aggressive parents

[thud85]

I don't have kids, but I'll risk coming off as one of those people who criticize what he doesn't understand...

Tonight I was in a restaurant seated next to three children (all under 10, I'd say) and their parents.. Over the course of the 30-40 minutes I was there I saw both parents repeatedly smacking (not slapping...smacking) and violently grabbing the kids. One of the girls was giggling at a face her brother was making at her, and the mother smacked her and said, "Would you stop your giggling? Christ!"
I made eye contact with the mother that time and definitely gave her a "What the FUCK are you doing?" look... and she as much as told me (non-verbally) to mind my own business. So I did...(but what I really wanted to do was take her out back and grind her and her asshole husband's faces against a few rough bricks)

I've been seeing this kind of thing more and more lately... fathers grabbing their kids arms in ways that HAVE to leave bruises, kids looking up at their parents with tears and fear in their eyes... What the hell is some peoples' problem?? I'm a 25-year-old single guy, so having kids is the farthest thing from my mind...but when I see that I want to kidnap every single one of them, buy them an ice cream cone, and give them a hug.

Grinding faces on bricks and kidnapping... maybe I've been watching too much Dexter?