just like not too long ago (I forget where it happened) a woman was in Walmart with her toddler.. who was simply fussing.. and a man told the mother to "shut her up " or he would do it and then proceeded to slap the child. For fussing??? It irritated him so he "shut her up"

You can't just go up and spank/slap someone elses child. You just can't. I was raised by MY parents.. not the neighborhood... if someone in the neighbor would have ever seen me do something wrong they would have gone to my parents and talked to them. Never would they have taken it upon themselves to physically discipline me.

I am 32 years old... I have never been in any trouble, I graduated salutatorian from High School. Graduated with a GPA of 3.9 when I got my Bachelors degree in Early Childhood Education, and a 3.8 when I got my masters in Special Education. I was never suspended from school, sent to the office, I've never been arrested ... never even gotten a speeding ticket.

It didn't take the village to produce a good person in me... it took my parents.

People assume today because a TODDLER acts out or says something that someone else doesn't like that it is lack of good parenting.

Unbelievable! That you who are adding in proverbs... are suggesting that it is okay for a stranger to come up and PHYSICALLY discipline someone elses child.

Harbres, please "read" my post. I did not say I agree with some "stranger" just coming up and spanking someone else's child. What I "did" try to convey is this:

When a "village" is active in the raising of children, that means the "village" is active in the learning that the child gets from all involved. Proverbs says "train" up a child, not beat the crap out of them to make them listen. When a child is learning, he/she learns from the "actions" and respectfulness of those they are wacthing. If we as parents are mindful of the fact that our children are "watching" what we are doing, we would be more mindful of what "we" do and how "we" act so that we put forth the possibility of being the best "role models" our kids come across, thereby instilling in our children the manners, respect, good character, actions and speech that they need,so as to not be subjected to someone's "stereotypical idea" or their "all kids today are just out of control" attitude.

Good "rearing" brings forth good character...

And in regard to what I mentioned about when I was growing up, I say this:

Back then, our neighbors were not "strangers" as you suggest, because we actually spent time "getting to know them by talking with them, sharing with them, and just having good fellowship by standing or sitting on the house steps in conversation. "We had friends and actually went out of the house and found them!"

Nowadays, everybody is sequestered in the house when they come home, sitting in front of the TV, kids on the X-box or Playstations, or...texting each other. Personal contact is very near almost a "thing of the past."

We had more neighborly contact back then, and just for the record...I am 51, so it wasn't that much earlier than you. I too was never in jail, graduated with honors, joined the military and had an honorable tour of duty. Our neighbors were our friends; they cried with us, laughed with us and we helped each other and looked out for each other.

Not a bad idea, huh?