Saw something disturbing at Montgomery Mall yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100 bucks says they are black.

Where I grew up, they'd be white. Here, black. Different cultures, same stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100 bucks says they are black.

Because?

[Anonymous]

Wrong, 60 year old white woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baby was fine. Did not even whimper. Was not slammed into the door. It was a two year old being irrationally stubborn. Woman just overreacted.

So now I think you are making it up or totally exaggerating because in your original post you said: and the baby's head hit the door jam.

Her head either hit/slammed/bumped the door or it didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have called security and told them what happened. That poor little girl needs someone to speak for her when she can't. Slapping a little girl, practically still a baby, across the face is wrong. You wouldn't slap an adult. But you can slap a child? Um, no.

Umm, yes, she can. You wouldn't, and I wouldn't, but parents can and do slap their children.

Belts work best , not on the face though.

I'm very pro corporal punishment, but I wouldn't have slapped for that, geez.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe try next time to help another parent/grandparent with the door. She had her hands full, literally.

+1

OP you need to be less off a sh*tstirrer and more of a human being. Palin and simple.

[Anonymous]

Baby's head hit the door jam. Not slammed. Baby did not even react.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baby's head hit the door jam. Not slammed. Baby did not even react.

That doesn't mean baby wasn't injured.
Just want people to be clear about Maryland law- if discipline by a parent or person acting as a parent consisted of "excessive or immoderate force" person can be found guilty of common law assault and battery. See Anderson V. State, 61 MdApp 436.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baby's head hit the door jam. Not slammed. Baby did not even react.

Please stop calling it a "door jam". The word is "doorjamb." I tried to subtly correct your error in my earlier post but you keep on spelling it wrong. I also agree that you are changing your story. If a baby's head hits a doorjamb, the baby could be injured. Doesn't matter how hard you think it was; this was an infant.

[Anonymous]

I'd never ignore something like this. Never.

[Anonymous]

I'd have gone over and been like "Oh my god, I HEARD that - is your baby's head okay? And YOU cutie - you must feel terribly! Accidents happen though, I'm sure you didn't mean for that to happen, right?"

Then I'd address the woman again. "Are you okay? I get so upset when one of my kids gets hurt."

Basically talked out everyone's feelings for them.

[Anonymous]

why do people keep having kids if they cannot handle them???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baby's head hit the door jam. Not slammed. Baby did not even react.

Please stop calling it a "door jam". The word is "doorjamb." I tried to subtly correct your error in my earlier post but you keep on spelling it wrong. I also agree that you are changing your story. If a baby's head hits a doorjamb, the baby could be injured. Doesn't matter how hard you think it was; this was an infant.

I don't think that poster was the OP. It was an armchair analyst, so the OP was not changing her story.

[Anonymous]

Old people should not take on the task of caring for such young kids.

Too much physical + mental stress.

However that does not excuse her reaction.

Keep in mind that she could be from another culture.
And generation of course.

While it would be tough to do so, I don't think there is much you could have done.

[Anonymous]

All this post is is gossip. It's not accomplishing anything. If it wasn't bad enough for OP to say or do something at the time, we shouldn't be discussing it here. We weren't there, no sense in speculating.