Mother who carwashed her child in an interveiw...

I did not see it, but wished I did. I, personally think she needs parenting lessons along with someone holding her down and spraying her with a high pressure washer. Also, shame on that attendant who walked right by without doing something.

Everyone is missing hte point. They are all making it about the mother... forgetting about that little girl. That little girl didn't know what was going to come out of the nozzle. She didn't know it was only going to be mist coming out (if it really was). She didn't know it wasn't going to hurt. She didn't know Mommy was just trying to "calm" her down. That little girl was scared out of her little mind and most likely will suffer some kind of trauma episode the rest of her life because this mother did something so horrific to her. She probably wasn't hurt physically, but mentally - I'd be willing to bet she will be afraid of her mother for a long long time and from that will come other insecurities and violance and hate will be very common feelings to her. How could any mother do that to their little child anyway? Spray the living daylights of of the child to "calm them down"? Why are they riled up in the first place? FIgure that out and address that and you'll solve the problme. Scaring the mentality out of them isn't going to solve the problem. that woman should have to pay some price for the damage she has done to her little girl.

I did not get to see the interview of this woman but still either way I think she was in the wrong. There are good and bad ways to get your point across to a child and that was not it. I think she should at least have to go to some parenting classes or something. Just watching that video of her doing that to the child was heartbreaking.

I have not seen the video myself, so I can't directly say how bad the incident was and if it warranted the woman losing her child. That being said, I think her method of punishment is deplorable. Discipline should be done with love and not in hopes of freaking your child out. I know my kids were scared of just being in the carwash itself when they are safe inside a car, I can only imagine the little girl's fear outside the car wash!

I didn't see her interview but, I did see the video. It is grainy but, it looked to me like that water was at full blast and, they interviewed two employees at that car wash and one of the employees demonstrated that it does mist without pulling the trigger. They showed how harsh it was when the trigger was pulled by spraying it on things like bread and fruit or something else and it tore that stuff apart. It just really looked, to me, like it was on full blast. Regardless, getting your child wet when you are out and about riding in a car, is no way to get her to stop "throwing a fit". If anything, that only makes anyone more upset. She should have her daughter taken away.

I have not seen the video but I did read the story on MSN. At first I was really mad about the incident. I do not necessarily agree with they way she punished her child but I think most of us as parents have had at least on moment in parenting when we thought wow I handled that wrong. I should have done this in a different manor. I know I have. As a parent I do the best I can and I am not perfect. I have looked back and realized my mistakes and have tried to learn from them. I hope that this mother learns from this mistake and finds better ways of punishment.

Well I do know that if you don't pull the trigger the thing does mist. I have not seen the video. Does it look like she is pulling the trigger?

I'm sorry but I still dont think it was an acceptable thing to do...accidents happen right so what if she'd actually pulled the trigger TOO hard...not to mention the fact that even if it was just a spray, its still humiliating to the child...

I did not get to see the interview of this woman but still either way I think she was in the wrong. There are good and bad ways to get your point across to a child and that was not it. I think she should at least have to go to some parenting classes or something. Just watching that video of her doing that to the child was heartbreaking.