Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#1
"A bored toddler's mum couldn't believe her eyes when an assistant in a Spalding high street store smacked her daughter's bum for knocking some items off a shelf.
Angela Cropley said she had gone into Boots in Hall Place with her eight-month-old son and three-year-old daughter and needed help finding some soya formula.
She said: "I had just found out my son was lactose intolerant and usually the staff are very helpful.
"I went to the pharmacy counter and spoke to a lady there. She seemed to know what she was talking about and managed to find what I needed as I had no clue.
"While we were talking, my daughter started to get fed up and was playing with things on the shelf and knocked a couple of items off.
"I went over to pick them up and while I was bent down, the woman smacked my daughter's bum and told her she was naughty. I didn't believe what I saw and just said that I would pay for anything that was broken and left."..."
http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/latest-news/mum-puts-boots-in-after-her-daughter-is-smacked-1-4955448
"Vigilantism, UK-style: a Boots worker stepping in to smack your toddler"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/04/boots-employee-smack-toddlerIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
difficult to picture someone having the brass neck to smack someone else's child.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#3
I agree that it should have been done by the Mother, but so many parents nowadays let their kids run riot - in shops and restaurants; I find it irritating in the extreme to have kids running all over the place and making a nuisance of themselves.
Oh for a child-free zone.
Roger
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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#4
Blimey roger that says a lot
now getting back to the case in hand
There is no doubt it is not in the remit of this staff member to take such action, and leaves herself open for court action
it is the job of the parent, and it sounded like the parent was dealing with the situation.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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#5
I tend to agree Roger, I have had meals ruined in the past by grizzling or noisy young children. I just wish the large pub eateries would have separate areas where young children are not allowed.
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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#6
We'll be sending them up the chimney next!
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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#7
or down the mines,if we had any left.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#8
I take it then that some are happy having their occasional meal out ruined by grizzly or rowdy children, all I asked for is a baby/toddler free zone after all these places are big enough to provide such an area.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#9
Griffins Head at Chillenden is child-free. Mind you, Jerry the landlord could have been created by Roald Dahl......
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#10
I wonder what afternoon tea is like in the local eatery "Eva's"?
If an establishment wishes to attract young mothers as customers it is the least they could do to accommodate their offspring.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#12
the problem is more with the parents than the children in most of these cases, in some cases lack of parental control and more and more of lack of parental interest it seems to me.
to many people text messaging takes precedence over listening to or playing with their offspring.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#13
Dead right Howard.
Giving children no guidance whatsoever on behaviour, will encourage them to grow up doing exactly what they want and to hell with other people; it will (and has) created a very selfish society of people who have no consideration. Good behaviour costs nothing only a bit of self discpline.
Roger
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#14
OK, let's just suppose the assistant smacked the wrong one...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#15
your merry quip is not far from the truth alex although not in the case of the mum in boots.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#16
Was that kinky boots, Howard?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#17
i was wondering who would latch onto that peter, i was wrong and accused brian.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#18
i allways get the blame.
