I honestly think that people nowadays are just looking for something to get angry about. No matter what you do, there’s always going to be someone that gets so offended and enraged by the mere presence of a different opinion that calamity and chaos will break out, according to them, just because someone isn’t going out of their way to be a nice guy.
And I have never seen more dangerous territory in this regard than when it revolves around children.
Let me be frank; it is wrong for an adult to be cruel to children. They don’t have the experience or strength to take on an adult, and so it’s incredibly cruel and dishonorable to take advantage of that. And if it’s a parent abusing their child, that is ten times worse, because that child’s trust is being taken and stomped into the ground. The problem is… what qualifies as child abuse nowadays?
When I was at work today, a man came in with his daughter. The daughter was probably 4 years old, and clearly didn’t want to be there. So, halfway through their trip, she starts having a tantrum. The father didn’t scream at her. He didn’t hit her. He just took her by the arm and led her out. And yet, as he exited, another patron raced up to him and started giving him a piece of his mind. Why?
“He had tugged on the child too hard.”
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What? It’s come to the point where ‘pulling a kid along’ is now child abuse? People used to spank kids for discipline, and now pulling a kid along is child abuse to them?
With people like this, it’s no small wonder why no one wants to deal with children.
A friend of mine has stated that kids who get lost in stores are essentially on their own, because anyone that sees them and wants to help will be scared stiff that they’ll be accused of kidnapping the kid when they’re only trying to do a good deed.
It’s great that people are trying to make this world a safer place for children. But when it gets to extremes such as this? You’re going from protecting the kid to spoiling them. If they constantly get protected from being disciplined and understanding rules, then they’ll never understand right from wrong. They’ll become entitled, and constantly expect these same people who defended them when they were young to do everything else for them.
So, I’m not saying we shouldn’t try to make sure the world is safe for kids. I’m saying that we need to act mature enough to be guardians to these kids. And yelling at a father for pulling his kid along is not mature. Save your energy for the actual monsters.