Assault Or....

[B00]

Good old fashioned reprimand given?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3154840/Man-ordered-pay-100-washing-six-year-old-s-mouth-soap-youngster-kicked-pensioner-s-walking-stick-told-f-off.html

[Sqad]

Just look at that photograph of mother and son.........I would give them both a good "thrashing."

[pixie374]

It's the mother's fault. "6 year olds do that kind of thing". Only if they're taught to. But no, that isn't discipline either.

[cupid04]

You'd have to get in the queue...

[wolf63]

Are kids meant to have blue tinged lips? Maybe it was the soap.

[gness]

Boo...if there's a collection for his fine I'll contribute.

Children don't have to swear.....they don't have to behave as this child did but looking at that picture.....I can see why.

I don't agree with smacking children as a method of teaching right from wrong but if they get to this undisciplined stage there's little hope for them.

This mother has a lot to hang her head in shame for.......

Three bars of soap he bought?.......☺

[Mamyalynne]

It is an old fashioned reprimand for foul mouthing , but by a parent to their own child.

[jourdain2]

A proper punishment - no lasting harm done and I would hope that lasting good would be done. So what that he wasn't the parent? In my day every single mum and dad would tick you off (and threaten to tell your mum) if they saw you doing anything mildly out of the way (they did as well). Result - kids not running wild. It was called growing up in a community.

[wolf63]

The 'attacker' looks dead young and the boy and his mum look hard and scary.

What is a personal banker?

[B00]

I can't see it as "lasting good" jourdain, as no doubt the mother told her little darling that he'd done no wrong, after all, it's kids bein' kids innit?

Personally, i'd be a bit miffed that someone else had reprimanded my child and privately tell him so, whilst backing him up within earshot of my offspring....then id get a further bar of soap and finish the job properly ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

The boy should indeed have had repercussions from his Mother and the young man knew exactly who she was and where she lived.


Yes I have been reprimanded by neighbours and chased off with brushes etc but never touched.

[joeluke]

These days some kids have no respect for their elders, and that's down to lack of discipline from parents who couldn't give a t0ss

Brats of that age swear because it's what they hear around the house from their skanky parents

No word of the kids father in the article, one night stand followed by a one-way ticket to Benefits Street?

The man shouldn't have taken the law into his own hands though, his feckless mother should've been the one washing his mouth out with carbolic

[B00]

Joe gets best answer, purely because his last paragraph mirrors my own opinion.

[gness]

Fine best answer. My opinion too.....but looking at them it won't happen.

And I'd still help with his fine......

[jourdain2]

I remember my mum taking a riding crop to some boys who had (very seriously) misbehaved. No comeback from parents and they never gave any other problems.

[Svejk]

Personal Banker is a euphemism, wolf.

[Svejk]

If anything like that happened to us, the last thing we would have done is tell our parents. We'd have had a double dose if we did.

[Mamyalynne]

So now she's lying about her job and is on Benefits Street - I didn't know she was known to you.

I can't comment, I don't know the woman.

[bednobs]

'He sees the boy run across to an old gentleman with a stick and tries to kick the stick away.
'He remonstrates with him to which the boy - who the police, I have to say, accept is slightly out of control and perhaps not the best of young individuals - says to Rian to f*** off.

i know it's nothing to do with hte question, but i absolutely hate the manner in which he said that - what is that tense called?

[mikey4444]

"Alfi's mother said: 'I admit my son swore but kids do that kind of thing"

Speaks volumes ! Well, it does in your home dear !

[andy-hughes]

As usual, with an emotive issue like this opinions are polarised.

Yes the child behaved badly twice, once for abusing an old man with his behaviour, and once for swearing but …

He is six years old, and nothing justifies a physical assault on a child by an adult.

Let’s leave aside the huffing and puffing about ‘in my day …’ and ‘teaching a lesson …’ and try to be a little more enlightened and civilised.

Any child should be taught to behave properly in a public place, but a premeditated physical assault is absolutely not the way to do it.

If the mother does not discipline her child properly, that is an issue, but that doesn’t give carte blanche for any adult who feels like it to decide his own appropriate method of teaching a lesson, and then delivering it with a frightening assault like this – this child is six years old, not sixteen!

We all have ideas on how badly some children are brought up – ‘twas ever thus – but times move on, and this behaviour is now seen for what it is – criminal assault by an adult on a child. He should be ashamed of himself for demonstrating that bad behaviour gets violent retribution, if you are too small to defend yourself.

I would have spoken to the mother – whom this man knows, and left it with her, and if she is lax with the discipline of her child, that is her right, and does not mean that any passing grown-up can pile in with retribution anytime the mood takes him.

A six year old may well know no better – an adult certainly should!