The hideous white hypocrisy behind the Baltimore “Hero Mom” hype: How clueless media applause excuse

[Mother Of Four]

289. When my children were much much younger...

My father and I had a discussion about discipline. I was and still am against any form of corporal punishment, talking about it my father (who rarely ever spanked me at all) posed a question:

Say you have a daughter, she's a first or second grader and is playing outside with her friends. She has waist length hair. The ball or toy they are playing with tumbles into the street and she takes off like a deer after it. Her friend see's the large truck coming that your daughter doesn't, there's not enough time to call out to her risking her not stopping and the only thing the friend can reach is your daughters hair. She snatches her hair bringing your daughter to the ground, a little hair pulled out with some skinned elbows.

Your daughter comes running into the house, crying that her friend pulled her hair and showing you the scratches. The friend tells you about the toy and the truck, that they were scared she wouldn't stop.

Do you judge that friend of your daughters based on the tears, scratches, hair pulling and fuss them out? Or do you wrap your arms around both of them? Do you tell the friend how brave they were, and how scared they must have been for your daughter?

I would wrap my arms around both of them, thinking how grateful I would have been that my daughter is ok. Life is rarely so simple, you must always look at the totality of the circumstances.

Quote: In the heat of such a moment, what parent knows how they would respond?

We as citizens I think have an obligation to wrap our arms around this mother and understand just how terrified she must have been to react that way. Real, palpable, physical harm could have taken her son from her. Do we judge her for "pulling his hair"? No. Should we do all we can to keep her from EVER being that terrified again? Hell to the yes.