lolwut?

wait... What?

omg f*** off seriously, obviously you weren't taught to behave as a kid.

Seriously, WTF?

75- and your username shows what you were taught as a kid.

oh my, not a spanking! god forbid! No wonder the generation after me is so messed up, they were their parents' best friends.

My parents used to hit me every time I made a grammatical error. And I could've been normal. *Shudders* Oh, no! I began a sentence with a conjunction! *Shuts hands in oven*

Nothing is wrong with it; just make sure it's your kid when applying this corporal punishment to his/her rear.

I agree. nothing wrong with swatting your child when they are acting up. The large amount of parents who refuse to do so to make their kids mind is what's wrong with this world! When you fail to teach them right from wrong as a child how can you expect them to do the right things when they are grown?! As far as spanking the wrong child...fail! just fail! Pay more attention to your child!

Hitting your child just because he didn't want to leave isn't really acceptable, especially not in public. You should of just told him "fine I'm leaving you here" it does work it worked with me and it works with my dog when I'm walking him there are other options than hitting.

children are not dogs, sorry to burst your bubble

sorry to burst your bubble, but I study psychology and children are quite like animals.

I kind of agree, OO should've threatened their child first.

read some books about raising children. not a single one will condone any type of violence not even a spanking. what's wrong with you.

actually my mom used to spank me when I was little and it didn't help at all she then stopped and I started listening to her. not all people respond to spanking

ohhh so when someone doesn't understand you, you proceed to hit them great people skills

OK some SERIOUS words needed here. For a start, psyschology? PFT! There's a piss poor excuse for a subject right there. It's all based on a bunch of twats and their opinions who expect everyone to think the same way as them. All these books on raising your kids are based on these stupid philosophical theories, and that's just it, they're THEORIES meant to be TESTED not taken as gospel truth and become lifelong rules. In the TESTING of this theory of not smacking your children that we've been experiencing so far, it is absolutely clear that these theories have FAILED. Looking at the behaviour of children and adolescents these days, compared to the days in which smacking was common place it is quite obvious that this new age discipline, such as naughty chairsn from some super nanny who has no kids of her own, does not work. I'm not saying bring back the cane in schools since that's taking it a bit too far but if you look back to when it was used and realise the students actually had respect for their teachers and behaved themselves compared to nowadays where theyre absolute bastards, it presents a very strong argument for strict discipline compared to the fluff being proposed these days, and I'm wondering when it is these stupid theories are finally going to be declared false and fail. This woman did not ABUSE her child she swatted him, and swatting in public is more for the embarrassment factor than the pain, and deters the child from mucking up in future because it is embarrassed and knows the consequences. And there's the main word to sum up this argument: consequences. This new age piss of only rewarding when the child does something good, and not disciplining when they do something bad is all well and good when the child FEELS LIKE behaving, but there is nothing to stop them from misbehaving if they suddenly get the urge to do something naughty. Now that I've had my two cents worth, I shall put on my armour and wait to get bombarded with hate from new age mums raising tomorrows criminals

I agree with you. all children need discipline a good structured one @ that. what the f we can't beat our children like back in the good old days which I feel is wrong. I know I got my ass whooping handed to me when I was younger why can't our kids get it to.... the op made a mistake but I hope she at least apologized.

right, then when you use 'I'm leaving you here' so many times they call you're bluff? then what, 'leave' your child? Sure you're putting on a show, but maybe your child gets kidnapped while you're 'gone' teaching them a lesson.

I'm not saying you walk you off completely just slowly and headed direction even hide and make them think your leaving or telling them there's stuff to play with at home aswell or put his favourite film / programme theres always a compromise even saying fine an extra 5 mins then if he didnt you gently smack thank you 5 for fixing my burst bubble.

I mean 93 it's just the principle you defiantly wouldn't like to be smacked if you didn't want to leave somewhere.

Agreed! Lol

@93 sorry to burst your bubble but you study psychology

You don't seem to understand how Social Services operates.

Your mother should discipline your keyboard habits. The poor keys probably cry themselves to sleep because of your mashing.

I think most would say she is a bad mother because she didn't know it wasn't her kid. You just know they had the same coat; this other kid could have been a different race, height, or weight... I mean, how many parents can pick up a kid (squirming no less) and not see that it's not their child? Maybe if she was focusing on the face instead of the coat, her actual child would have been the one "swatted", and this would not have been an FML moment.

Spanking is not the only way to discipline a child. It will lose effectiveness if you apply injudiciously. That's why OP was not being a good mother. I've spanked my kids but not just because they want to play. That isn't "bad behaviour" that warrants swatting. The kid's actions were natural. If he threw himself on the ground and had a kicking and screaming fit, swat away.

30 i don't think she picked him up, i think she walked up to him and just swatted him as he's playing

I was under the impression it was the same squirming child prior to the swatting.

yeah he squirmed out of her arms ran back to the playground and she followed him and swatted him while he was playing, what she thought was him anyway...

she had already told him it was time to go. and he squirmed and ran back to play how do you not see this as bad behavior. I'm thinking you are not a mother. don't judge and say she is bad just for swatting her kid for bad behavior.