Children these days

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Just this morning when i was walking to the bus stop (no joke) this small boy would of been around 5 years old or so came up and called me a "big f****r" I responded" You better watch your tone boy", And where were the parents at the time?! And lazy parents not raising children properly, This is partly the governments fault not allowing parents hit children! Don't they realize there is a border between disapline and child abuse! f*****g morons!

Kids have always been rude.

Here! Here! Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Remember the bully on the play ground who knocked your books and smashed your snow men?(those damn 6th graders <glare>)

he's the kid who you spoke with sir

Well, I've met some really nice kids and then I've met ones where I wanted to throw them out a window. You just have to weed out the good kids from the bad kids.

Children turn into monsters when their parents are not around. They may have good parents but kids are smart to wait until they are not around to break their rules. I was playing outside alone when I was five.

Well I don't think violence solves everything....so i don't see how parents being allowed to hit their kids would help matters. That said I would not get on someones ass about spanking their small child in some situations but certainly not the way my mom used to go about it. Or the way her mom did it to her and her siblings........from what I hear wire hangers aren't fun and certianly did not seem to have any positive effect on my mom or her sister. Her youngest sister probably did not get so much of that since she also has a different dad and her brother is dead so I don't know how he would have turned out.

I do agree children can be quite nasty though..because for one I used to be a kid and the other kids were mean to me a lot. Also, I have had a couple kids say rude things to me which I typically just ignore. But yeah that can be rather obnoxious.

A large number of kids are nasty only because their parents and teachers are nasty to them. They're angry. Haven't you seen the number of threads by teenagers who's parents verbally or emotionally abuse them? Children are born innocent and untainted by all the pressure to be a certain way. Hitting them will only make them worse.

I think if it's done right, it won't effect the child. Some people do it wrong so it leaves the child scarred and critical of spankings and judgmental about parents who do it.

In my opinion, there is no "right" way to hit anyone, especially a child. There are other ways of teaching right and wrong. Hitting is an act of domination through violent manner, yes even a little spanking!

Kids deserve to be loved and guided consistently, not dominated or condescended upon. If they get the guidance they deserve, they will not be obnoxious. Believe me, I've seen it many times!

Beating children only teaches them that violence is an appropriate response if you happen to be stronger than your opponent. That's not a very good lesson to teach your kid. For all you know, the kid who insulted you is being raised by abusive parents who beat the hell out of him, which causes his antisocial behavior and prompts him to act out when his parents are not around.

Anyway, there is no reason why you should allow this incident to bother you. It was a small kid, little more than an annoying little dog who barks at you as you walk by. Someone who feels small and vulnerable, and overcompensates by making aggressive noises. Surely you wouldn't want a dog to be beaten by his owner for barking at you, so why would you wish that on a child? He can't hurt you with his noise. The best response is to completely ignore the child. Or, if you really want to teach him a lesson, laugh at him to show him how little this affects you.

It's because the parents and/or older siblings probably talk like that around little kids. He's probably just reached the age where he knows certain things he hears other older people saying are rude/nasty and he's testing them out. It's fairly innocent child behavior on his part but the older people who inadvertently taught him to talk like that are idiots.

I don't think hitting solves anything but my parents at least threatened to wash my mouth out with soap. I don't recall them following through on that but I did get locked in my room and had certain toys taken away. But then even if a kid is punished he's still going to mimic the way people around him talk when the parents aren't around. The problem is a culture where people think it's fine to talk trash around small children and teach them to act like little delinquents.