anyway, Harold E Garner, that is THE LAMEST excuse for a child to be disrespectful I ever heard. Oh my Mommy hit my so I just wanted her to know what it felt like? HAHAHA Is that something a kid would say? Sure. Does the child still get punished for hitting Mommy? YUP!

Children need to learn self control, timing, intelligence, and so forth. The child may have felt slighted and angry and struck back (children do that) and it is up to the parent to teach the child that their frustrations should be spoken, respectfully, about whatever is bothering them. The child need to learn to respect others even though they may feel that the other person is not being very respectful. The child also must lean not to bite the hand that feeds you until you can feed yourself… and so on and so forth. I can keep going.

There is no whole story here, the kid should not have hit the Mom. Done deal.

I understand what you mean about how the whole story needs to be told correctly. So now that we know the boy’s side of the story, what was the mother’s?

In general:

I pretty much agree that there is a serious lack of disrespect in a lot of today’s children. It saddens me, because my generation isn’t that far off from their’s and I don’t understand where it all went downhill.

As far as spanking and punishing goes, there is a huge difference between hitting your children and beating them. It also makes an enormous difference when there’s an outpouring of love after the punishment. No child is ever going to doubt that you really do care about them if you do that. My parents spanked me, but because of how they treated me afterwards and every day I never doubted that they loved and respected me. And I was more willing to respect them for it.

She’s the one who “trained” him to treat her like crap and worse-hit her!!!

I feel bad for this child. He’s the one who’s being abused, he’s a child and is only resorting in using the only tools he’s been taught to use while under pressure.

The mother needs to stop “pretending from herself”, that she’s a flippin’ victim.

Can you all see this, too?

She’s awful. She’s using this child to “look” and “feel” like a “victim” so that we could all treat her like a victim and feel sorry for her!!!
She’s an attention-getter by all means.

All that she’s doing is using this innocent child as a means to “victimize” herself- it’s so evident.

And look at us how we’re judging this child who has clearly been
“trained” by his mother to be this way so that she can get the pity that she craves.

What a sick woman and what a poor child who does not know better.

Children are “trained” by their parents, folks.

Children learn how to cope by watching US. That’s how humans learn, look it up.

I’m not defending the actions of the child, by any means.

We are all Perfect, Whole and Complete when we are ALL born—Then we go home to our parents!!!

Man… if i tried to hit my dad everytime he hit me, my ass would look like a big slab of uncooked bacon.

I got my ass whupped when i disrespected my parents and I am eternally grateful to them for doing so.