Mother Says She Slapped Baby on Flight Over Kick

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A Southwest Airlines flight attendant removed the child from the mother during the flight after she saw the mother slap her and passengers complained.
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maybe she should not have slapped the face, but if she did not do it hard enough to hurt the kid only enough to let him/her know that it was wrong to kick people then i fail to see why this is an issue, im sure if i kicked my mother when i was that age she would have slapped me maybe not the face but certainly on my behind. if i kicked her now she would slap me in the face (and im 18). its a sad day when a mothe cant correct her kid in the manner in which she sees fit (note i did not say beat i said correct) if she thinks that is the best way [to give a light slap] then who are we to judge her?
 
VetA said:
maybe she should not have slapped the face, but if she did not do it hard enough to hurt the kid only enough to let him/her know that it was wrong to kick people then i fail to see why this is an issue, im sure if i kicked my mother when i was that age she would have slapped me maybe not the face but certainly on my behind. if i kicked her now she would slap me in the face (and im 18). its a sad day when a mothe cant correct her kid in the manner in which she sees fit (note i did not say beat i said correct) if she thinks that is the best way [to give a light slap] then who are we to judge her?
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You do realize the size and development of a 13 month old right? (This is not the baby in question -just an image of a 13 month old)
http://patsbabycorner.com/images/img07.jpg
 
I am one of those who thinks to slap ANYONE in the face is wrong. It is degrading at any age. A 13 month old does not understand why she did it, all he knows is my mommy hurt me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think ALL corporal punishment is wrong, I believe it has it’s place, but on a 13 month old? No.
 
The part about the black eye from a dog bite stinks to high Heaven too. I guess with the child only being 13 months old, she’s too short for them to use the “walked into a door knob” excuse. :rolleyes:

Miz
 
VetA said:
maybe she should not have slapped the face, but if she did not do it hard enough to hurt the kid only enough to let him/her know that it was wrong to kick people then i fail to see why this is an issue, im sure if i kicked my mother when i was that age she would have slapped me maybe not the face but certainly on my behind. if i kicked her now she would slap me in the face (and im 18). its a sad day when a mothe cant correct her kid in the manner in which she sees fit (note i did not say beat i said correct) if she thinks that is the best way [to give a light slap] then who are we to judge her?
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Slapping a 13-month old child on the face is NEVER, and under NO circumstances, acceptable. That is not “correcting”, it is “abusing”.
 
dixieagle said:
Slapping a 13-month old child on the face is NEVER, and under NO circumstances, acceptable. That is not “correcting”, it is “abusing”.
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my grandma slapped me on the face when i was 13 (years not months) after using the N word, are you implying to me that my nana abused me, no she did not she corrected me, i learned a lesson that day my words have consequences, words can hurt (they hurt me by getting me slapped, but more importantly they can hurt an entire race of people). that young boy learned that its not right to kick anyone. his mother did not abuse him by correcting him. you dont know the circmstances either (niether do i) but maybe this little boy was being rambunctious, running around, kicking the chair of the person in front of him, kicking his mom the whole flight, and maybe that was the only way to control him. its not abuse to correct your kid, maybe you dont choose to correct your kids like that but that does not mean everyone has to do as you do, and dont try to call everything that you dont do as a parent abuse
 
Miserys_Fence said:
The part about the black eye from a dog bite stinks to high Heaven too. I guess with the child only being 13 months old, she’s too short for them to use the “walked into a door knob” excuse. :rolleyes:

Miz
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heres a note when i first read the article i only read the first bit, i had to go cook dinner for my mother, if she put a black eye on her son, then obviously that is abuse, if she hit her kid so hard and so often that he gets a black eye then thats abuse, but if it is like i had ignorantly assumed just a slight slap on the face for being a hellion then i cant see that as abuse.
 
THis mom obviously needs some parenting classes. You certainly do not slap a 13 month old.

My 15 month old daughter PURPOSEFULLY pokes me in the eye. . . over and over. . . . hard. . . . .

And though I might “feel” like boping her upside the head I never would.
 
VetA said:
my grandma slapped me on the face when i was 13 (years not months) after using the N word, are you implying to me that my nana abused me, no she did not she corrected me, i learned a lesson that day my words have consequences, words can hurt (they hurt me by getting me slapped, but more importantly they can hurt an entire race of people). that young boy learned that its not right to kick anyone. his mother did not abuse him by correcting him. you dont know the circmstances either (niether do i) but maybe this little boy was being rambunctious, running around, kicking the chair of the person in front of him, kicking his mom the whole flight, and maybe that was the only way to control him. its not abuse to correct your kid, maybe you dont choose to correct your kids like that but that does not mean everyone has to do as you do, and dont try to call everything that you dont do as a parent abuse
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My “kids” are 25 and 29, and grew up beautifully without being slapped in the face.
Although I oppose spanking, there are some parents who feel that a swat on the behind gets a child’s attention. However, slapping anyone in the face, for anything, is demeaning and abusive, period.

And again, the child was 13 MONTHS old.
 
There is no way a dog bite gave that child a black eye. Dog bites leave holes like puncture marks in the skin. In same cases whole junks of skin are removed. If the parents feel they have to lie about a black eye than my guess is it’s because one of them gave this baby a black eye. After all why lie about the truth?

There is no way slapping a baby in the face is acceptable.:nope: In fact you really shouldn’t even be spanking them until they start showing some understanding of right and wrong. How can you correct them when they have no clue why you are correcting them? What good does that do?
 
VetA said:
my grandma slapped me on the face when i was 13 (years not months) after using the N word, are you implying to me that my nana abused me, no she did not she corrected me, i learned a lesson that day my words have consequences, words can hurt (they hurt me by getting me slapped, but more importantly they can hurt an entire race of people). that young boy learned that its not right to kick anyone. his mother did not abuse him by correcting him. you dont know the circmstances either (niether do i) but maybe this little boy was being rambunctious, running around, kicking the chair of the person in front of him, kicking his mom the whole flight, and maybe that was the only way to control him. its not abuse to correct your kid, maybe you dont choose to correct your kids like that but that does not mean everyone has to do as you do, and dont try to call everything that you dont do as a parent abuse
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I am pretty sure the child didn’t learn a lesson. At that age, they just don’t have the mental development to understand why they are being slapped and their memory and attention span is so short that all they really know is “mommy hit me” and can’t connect X and Y. Remember, at that age they are just leaning language and are emotional very immature. What you need to do is remove them from the situation or distract. When they are older, maybe 18-24 months, then they start to understand cause and effect disciple. Also, at 13 months old, babies that age are just learning to walk, I doubt he was running around.

The dog bite is bogus too. Once my dog accidentally headbutted me with her teeth (she ran to me really fast and skidded on the floor, she had her mouth open when she hit me in the face, but she didn’t bite) it broke the skin and was more of a scratch–not a bruise. It sounds like a lie to me.

Then again, weird things happen. When my daughter was 12 months old and learning to support herself and walk around holding on to furniture, she tried to balance herself without the table and fell (like she did hundreds of times before). She cried and I didn’t think much of it. Then I noticed she cried every time she tried to stand up again. I took her to the doctor and she had a “compression fracture” and had to wear a cast. I felt horrible. The doctor consoled me telling me the often call them “toddler fractures” because they happen pretty frequently to kids learning to walk. Basically the baby’s bones are spongy (not hard like an adults) and if they step too hard or fall the wrong way it “compresses” the bone like a when you squeeze a sponge. It’s not a true break or crack, but it hurts like one and has to be cast to heal. I still felt horrible.
 
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