What would you do if an adult hit your child

[Breadcheesebread]

Without going into too many details.

Two 6 month olds were playing, one ended up hitting the other on the hand, accidentally.
Neither reacted, carried on playing.

The mother of the one who was hit, said 'I saw that' and lightly tapped the hand of the child who had hit her child.
She then turned to her own child and asked if she was OK. Her child stared blankly at her.

The poor kid who had just been hit by the adult looked so confused.
The mother of the one that hit his friend accidentally was so shocked she didn't say anything.

If it was my child, it would take all my strength not to slap the woman.

Or is that unreasonable?

[DeepThinkingGirl]

What she did was wrong but not abusive

I would’ve spoken to her and told her that I don’t descipline my child in this way

[Nofruitta]

I would tap her on the hand and say I saw that. Touch my child again and I will need to be arrested.

[DeepThinkingGirl]

and if probably never allow my child to play with hers and let her know that

“You need to be tolerant to babies flapping their arms else it’s not reallya child friendly place for me to take my child”

[Deadpoet1]

If another adult had hit my baby I'd be in prison.

[Geamhradh]

@Pongo101

I remember when a random man in a cafe got down on the floor to tell my one year old dd off, with a finger in her face.

Something just came over me from deep inside and I just stood up and started screaming at him to get away from my daughter and who did he think he was etc.

The whole cafe went quiet and everyone was just sat there staring.

If someone had physically touched her I would have likely stabbed them in the face with a fork.

And this is relevant how?

[Geamhradh]

@Deadpoet1

If another adult had hit my baby I'd be in prison.

As would most of us.
Didn't happen to the child in question though.

[feb2022]

I'd 100% hit the fucking roof!

[Pongo101]

@Geamhradh hi thread police

I know how I was angry enough when someone decided to shout at my baby, so never mind if someone physically touched my baby.

So if I were that babies mother I would have done a lot more than just say something.

But if you don't find my comments relevant just read and move on. Or are you just bored and lonely this Saturday morning?

[Geamhradh]

It's not me spamming threads with irrelevant anecdotes tbf.

[OlympicProcrastinator]

I’d snap her fucking fingers back. It depends if it was actually a hit though.

[Mumoblue]

I’d be furious. You don’t even “tap” other people’s kids.

[feb2022]

Regardless if the woman "hit" the baby or not... stay the fuck away from other people's kids!
Especially now the way the world is

[BaronBlueBottle]

I’d have picked my baby up and walked away.
My mother smacked my dc aged 4 and I never spoke to her again, she died last year and whilst it was shocking there’s a large part of me that’s relived because I never have deal with her again. We lived very close to each other so seeing each other happened fairly often. The anger I felt towards her didn’t waver in the 5 years prior to her death