Note to You, Mom

At Brookfield Park, watched a woman smack her 18-month-old on the behind five times, hard enough to almost knock him down. He had repeatedly asked her for grapes. When she told him that there weren't any, he stomped his little foot once and frowned. That's when she hit him.

"I'm not going to put up with temper tantrums today!" she shouted in his face.

Ma'am, if you could just learn ONE parenting technique, it would be awesome. Just one. Implement it consistently. I promise that your life will be easier. And I won't want to grab YOU by the arm and see how you feel when I hit you in the butt five times.

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