4 year old shoots his babysitter.

You know, it is time we hold parents responsible for what kids do. They are responsible because if they had raised their kid properly then the child wouldn't have done that. Its time that parents started raising their kids again instead of letting them run wild or instead of trying to be their best buddy.

That is crazy. I seen this another discussion earlier and i had the same questions as you did too. Kids are unreal these days.

did the boy play conter-strike or halo?

so...terrible. i remember that a thing happed on my family last year. my 3 years old carry a knife with angry towards to his grandmother and say:"i 'll kill you if you say send me back home again" . we never told him to kill a person and he only can learn such thing by the Tv. TV acts a terrible role in such cases to misleading the children. just put your kids away from the TV. accomany with them and play with them more time. don't let them watching TV alone.

Yes you are right, its the parents are to be held responsible for such an event. As far i know, the child cannot be held responsible for any such deeds because its still a minor only. What astonishes me the most is how did the child pull the trigger. Anyway, hope such incidents wont occur from now on.

Well there are many aspects in this thing. First of all the child is 4 years old so he doesn't know what shooting and killing and all that is and moreover his brain hasn't matures so he doesn't know what he's doing. There can be a reason for this behaviour of his and that is either he used to watch some brutal some or has seen some brutal stuff accidentally , something really bad might have happnened in their family or maybe their parents used to fight a lot which had an adverse impact on the child's mind. I don't think that TV and other stuff should be blamed for this incident entirely because how many times do we hear such rare cases in our lives with babies? This is the first time I'm hearing. But all over the world children watch TV - but they aren't going killing and shooting about especially 4 year olds. So it isn't the media's fault entirely. There has to be something else to this otherwise why would he do that? The main reasona that I could figure out - I have posted them with the most probable one being maturity.

That's awful! I don't know what to say.

Hmm...well...I guess it is the way kids are brought up these days...the media...the violent books they read and so on that is responsible for this. Cheers and happy mylotting

Oh what a disaster. And who do you think is to blame for the child's behavior? a 4 year old? Of course!! for me? it is the parent's responsibility to teach their children good attitude. Sometimes, kids copied the behavior of adults int he home and most often parents are displaying bad behavior that a small child can imitate. Veru bad..news...

You know, there a lot of things about this story that bothers me a whole lot. First, there's the obvious fact that the four year old shot his babysitter with a shotgun. Secondly...the kid was in the position to not only able to get shotgun easily enough but knew enough to actually shoot the babysitter with it. Seriously, who leaves a loaded shotgun where a four year old can get it? This whole story is horrible on many levels :(

Holey carp! Well...for one, the parents should be held responsible because it's the parent's responsiblity. I just can't believe children these days. There is an eight year old on trial here in Arizona for a double murder. Then, there was the 13 year old (?) that shot his mother because she told him to do his chores. What is going on?!?! I would say it's the music, but children that age doesn't understand that concept. I'm just greatful the sitter will make it out ok. *Pleiades