jeez, take it down a notch. or twelve. child abuse is not okay. nor is physical abuse of any kind okay. And he may very well be potty trained. He technically peed in public rather than wet his pants. I feel there was control there, just a misunderstanding based on the sigh the kid read. which by the way I'd a fear in itself. I couldn't really read until around the first grade aka 6 years old. And I struggled to excel with until like the third or fourth grade. So while the lack of sense that pee8ng in public is bad.. especially public buildings, the kids intentions were to do good...I mean.. he's 4. Not like 8 or something. Give the kid a break. sheesh.

Spoken like someone who doesn't have kids. He obviously is potty trained, or it wouldn't have been an issue because he'd be wearing a diaper.

How about we smack you?

Discipline does not equal abuse. I'm not advocating beating children or anything. It's the mentality of it. All you really have to do is tap them. But the threat of you doing it again will make them stop and think. If you're leaving bruises or any type of mark you're doing it way wrong. There's no reason to ever hurt a child, but scaring them into obedience is a totally different tactic

I had to laugh at you thinking "scaring them into obedience" is okay, 23, even though it isn't funny at all.

Whether you believe in spanking or not, this is no reason for it! The child had a misunderstanding and thought this was what he was supposed to do. Simply explaining to him would fix the issue. Please don't have children of you would "slap the shit" out of a child, especially one who just made a mistake.

I was a fluent reader at age 3. It's called homeschooling.

How would you know? Every kid is different.

My nephew could read by the age of 2. He didn't speak for a long time but we knew he COULD speak (and simply chose not to) because we would hear him sounding out words to himself when he read. He will be turning 4 in April and I have seen him actively trying to teaching his 1-year-old sister to read as well. He can read because we taught him to. If a kid doesn't learn to read until they go to school, it's usually because their parents haven't bothered to sit down and teach them.