I had witnessing something like this. I went to the hair salon for a quick trim.The woman who came after me had her son with her. I would say he was about 5 or 6. She was agitated because the beautician was late. She complainedto me that she had things to do etc. She handed her son a capri sun pouch and told him not to drink it. He opens it anyway. The entire time she's telling him she's the boss and she's tired of him not listening to her. He finishes the pouch and then she goes off! Yelling that she is going to beat him. He starts crying. She spans him on his legs, arms all while yelling at him. The little boy cried and she tells him she's doing to give all of his juice away because she is tired of him not listening to her and thinking he's in charge. Afterward she looks at me and tells me she doesn't know what to do because he won't listen to her and he had a drink pouch an hour earlier and this was for after the salon visit. Perhaps I should have kept my big mouth shut but since she chose me to vent to I told her that kids have a hard time with impulse control and if she didn't want him to have it until she was going to leave the salon she probably should have kept it out of sight. Oh, I forgot to mention.THe entire time she yelled and spanked him she told him over and over how greedy he is
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