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Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
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i would love to walk up to her and ask her if she needs help to try to deflate the situation. Maybe try to engage her in a conversation and agree about kid's behavior and then suggest a better idea on how to handle the situation. (a, "what i do is this")
I'm not sure I would actually do it but I sure hope I have the nerve to if it happens.
Carla
I would not get involved since I have more to lose than gain.
Sadly, I have seen it and I have walked away.
Sadly Ditto to Patr. Sometimes I think that getting involved and saying something to the person might show them a different way but likely not. If they are angered in the first place they are not very likely to listen to reason. It would likely piss them off further and more damage might be done to the child when they are out of sight.
It's odd i experienced this the other day. But I was the parent ( I was not verbally abusing my child though) My son had run off in the store, when i finally caught him, I grabbed his sleeve and kneeled to his level. He has trouble making eye contact when there is a lot around him, so i was trying to get him to focus. By repeating his name and asking him to focus. This women stopped and glared straight at me, and tapped her foot. I turned to her, and said, "I'm sure you behaved as a child too" then i went back to my son, I asked him if he was making good choices, he told me no he wasn't. I asked him what the good choice would have been, he told me, he needed to ask before he ran off. The women stayed and stared at me. As she walked away she said, i expected that to go different.
Granted if she had stayed and nosed into our business a bit more, things would have gone different, and I would have probably told her to butt out because i wasn't doing wrong. But I know she was being a concerned citizen, even though it was really irritating having her stand by us and listen in.
I would probably butt into an arguement if I saw a child being abused in any way. I had an issue with a mom while I was waiting tables. She would snap at her children to say please when they asked me for something. She even smacked one of them on the arm to tell me please when they ordered their dinner. When it came time for her to order, she ordered but didn't say please. I stood there for abit, she looked at me and snapped WHAT, i told her Say Please.
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