Roger Stephens has it all wrong. He was in a Georgia Walmart store when a child started crying. He approached the mother and told the mother to shut the child up or he would do it for her. The mother didn’t, or couldn’t, stop the child from crying so Roger Stephens slapped the child. Haven’t we all wanted to do this? I don’t think that he did the right thing, but I can point to a few times where I wanted to belt a kid who was acting like a brat. The problem, aside from the kid not being mine and possibly going to jail like Roger did, is that we shouldn’t want to slap the children. We should want to slap the parent.

If you are a parent and you can’t control your child then you are the one who deserves to be slapped. I’m not saying that this woman couldn’t control her kid, but all too often I have watched mothers and fathers try to pacify kids who are acting like little brats instead of actually applying some parenting skill to how they deal with the child. The kid is screaming and the parent is basically standing there doing absolutely nothing. The kid isn’t the one at fault. The parent is. The parent needs the beating.

Unfortunately for Roger, he is going to jail. Maybe his mother should have slapped him when he was younger and then he would know better than to put his hands on someones child. We all want to do it, but slapping someones kid is very stupid. Poor parenting is very stupid too.