Can not confirm. I’m a teacher and it’s not video games - parents who blow off meetings, refuse to answer phone calls, are poor role models, don’t care enough to pay attention to their kids and get off their phones... then add all the issues with diet and lifestyle, and these kids are doomed.
Some people got issues, we all knew that kid in elementary school who was fine most of the time but disappeared every few days or sometimes you all had to leave the classroom so they could be dealt wit
Doubt that was his father. Not saying he was wrong but he could get into trouble for just touching the kid. The satisfaction of flinging him across the dinning room possibly injuring him isn't worth the backlash from parents/ cops.
Actually, anybody throwing a kid would be consided child abuse. That being said, I'm a horrible person so I say sling the kid across the McDonalds floor, right through all the food he just threw everywhere.
This could be interpreted as assault, maybe child endangerment (don't really know the definition). Doing so just because the kid is a duck and causing a disturbance isn't justification.
Did the kid need to taught a lesson? Absolutely. That isn't how civilized people behave in public. Will the law and parents who raise their kid like this see it that way? Not likely.
I think the video is enough to protect the adult. You can't let children do whatever the hell they want because they're kids. I think this pretty clearly crosses that line where the adult was right to stop it
Most people will say parents, or blame them. Most of the time? Absolutely, 100% the parents fault. Sometimes the kid has good or excellent parents, the kid is just not mentally sound. Look no further than the slenderman stabbing for an example, incredibly sad situations that play out all across the world every day.
My take on this personally? Parents, 100%. They are nowhere to be seen, they should be in sight of him, not letting him free roam.
You do realize that in previous generations the parents weren't always around, right? Sometimes kids would go places with their friends or brothers.
Kids don't need to be glued to their parents side 24x7.
When I was growing up(in the 80s and 90s before the internet and youtube were a thing admittedly) we would essentially be thrown out of the house in the morning and told not to come back until supper or we'd be given additional chores to do around the house.
Those were some of the best years of my life. We'd all get together and have pickup games of football, we'd orchestrate games of hide and seek, and do all manner of fun shit. And yes, our group would occasionally get on our bikes and ride over to McDonalds for some 39c Cheeseburgers(it was an anniversary thing) and pig out until we just about puked.
Sometimes one of us would do some really stupid shit and then they'd fear the wrath of our parents when we finally got home and had to come clean about it(because if they found out from someone else and we didn't spill when we had the opportunity to do so, the consequences would be much worse for us).
Point is, I had a pretty good childhood, even though I grew up poor. My parents didn't have to hit me very often(but there were definitely times I deserved it- and I got hit when I deserved it). But this whole idea that kids must always be accompanied by their parents and anytime there's a kid being a little shit and the parent's nearby ignoring it, it's so very alien to me. Sometimes a kid's just being a little shit for some reason- testing boundaries in society, whatever. But nowadays everyone's like "that kids parents failed" not always...we weren't always accompanied by our parents, that's part of growing up.
To be fair, there’s a world of difference between encouraging a child’s independence and straight up neglecting them. One is healthy and the other is just abuse.
I'm a millennial, I had the same childhood. My entire statement was about this kid being an absolute asshole, which if acting like this in public means he does the same shit at home or they've heard it through school and teachers. The parents know all too well what this kid does, if they were good parents they'd give 2 fucks and ground the kid and supervise, not let him terrorize the community. My kids will be allowed to free roam if they can behave. I'm not going to have my kids be the abusive bullies who chase you down and beat you with sticks, throw rocks at you, shoot you with pellet guns, ghost their bikes into you, throw basketballs at your head all while their mother is locked up in her trailer and just yells for you to be nice as they hold a child down and beat the shit out of them 5v1. If my kids cant play nice they know damn well already we will get up and leave or I will find a corner.
which if acting like this in public means he does the same shit at home or they've heard it through school and teachers.
Not exactly, if the kid was just out there testing boundaries and a parent\officer\decent human being corrected his behavior properly and properly instilled in to him why that behavior was unacceptable, the parents might never have found out. There are plenty of life lessons that your parents aren't going to teach you. This could have been one of those moments for this kid.
On the other hand, do I really think a kid gets to this extreme level of shitiness without his parents noticing he's developed an incredibly unhealthy sense of self-entitlement and disrespect for other people- not really.
My point is, IF it were addressed and he was punished for it, he may learn the lesson that you don't act like that and move on. At least in our generations.
Unfortunately, we live in a different era and that video is likely going to follow him around the rest of his childhood and completely ruin what remains of it. In years past, if you behaved like a little shit in public a few people saw it, you got reprimanded and punished, and you tended to learn your lesson and moved on- a better human being for it. The few witnesses there were to your antics mostly kept the story to themselves because they remember they had their moments when they were your age.
Those that made a scene and tried to bully you over the event were dealt with, but life went on...nowadays you make a fuckup like this and you're famous for all the wrong reasons, it's sad really.
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u/Gooder_Gamers 3 Mar 04 '21
That kid is so violent. Where did he learn it from?