Dear Mr. White Guy,
Why do white people feel the need to comment on someone disciplining, spanking, or correcting their children in public? If I wanna go Super Saiyan on my kids or Liu Kang bicycle kick them in their chest for acting up in public, that’s my thing! I mean why do they feel the need to voice their opinion on someone’s parenting when their kids disrespect them, curse them out and call them all sorts of names?
Because you’re a bad parent.
I have personally never witnessed a white person directly comment on another person’s inability to discipline their children in a mature and respectful way. But I’m sure it happens. I have to guess on this one based on the mind set of most white people I know. Parenting is a job that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Physically abusing a child is wrong no matter what your skin color. So while I know you were comically exaggerating the Liu Kang kick, I do know that some people take that ish too far. White people (along with many other things) feel it is their job to save the world. For better or worse, white people (with a little money – not the really poor one and not the really rich ones) really want to help. So when we see a child being abused in public it’s our duty to say something. But not too loud and certainly not so that you can hear it 
Seriously though, everybody has a philosophy on how to raise children. I don’t “beat” my kids but I don’t have a problem lighting that ass up for them if talking isn’t getting their attention. I also don’t mind letting my 3 year old whine and cry if he feels the need. I just refuse to listen to it so I make him sit in his room. I don’t tolerate disrespect and I don’t tolerate disobedience but other than that, he can do whatever he wants. He’s only going to be a child for a short period of time and I just want him to enjoy it. Of course that doesn’t mean he can write on the walls, or break random ish, but if he wants to watch tv, eat in the play room, play on his leappad, and crash his monster trucks into each other, well hell, go ahead, just don’t do it without me. If we are in a store and he starts acting up he knows the drill. I’ll take him to a private place and light his ass up. All I really need to do is threaten to take him there and it usually gets his attention. So if you are Liu Kanging your kids because they are embarrassing YOU, you may want to step back and check YOU. If you are TEACHING them through disciplinary actions and you are confident that what you are doing is in the best interest of the child and not your own shatty image, then screw what white people say about it. Right?
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My mom's motto & mantra was "where you show out is where you get laid out". We knew what the deal was before we left home for she never let us get to our destination without "the speech". If anyone, black or white, had the balls to "correct" my mother on her disciplining her children, well, that would have taken things to a whole 'nother level knowing that lil firecracker of a mom I have. LOL
I don't comment or think badly of parents disciplining their children in public. It's the ones that allow their children to run around like wild animals without regard for anyone around them that pi$$es me off. Rude, unruly, disrespectful miscreants…UGH. Keep them at home please and thank you.
"It's the ones that allow their children to run around like wild animals without regard for anyone around them that pi$$es me off. Rude, unruly, disrespectful miscreants…UGH. Keep them at home please and thank you."
Oh Lawd. Throw in their frazzled mother chirping at them to behave like a frightened squirrel, and you have one of my childhood memories. Witnessing that shyt, that is.
"where you show out is where you get laid out".
STOLEN!!!
Dear white guy;
Its those parent who don't "light" their children up enough at home and then take them in public and let them ack a damn fool that make me want to falcon punch the parent…that usually makes the kid STFU real quick because kids are intuitive enough to know they are next.
*Co-sign 100% with ChocI8t *
I have to disagree about the bad parenting. If a child acts up in public , then they have every right to get spanked in public. If a child is not corrected then and there it's simply sending the message that it's OK to act up in public, because Mama ain't gonna do nothing in public in order to save herself from embarrassment.. Shoo embarrass me Imma embarrass you right back . I remember my oldest son showing out and I swatted his bottom a couple of times after letting him know I wasn't having that kind of behavior in public, and some heffa tried to give me a spiel about how I was going to be sorry. I kindly told her to go home, read Proverbs 23:13, and lick the undercarriage of a donkey's gonads when she was done.
Because that self-centered person wants to introduce you to their superior parenting methods. (heavy heavy sarcasm, I mean chopping off a piece with an axe heavy sarcasm.)
My favorite is the Lift and Squeeze. That's when you pin their arms to their sides, lift them to your face and squeeze their arms while talking to them eye level in low tones. They cry because you've got their arms but other people think you're just scaring them cause they don't notice the death grip.
Like Russell Peters says, "Somebody gonna geta hurt real bad."
All I will say AGAIN is kids are like inmates. They got nothin but time to test you and figure out your weak points. You repeat yourself 6 times about doing something, those muhfuggas aint scared of you. You aint about to do shiet.