The Baltimore "riot mom" is being touted as "Mother of the Year" and I couldn't agree more,if more parents jumped in and corrected their children when it was needed the world would be a safer and saner place...but (you knew that "but" was coming,didn't you?) even though she is a hero today,who is to say that there won't be repercussions for her actions at some point? Let's face it if she had been caught on camera doing that on a normal day some do-gooder would have turned her in for child abuse. I imagine there are people who are silently judging her actions and wondering why she didn't take him by the hand and ask him to share his feelings,or walk him out of bounds for a "time-out",quite frankly I don't see as how most of the gentler parenting is making better children,for that matter if violence in the home isn't happening anymore where are these people learning how to riot and be destructive? It seems to me that a balance needs to be struck some where in between the two extremes,obviously no child should be burned with cigarettes or have bones broken for punishment,but hands off parenting doesn't seem to be working either.
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