Is it wrong for a mother to hit her child, particularly in front of company?
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TadowScott — 4 years ago(August 06, 2021 03:39 PM)
When I was seven years old, my eight-year-old cousin's mother repeatedly struck him with her high-heel shoe. This was while they, along with his 16-year-old sister, were visiting my mom and I. He kept bothering/hitting his sister who kept telling him in an annoyed tone, "Stop it!!" and such. Their mother heard all the ruckus through the bathroom door, to which she hollered his name in a soft, motherly "you better behave yourself; I'm warning you" kind of tone. But he wouldn't leave his sister alone. Next thing you know, she walked out of the bathroom with her shoe in one hand. As soon as her son saw that "weapon" upon her approaching him, he flapped his arms and backed away out of fear, shouting "No! Nooo!" She went postal on his ass, and I don't mean that literally, because she randomly aimed wherever she could on his body, which left him crying while sitting on the floor Indian-style. My mom and I awkwardly just silently looked at him with a SMH look on our faces. Honestly, I feared for my cousin's life whenever I was around him and his mom, as I was scared ****less of her and thought to myself "Please behave yourself." I wasn't afraid she was going to hit me, as I was very well-behaved, but was rather traumatized by the sight of HIM getting hit. My mom never hit me, as she was raised oppositely. Fast forward 30 years later, my cousin now has five kids by five women, and wears an ankle monitor. Is his mother to blame?