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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am still shaken from this and am wondering what was the right thing to say/do (if anything). This mom was in the parking lot, loading her kids into the car - she put one child who looked to be 2 or 3 in the car, and was tending to her younger kid who was in the stroller. The 3 year old starting wailing from the car, not saying anything, just that annoying scream-whine that kids do sometimes. She ignored it/him for a couple minutes, then abruptly threw the door open and yelled, “DO YOU WANT ME TO BEAT YOUR STUPID A*$?! GET IN YOUR F*****G CARSEAT!!!” It was beyond jarring and, obviously, awful. She looked up and realized I was staring at her in alarm (I was standing next to my parked car, maybe 15 feet away and had been there for a couple minutes, unloading my kids). She didn’t say anything and went back to what she was doing (a minute later I heard her mutter, much more quietly, to the 3yo: ‘do you want to get f*****g heatstroke?’)

I’m certainly not claiming I’ve never lost my temper with my kids but this was pretty shocking. I felt torn between asking if she/everything was okay, or giving her a piece of my mind, or calling the police for a welfare check (…I did not do this, ftr.) or just minding my own business. Not that this matters, I would have been shocked no matter whose mouth it came out of (again, to a TODDLER!), but she was a very normal looking mom; put together, clean and driving a nice-ish car, young but not crazy young (30ish maybe?)

I can’t stop thinking about it and wondering if there is something I should have done. What would you have done or said (if anything)?
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I wouldn’t have said anything.[/quote]

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