If you saw a child hitting your son/daughter, what would you do?
@starlight_starbright (810)
Philippines
September 1, 2011 8:18am CST
Hello fellow mylotters!
I witnessed a rather funny but so serious incident today. There were 3 children playing in the playground. One boy at five and a girl at 4 and the other girl is 6 years old. They seemed to understand each other and were having a great time together. A mom was busy preparing snack for her son. Suddenly she heard her son spoke to the 4 year old girl, "why did you hit me at my back? I have just gotten well from being sick for 3 days." When the mom heard, she came to investigate. She asked the older girl what happened. The girl then told her that the younger girl hit her son several times already. The mom got mad and told the little girl to never play with her son ever. She told her that what she did was wrong and she should not hit someone who plays with her. Then the girl ran away crying. Do you think that what the mom did was right? If you were in her situation what would you do?
6 responses
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
1 Sep 11
considering the age of those childs i think the mother is a little bit over reacted. She could just told the child nicely not to hit her child again, no need to got mad to a little child. If the child is around 10yo. i probably go to the parent and told them to educate their children not to hit another children and if the kid is above 15yo. i will smack the kid and told the kid to tell their parent that i hit them
@Chrystal08 (28)
• Philippines
1 Sep 11
If ever i was in that kind of situation, i would of course rescue my son immediately. I will look for the kid's parent and i will tell the girl's parent what their child did. It will be better if they will be the one to disciple their child. But right in that situation, i will immediately correct the mistake but in a nice manner. I will even ask the question "why?" because it is a given fact that they are still learning the good from the bad. Maybe the little girl doesn't fully understand the consequences of what she did, or maybe she didn't even know it was hurting her playmate.
@starlight_starbright (810)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
Hello Chrystal,
Maybe if the mother is around, the other child would not dare hurting her playmates, right? And if you the mom of the same child, you wouldn't let your child hurt others too. It was somewhat an initial reaction of a mom who doesn't want to take her son's welfare for granted just because of a little girl's innocence, not knowing what is bad or good. But still you've got your point there and it is just right to do that.
@brew2x (3094)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
To be honest I don't know what would I do in that scenario. Maybe I will do what the mother in your story did. Sometimes I act by instinct, and I think as a mother you are protective of your child and one might just tell that kid the same thing that mother said. I will also talk to that kid's parents so that they can prevent that from happening again not only to my son but also to other kids.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
17 Feb 12
hi,
of course, i will get angry to that child because he/she hit my son or even my nephew or niece,but since that is a child i should hit him/her too like what she/she did to my child because it such a child abuse,so the thing i should do is to tell to the child that was wrong he/she should not do that.
@starlight_starbright (810)
• Philippines
2 Sep 11
You are somewhat right on that. Maybe, a mother's initial reaction is to prevent the other kid from causing her son more harm, immediately. Thanks!
@rxranger (19)
• Indonesia
2 Sep 11
i think the actual opinion of the mother has a point. if were in that situation a would ask the children whether it is true that the statement of the child in question by the mother earlier. and if it is true i will apologize to the mother and child. but if all that is wrong then i'll ask mom and child apologized to the child who was crying
