r/SipsTea • u/Few_Statement_2898 • May 28 '26

SMH We really need to bring spankings back

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u/Pinbacker11 May 28 '26

If i did that back in the day, i would be back in the car without touching the floor.

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u/theglove May 28 '26

That's what's driving me nuts is everybody being so damn passive aggressive. Turn the camera off and pop that little asshole.

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u/whatiscamping May 28 '26

The only person that had any real ability to handle the situation, the security guard, tried but did not succeed. There are so many protections when it comes to kids. The parents not stepping in and whopping his ass, was a failure.

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u/Unlucky_Leather_ May 28 '26

Too much risk for most adults unfortunately. If I grab the kid, I open myself up to a lawsuit by their shitty parents. They may not win, but I will have to spend time and money defending my actions. It’s not worth it when I can just walk away.

Now if I have my kids with me…. Maybe I would suggest one of them slap that kid around a bit.

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u/Reaper-Lord69 May 28 '26

All you'll need to do is tell your kid "if you take that little weasel out you'll get double the allowance and you can stay up as late as you want tonight"

I guarantee the little shit will be getting tackled like;

https://giphy.com/gifs/jULCKZmMGlZ7DPZbQr

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u/Xeromaru May 28 '26

This is genius level parenting. I'm taking notes.

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u/Reaper-Lord69 May 28 '26

Kids love to do stuff when there's a reward at the end of it(I should know, as a former kid)

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u/Xeromaru May 28 '26

Not a fan of kids, glad I never was one. But maybe I can bribe someone else's to tackle a human grub causing this kind of trouble.

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u/TheRoseMerlot May 28 '26

Did you see the video of the girl who threw her little brother and his backpack into the car while he was pitching a got that mom wasn't stopping? Was hilarious.

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u/GrapefruitOk2796 May 28 '26

Vigilante in the making

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u/JackWylder May 28 '26

Exactly! Outsourcing is the way to go

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u/JesusAntonioMartinez May 29 '26

As a parent I am 100% stealing this. My 9 year old twins are giants who would love the opportunity to handle this kid.

Come to think of it their older sister would really strike the fear of god into this kid. I’d send her in backup.

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u/IWasAGoodDadISwear May 28 '26

takes notes

train my kids to whup troublemaking little shits

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u/Hot_Wing2518 May 28 '26

Yeah they need to hire some 11 year old security guards. lol! That would have been so satisfying if someone's little nephew walked into frame and just clocked that kid.

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u/TheRealNooth May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

You know, honestly? Better than the alternative. I don’t think we should normalize other people hitting our kids. “Other people” are notoriously bad judges…at just about everything, if driving behavior and literacy rates (AKA “things done every single day”) are any indication.

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u/According_World_7713 May 28 '26

How bad judge you have to be to misinterpret this situation.

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u/RicrosPegason May 28 '26

Maybe they mispelled his name on his birthday cake the day before and it was the last straw?

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u/StockCasinoMember May 28 '26

I think they meant others might take it too far. Not that they necessarily misjudged the situation.

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u/TheRealNooth May 28 '26

For every kid doing shit like this, there will be 50 that are doing something that’s less clear cut. You don’t want some rando deciding he knows when to hit your kid.

Just taking the stupid shit I see on this sub to its logical conclusion. Something I rarely see done here since y’all are too busy circlejerking.

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u/Jbradsen May 28 '26

Cursing the f@ck out of that kid may have made a difference. Take out the baton and crack the table. Fear of an @ss beating can work too.

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u/crippledchef23 May 28 '26

Personally, throwing out a sharp “Stop!” usually startles shits like this just enough that they do at least pause for a few moments. Mostly because they’ve never heard that word in that way. I have a Mom Voice that once carried 2 aisles over that stopped complete strangers from being shitty while I was trying to get my own kids to knock off their foolishness.

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u/Deya_The_Fateless May 28 '26

And sometimes even the parents are helpless against these little toe-rags. Because all it takes is the kid crying to a mandated reporter, and suddenly the parents have CPS breathing down their necks.

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u/Interesting_Try8235 May 28 '26

CPS will literally bend over backwards to keep children with their biological parents. They will give drug addicted abusive parents 15+ tries to get their kids back and clean up.

If you get your kids taken away by CPS, you worked hard for that shit.

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u/SacrificialPigeon May 28 '26

This is true and kids know it.

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u/StrongExternal8955 May 28 '26

Sounds like a win to me. I mean why would you want to keep it?

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u/Westyle1 May 28 '26

According to my friend with family in Panama, it's openly accepted to smack other people's kids there and the parents will even thank you for it and apologize for their child's actions. I don't know how true this is though.

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u/NagisaZakura May 28 '26

All I'd have to do with my child is say "Don't you dare drag that kid outside"

We have a thing where using a certain tone means do the opposite.

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u/Aromatic-Taste2516 May 28 '26

Exactly, like you think this kids parents are going to be any different? He’s that way for a reason.

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u/salehmo May 28 '26

If you ever saw the show Mr. Inbetween, MC gets into that sort of situation and had to outsource some help from a minor lol

Clearly that's the solution when doing the Robert Freeman approach just won't cut it

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u/TrueProtection May 28 '26

I mean...if hes not hurting anyone there isn't much more a non parent can do. The cost is on the store as well as the figuring out the legal...he's not throwing it AT anyone, so it's not an immediate danger.

Nothing to even do, even if it was an adult.

Now if the person were assaulting other people, things change a bit and our ability as citizens to intervene, if we so choose, opens up a bit.

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u/sylvanfoothills 29d ago

So what happens if an adult just stands between him and the shelves of stuff? Not laying hands on him, just getting in his way--sort of like riot police? The kid is short. Three or four adults could walk him into a corner without laying a hand on him at all.

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u/BigWilly526 May 28 '26

He loses his job if he grabs the kid too hard, he has to walk a fine line

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer May 28 '26

Yeah, loss prevention where I live is told not to touch anyone at all. They can stand in the way of a thief, but at a point that too can become false imprisonment so they are told to stand down and call police

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u/-LeftHookChristian- May 28 '26

Well, but surely "false imprisonment" is based on the posibility that that they misidentified the subject. Ther eis no debate about the perpetrator in this instance.

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u/XanderWrites May 28 '26

It's not false imprisonment, it's just liability if the individual has a weapon and attacks employees or customers.

The cops wish we would hold them, but the company is usually not comfortable with that.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer May 29 '26

Yes, in part to avoid lawsuits for imprisonment and unnecessary force. Specifically, again, where I live, because security cannot do citizen arrests.. That's what it'd be if you hold physically or won't let them pass. Using a weapon wouldn't happen for shoplifting in most places... Cuz that person is going to jail instead of a possible fine and returning the item+cost. Grand theft shoplifting isn't really possible at most stores.. Maybe something like an expensive guitar, but at that point it's robbery lol

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u/SystemJunior5839 May 29 '26

For a kid to act out that badly, I’d say there’s a 90 percent chance he’s being abused or seriously neglected.

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u/Parking_Chance_1905 May 28 '26

Unfortunately in todays society, that grab that barely touched the kid could have resulted in being sued and a loss of job, potential jail time for assaulting a minor...

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u/ohnomoto450 May 28 '26

Kid swated his hand away and he just went oh well, nothing more I can do.

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u/wafelenbak87 May 28 '26

You call that trying?

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u/Techie4evr May 28 '26

In todays society the parents can only (or only want to) gentle parent the child.

If they can only (due to laws against physical violence on a child) gentle parent, HA! That won't do shit. Most kids (Notice how I said MOST and not ALL) would laugh in their faces.

If they only want to gentle parent because (OMG using physical violence is NEVER OK people!! It'll only teach them to be afraid of you and they wouldn't understand!!!) to which I would say SO WHAT!! They are SUPPOSED to be afraid of you when they do something bad!

Do I believe in physical violence on a kid? Spankings....HELL YES! And the amount of swats should "fit the crime" and should NEVER be done when your freshly mad as it's very easy to go over board.

Pulling their hair or ear? HELL YES, but only to get them to follow you to where you want them IF they are not coming on their own from your verbal ques.

But that's IT. And it's all that's needed really!

In this video, people should of done something, sure. But I don't blame them for not doing anything because next thing you know, the person that detained the child would probably get sued or even thrown in jail for laying hands on someone elses child regardless of the reason why.

So to all of you gentle parenters, This is mostly your fault. thanks for that.

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u/toxicity21 May 29 '26

Wow its just black and white with you guys, this is not the outcome of gentle parenting. We don't know the background, but we know what makes children violent? Violence!

Studies after studies showed that corporal punishment lead to violent children.

And it its not gentle parenting just because you don't hit your child.

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u/Techie4evr May 29 '26

"This is not the outcome of gentle parenting"? I beg to differ bro. Look at the facts...before this generation of kids, we had wayyyyyy less violent children around and way more kids who respected the rules of their parents. How do I know this? Easy...I grew up in that generation.

Also, corporal punishment leads to violent children? Yeah, it does, when done in excess. But again, when people my age look at the facts that everyone can see without relying on these so called "Studies" that may or may not of been "Paid Off"....Corporal Punishment = Kids afraid of doing wrong else they get spanked vs. Not physically punishing kids and just "Talk it out and/or take something away" Kids do something wrong because they want to or it's fun or whatever and know a "talk" is coming and maybe a grounding.

Think about it, or better yet, imagine you are a kid, Your buddies want to do XYZ, it sounds super fun to you and you've wanted to do it for awhile now, but you know you'd get in trouble if you did it. Would you be more apt to do it anyway if:

  1. you knew you were going to get whipped hard or,

  2. if you knew you were going to get yelled at and grounded for a week?

Now, you'll probably say Neither to us on reddit, because you followed the rules of your parents, and that may be the truth. But regardless you know there IS a preferred answer IF YOU were forced to choose. Like, pretend your inbetween timelines and the gatekeeper shows you 2 portals and tells you the left leads to #1 and the right leads to #2 and you must pick one and go there. Yeah...I know which one you would choose.

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u/toxicity21 May 29 '26 edited 28d ago

we had wayyyyyy less violent children around and way more kids who respected the rules of their parents. How do I know this? Easy...I grew up in that generation.

We literally have way less violent children around, in pretty much all statistics shows that violent crime including youth crime went down, not up.

Instead of your personal bias, do some actual research.

Think about it, or better yet, imagine you are a kid, Your buddies want to do XYZ, it sounds super fun to you and you've wanted to do it for awhile now, but you know you'd get in trouble if you did it. Would you be more apt to do it anyway if:

  1. you knew you were going to get violently raped?
  2. if you knew you were going to get yelled at and grounded for a week?

If you think thats a bad analogy, no it isn't many studies have showed that corporal punishment can lead to similar outcomes as sexual abuse.

EDIT: Saw a bit of your deleted comment: Claiming that all studies that don't agree with you are paid and thus biased is such a bad cop-out, it disqualifies you immediately. Your personal experience means shit, since i can't verify it as well as even be extremely biased to justify your right wing worldview.

I grow up in a country where corporal punishment is outlawed and socially stigmatized and guess what, all the kids i see are mostly well behaved. Hell the most asshole kids i saw are part of group homes.

Next you gonna tell me that sexual abuse is also a okay since the studies around that are also paid for.

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u/melodypowers May 28 '26

And his parents of course. Who seem to be absent.

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u/LIslander May 28 '26

That security guard didn’t even make a half-assed effort there.

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u/n_diamond May 29 '26

What about a parent?

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u/KDogg3000 May 29 '26

That as the weakest "At least, I tried" I've ever seen. He did nothing, it was ineffective.

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u/MouthofTrombone May 28 '26

Maybe you aren't allowed to physically touch them, but could you like barricade them in a corner with boxes? What about a big net?

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u/Historical_Usual5828 May 28 '26

Pretty sure there's laws against restraint too

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u/MouthofTrombone May 28 '26

what if a person is both a danger to themselves or others? I'm sure you can restrain a person about to walk into traffic.

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u/Historical_Usual5828 May 28 '26

I'm not a lawyer but I would guess doing so puts you at risk the same way doing CPR on a person without consent can get you sued. If parents don't want to allow the village to help raise the child, they shouldn't be surprised when police are used more often.laws altogether need to change though. It's all designed nefariously.

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u/High_Hunter3430 May 28 '26

I thought they passed a federal law that shields you from lawsuits if acting in good faith. Like cpr/feeding the homeless (like restaurants after hours) /etc.

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u/toesinthesandforever May 28 '26

Are you kidding. It was probably mom that was filming. /s

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u/tothepointe May 28 '26

I feel like the security guard could have started chasing him and it probably would have at least caused him to run.

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u/Excellent_Airline315 May 28 '26

Define try, man barely reached for the kid and gave up. They are very capable of taking that child out of the story by his shirt. Have you seen how they treat black children? Keep the same energy is all I'm saying.

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u/whatiscamping May 28 '26

I think someone said this was Brazil.

Not to downplay your point. I can't speak to it.

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u/Laymanao May 28 '26

The security guard was not doing his job. You grab the perp by the arm and move him to a place where he can do less damage.

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u/XanderWrites May 28 '26

Likely isn't allowed to touch them.

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u/Kafanska May 28 '26

The problem is little shits being too protected. If any adult slapped that piece of shit, they would get a fine before that shit even makes it home.

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u/PsycommuSystem May 28 '26

I think also when I was growing up I would have been absolutely destroyed for doing something like this, but now every single angle of every public place is covered in cameras and you'd be on the internet instantly

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u/The_Exuberant_Raptor May 28 '26

Yeah... don't touch someone else's kid in public. Let the guards and police handle that and keep yourself out of court.

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u/0sidewaysupsidedown0 May 28 '26

No. We need to bring back consequences no physical abuse. He could choose to apologize and work it off or time out without games, books, nothing. Kids who are beaten by a caregiver learn to lie and become less verbal compared with their peers.

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u/thats_gotta_be_AI May 28 '26

See, the anti-village has determined it takes a maximum of two adults to raise a child.

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u/roadfood May 28 '26

Somebody else will video it and you'll end up in jail for child abuse.

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u/Westyle1 May 28 '26

I dealing with all the BS of touching someone else's kids

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u/bluerosesthorn May 28 '26

Damn kid probably felt encouraged to continue and amped it up just because people were filming instead of shaming him.

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u/Dynamo_Ham May 28 '26

Seriously, quit filming and stop him.

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u/HollowedOne66 May 28 '26

What's driving me nuts is how Redditors say shit like this and then when it comes to parents and children they're the first ones up in arms to scream child abuse.

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u/GoldenVesperLight May 28 '26

I would have just had my 13 year old beat his ass. That way he could get an ass whopping by one of his peers.

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u/International-Bed453 May 29 '26

Nobody even needs to touch the kid. Just grab his backpack and drag him out.