Wow, are parents really this protective these days?

[bledd]

that's what my mum always said to me "someone could kidnap you and keep you in a cage"

many a time tesco had to call her on the tannoy system

 

[gillywibble]

I think there comes a point when you need to reveal dangers in true context, but not with a child of five.

 

[HamZilla]

Knock yourself out.

http://www.murderuk.com/child_killers_thompson_venables.html

Just read this, knowing I shouldn't as it would upset me, and it did.

 

[jas72]

I'd take your mum and son over the ones that seemed to be following me around the supermarket yesterday...

Mum: Stop that nathan
Mum: Stop that nathan
Mum: Stop that nathan
Mum: Stop that nathan
Mum: Stop that nathan please
Mum: Stop that nathan please
Mum: Stop that nathan please
Mum: STOP THAT NATHAN!
Mum: Stop that nathan please
Mum: Stop that nathan please
Mum: Stop that nathan
Mum: STOP THAT NATHAN!
and so on...

I dunno what nathan was doing but his mum needs to either give him a slap or shut the hell up.

Unfortunately the public have decreed that you can't slap them

You don't want social services on your back. From hearing from friends who have had dealings with them they are a shower of scum.

However I can understand the temptation to protect. I tense up inside when my 3 year old goes down stairs at the creche but you have to let them have their independance. I only insist that I go in front of him but sometimes he goes first. I constantly have to remind him to watch where he's going he's so absent minded... hehe.

 

[Badboy2k3]

Just read this, knowing I shouldn't as it would upset me, and it did.

I did the same earlier

Can't blame the mum tbh!

 

[Its_Me]

Something to make you feel good for the rest of the week.
Go donate £1
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/

 

[LordSplodge]

Strange choice of words from the Mother I must say.

"Stolen"

Welcome to the State of Fear that is instilled in people (mostly from The Media)

Kids are fat and have no social skills because if they dare play on the street with their chums (instead of on the PS3 ) all the axe murders, paedophiles and Climate Change will kill or steal them.

I'd take your mum and son over the ones that seemed to be following me around the supermarket yesterday...

Mum: Stop that nathan

I dunno what nathan was doing but his mum needs to either give him a slap or shut the hell up.

Tell him once and if little Nathan does it again he gets a smack on the backside and be damned if some people in the supermarket are shocked.

Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove is the way to raise children and be damned what people or the Social Services say!

 

[JBuk]

snip

nothing wrong with it at all

my nephew who is 5 is also warned in a similar way

hes always told what the consequences of his actions could be , he listens, learns and rarely misbehaves

 

[bledd]

Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove is the way to raise children and be damned what people or the Social Services say!

too true

teaches respect from a young age

 

[riddlermarc]

We tell our 6yr old son to be wary of strangers and NEVER answer the door lest there are strangers there. He knows not to go off with people he doesn't know but the hard bit is defining who is a "stranger" and who isn't (teacher etc)..

As a previous poster said, kids DO get snatched and I'd rather our son be a little bit wary than get snatched.. it's so scary being a parent sometimes, you can lie awake at night and worry non-stop about these sort of things

 

[HangTime]

I've got far more time for protective parents than neighbours who sit around drinking and smoking weed while their baby is shoved out in the garden bawling it's eyes out, or locked away starving to death like that kid on the news the other week.