The news recently showed a women who was caught on a car wash camera spraying her toddler with a high pressure car wash hose in the face and legs at close range. The mother was later arrested for child abuse and the child was sent to her grandmothers until further notice. The women said that she was displining her child and that she had done it before with a spray bottle. A witness said that she only noticed what the women had done after she saw it on the camera but she had heard the mother yelling at the girl saying that she will respect her, she is her mother. The car wash worker also said that the pressure of the water coming out of the hose is strong enough to cause marks similar to a rug burn.
To me this seems a little harsh as a punishment. I don't believe hitting a child is the best way to teach them a lesson. Especially if your trying to teach the kid not to hit his sister. I've had a few friends whos parents hit them and all that was acomplished was putting a sense of fear and anger in them, not respect.
Although I can't say that i would never spank my child if i were to have one but at this point in my life i don't think spanking is a good lesson either. Some people use the excuse that they have to spank the child because they are to young to understand what they did wrong through words....so their suppose to understand why they are being hurt???
What are your thoughts?
The local station here demonstrated what those washers can do at the range she used it, and it disintegrated a loaf of french bread in a second, completely removed all the flesh from a peach, leaving only the pit, and it disintegrated a carrot. A big hard carrot!
Totally out of line.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
That seems like child abuse to me. There are certain limits you must put on discipline.
My parents never hit me, and rarely spanked me, and I have the utmost respect for them and we have a great relationship.