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[quote=Anonymous]Op, I'm on the "parents who smack their kids are lazy bullies" team. I just wanted to say I empathize with your story.  I was in downtown silver spring a few weeks ago and I walked by two women and a boy who looked to be maybe 4 or 5 (I have a 5 year old DS and he looked about the same size).  The boy was whining, the two women were sort of ignoring him, and then just as I walked past them I  heard the.loudest.smack. It was awful. And immediately after that the boy started wailing.  It broke my heart. Like you, I didn't know what to do. This was on a crowded street in downtown SS on a saturday late morning so there were lots of people around who witnessed it.  I could hear him crying even as I crossed the street to go into the CVS.  I was mad at myself then, and still am, for not saying something to those women.  For the record, I've swatted my kids maybe 3 times between them, on the butt, in the 8+ years that I've been a parent.  I apologized to them each time and said that I made a mistake, that hitting them is no way to teach them how to behave properly. [/quote]

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