On a general note, every mom would be pissed off at a stranger who disciplines her kid in public, right? But not Karen Alpert, who instead thanked the parent who disciplined her son while in the play ground. “Awww shit, guess what happened at the playground today,” Alpert wrote on Facebook. “Some lady I don’t know at all tried to discipline my kiddo. And here’s what I had to say to her.”
In her blog post, titled “Dear stranger who disciplined my kiddo at the playground today,” Alpert explained that her son was “trying to do the monkey bars” at the same time as the stranger’s daughter, who was slower, so her son “had no choice but to go past her and sometimes bump her a little and she would fall and be all sensitive and start crying. So no, I wasn’t there, but does that give you a right to discipline my kiddo? Does that give you the right to talk to him sternly and tell him to knock it off? Does that give you the right to act like you are the person in charge when he is actually MY child? Ummmm, yes. YES IT DOES. I didn’t get the chance to say this today, but THANK YOU. Because if my kid is acting like a douchenugget and I’m not around for whatever reason, you have my permission to tell him to knock that shit off. I’m not saying you have the right to touch him in any way or yell at him uncontrollably (only I’m allowed to do that), but please feel free to tell him to stop being a jerkwad if he’s not waiting his turn to do the monkey bars. … Because even if you aren’t his parent, you are the adult. Which means you are smarter than he is. And yeah, I know there are probably a-holes out there who would be all pissy about some stranger getting mad at their kiddo, but not me.” Also, she believes that raising kids “takes a village.”
Now, only if all moms are so understanding, there wouldn’t be any kids who are spoilt brats and jerks. . Way to go Karen Alpert.
By: Archa Dave
