Did i do something wrong???

I did not expect her to react so rudely. I must say she cought me off guard. But you are right she is an ignorant person, but sadly because of her ignorance he will never learn to respect others. And thank you for letting me know i was not wrong in the situation.

I have to agree with MrsFairWells. If this mother had been normal, she would have been embarassed at her son's behavior and would have spoken to him about it. I also have to agree that it isn't safe in today's world to confront anyone - even kindly and gently - because you never know how they will react.

kenzie and MrsFair, i understand clearly where the both of you are coming from. There are insane people in the world, believe me i know from experience. I'm a teacher sometimes i deal with some mad parents, a mother once told me sometimes she feels like driving her kid to a field and leaving him there. He drives her crazy, never want to do his work or chores, he just plays games and hangs out with the wrong crowd. Sad situation...

Exactly, it's just not safe to confront people like that anymore...

Thank you for your comment, i must say you have lifted my spirits. I guess it is just in my nature to try to help young people from going the wrong way. I'm a teacher and my students are not far from my age i teach teen, and I've never heard any of them cursing like that. I'm glad he escorted her out also because some of the people in the mall looked like they were ready to knock her brains out.

That is so true! We only see a small part of their life when we are out like that! It makes me want to keep my children at home and not take them anywhere until they are grown! People judge the parents as well if we do discipline them in public. It is irritating either way!

Yes i agree the world is not perfect, but it is what we make it, thank you for your comment.

there is no doubt that the child gets it form his mother,thank you for your comment...

Thank you for letting me know i did nothing wrong. You are right however that the boy may grow up to become a delinquent. In the long run she will have no one to blame but herself. And now that you brought it up, i too don't think that i may have been the first person she exploded on in public.

yes i agree, like mother like son, it's a shame to see what our world is coming too. thank you for your comment..

see.... that's where I disagree. It takes a village to raise a child. In today's society... now more than ever before. When I was growing up (yes I know times have changed, but I am only 36) everybody knew you and your parents. They could come up to you and tell you to stop whatever bad thing it was that you were doing. And you would. Then, you knew you were in trouble because that person knew your parents and would let them know what you did when they weren't looking. There were consequences for that action. The next time you were out away from your parents, you would behave, because you knew SOMEONE was watching. Today.. the power has gone to the children. Parents don't give a damn about where their children are or what they are doing as long as that child is out of the parents hair. If they DO care they can't discipline their children for fear of having charges brought against them, teachers can't discipline because corporal punishment has been taken out of the schools. Wouldn't you want to know if your child was doing something wrong so you could address it? I do understand that is has become impossible for 1 parent to stay home and raise the children properly. I also understand that even though parents do everything in their power to raise the child properly.. sometimes it doesn't matter.. the child still might have unaddressed issues and grow up to do bad things. But, that is another discussion.

...and the reaction that Jessie got is EXACTLY why people are so afraid to be the village. Not I my friend... I will always say something to a child who is acting inappropriately

Dizzblnd, I am about your age, and I remember things being like that as well. Parents and other adults were to be respected, and if an adult told you to behave, you behaved! It didn't matter if it was a parent, a teacher, or someone you were annoying at the mall! Though most parents would not even have let their children behave that way.

Well i thought so because of her reaction and then my feeling sort of changed because people in the mall show mixed reactions. Some wanted to knock some sense into her, while a few others saw her as the victim without knowing fully what had taken place. But I'm glad to know if you were there, you would have stood by me on the issue. Thank you I'm feeling much better.

thank you for letting me know i did the right thing.

Discipline is not abusive, abuse is abusive. and lack of discipline is also abusive. Amen to your whole response!!

You are so right. They passed a rule for teacher not to hit children and look where that has gotten us. I teach and we still beat kids for the law of the country has not been changed as yet. But i would tell you that kids started to show there true colors when this so call rule came out. They are doing far more worst things now...

Good for you JessieBee. I'd hate to think that you'd stop doing the right things because of a bad experience with one idiot. One nice thing about living where I do is that most people feel comfortable to challenge your child if they're acting inappropriatly. I have no problem whatsoever with someone telling my child that what he's doing is a bother if I'm not there myself to do it. Sometimes it sinks in better from a stranger too!

GreenMoo, thank you once again, you are one of those people that see things clearly. And no i will not stop doing or being how I'm because of one incident.

Thank you for your comment finally someone who is making sense. Because for some reason others are making excuses for her uncalled behavior. But i will be careful but i am a teacher and it is in my nature to help kids and their parents who have problems with them. And i agree it is a sad world..

You may not have been trying to tell her how she should be raising her son, but that is how she would have interpreted it.

your right, human interpretation is a hell of a thing isn't it... Thank you for your comment.

Thank you for agreeing with me, but i never went about in anyway telling her how to raise her son. exactly what i posted is what i said. But i too learned that day where he got that rude mouth from, when the mother started to respond in that manner.

well said, thank you for your comment.and thank for agreeing with me.

So, needless to say, I don't think that you did anything wrong. Congrats for being assertive enough to speak up. Just because people don't want to hear it, doesn't mean that it's not the truth.

Thank you for agreeing with me