Do you spank your kids when they accidentally wet themselves?

Hi snoopy,

As I was reading this, I wanted to spank that parents...they are very insensitive! If they were good parents, they can feel right away what's the needs of the kids!

It doesn't mean she can't talk with a friend but of course they have to glance the kids once in a while!

I pity for the baby and I wish those parents will grow up!

wow thats pretty bad. there is no way she should have spanked him. i have given my daughter a swat on the but once or twice for peeing in her pants but when she did it it wasn't an accident. it was her not wanting to stop playing long enough to go to the bathroom. but even that it was just a light tap on her butt, not smacking her and screaming at her. i feel so bad for that poor little boy. sounds like his parents probably treat him and his brother like crap.

snoopy that mom should be paddled for being so inattentive
to her kid's needs. no kids should never be spanked for
wetting tghemselves. my lord how unkind and stupid too.
Parents should learn to listen to their kids when the kids
need to go potty and save everyone from such scenes. that
mom was way out of line, completely.

No, I don't think spanking is appropriate for accidents at all. It shocks me how many parents do this though. I am still having trouble with my 5 year old because this was the method his aunt used with him...she babysat for a time and took it upon herself to try to train him but that's a different story. In the case you saw, it was even more inappropriate because it was the parents' fault he had the accident...not that they realize that obviously, since they were too busy ignoring the child to know what was going on in the first place.

First of all if the parents didn't want to interact or pay attention to the kids they should of gotten a babysitter. That poor little boy tried to tell his parents but they would not little it is not the little boys fault it is the parents because they were ignoring him. He should not of gotten a spanken for that. My daughter is three and we are trying to potty train she does ok one day and the next day she won't want to use the potty and just want to wet herself but i just keep encouraging her to use the potty. I never make a big deal of it because she is a kid and i am letting her be the boss in that department most of the time.

No way! That is one thing that I can't stand! Kids tell their parents over and over again that they need to use the bathroom and get ignored. Then they can't hold it anymore and the parent has the audacity to get mad at the child! Ugh!
I don't know what is wrong with people sometimes!

No she shouldnt have smacked him, im a great beleiver in always listening to my children they know they should wait and be polite if im talking but still im always aware if their need for my attention is greater than me finishing my conversation I actually find it appalling that the little boy felt he couldnt just say but mum i need a wee thats what my daughter would do if ive asked her to wait while im talking.
We should always listen to our children especially while out if she doesnt want a situation like that.
My daughter has had accidents when first toilet training and no ive never smacked her wont get anyone anywhere in my opinion and like I say now she is 4 she doesnt have accidents probably because she knows that even if im talking and asked her to wait while im talking, that im still always aware of her needs and still listening with half an ear.

That poor little boy. I can only imagine how embarrassed he was. No he didn't deserve a spanking. I do believe in spanking a child when they deserve it but he did not. Its interesting that you noticed this child and how uncomfortable he was and they didn't, neither one of them. If they are that could endanger the children. With small children you have to watch them closely, not tune them out.

No!! That child should not have been spanked. I have a 7 and a 9 year old that sometimes need to be reminded to go to the bathroom. That is not to say that they aren't potty trained at there ages, but when I see them doing the infamous pee pee dance, I remind them to stop what they are doing go.

A child at 3 or 4 constantly needs to be reminded and the parents are at fault for not paying better attention to the childs cues. If they weren't so wrapped up in themselves thay would be better able to respond to their childs needs.

No...Never! Kids have accidents. Heck, so do adults. Spanking is not going to help the problem at all. From the sounds of it, the mother may have been to blame anyway. You should praise them when they do well and excercise some patience when they don't. Also some children have small kidneys and/or have not yet developed the ability to hold it for any length of time.