Seven-year-old boy throws shoes and stones at sixty-year-old maternal aunt

It's absurd! Parents should teach children how to live in peace and harmony with others! The world is in a war and even our children are participating this war! We must teach our children to be pacifists and the new generation be more peaceful and honest. This is my opinion.

My goodness! What will this kid be like as a teenager then if he is acting this way at seven years old AND being allowed to get away with it? If my own child was to act in this way they would be disciplined so fast their feet wouldn't even touch the ground! It is really shameful behaviour on the part of the Uncle and Father because they should never allow something like this to be happening in the first place. What willit be next? Throwing rocks at moving cars? Someone could end up seriously injured.

That is so disgusting I just do not understand why Parents are not getting a grip of their Children in these Days it makes me sad to read this it really does

When my kids were young they'd never have dared do something like that. Not even to a younger aunt or uncle. They'd have been grounded or had no TV for a week! I guess the parents of this brat don't believe in teaching him respect for anyone else! Most parents don't seem to understand that discipline is an important component of love! Having recently got rid of noisy neighbours (thanks to several others complaining too) I feel for you. He seems to be making life unpleasant for everyone around him.

Hi positiveminded, So where was the mother? that child need a good spanking as tfor the father, he need to be told off for letting his child trow stones at his sizty-year-old aunt, I am disgustted with thier behavour, its the adults fault just as much as the child. Tamara

Oh my that is terrible. There is no way that my kids would ever get away with doing something like that. Their butts would be black and blue if they had ever done that. Parents are supposed to discipline their kids and how the parent did not is beyond me. I also think that if it were my kids aunt they would have put a stop to it as well. This is a case of neglectful parenting in my opinion.

I will give him a good smacking on his bum to see how it feels to hurt others. I would not tolerate such behaviour from him. © ronaldinu 2008

Hi, friend, I feel great to respond to your discussion, but all the way it is shocking to read the inhuman behavior of the kid. I read from the previous two responses, of this topic, that the solution suggested may not work for our country. When the parents ( maternal uncle and father) are witnessing the incident, who is to be blamed? Clearly not the kid, the parents have failed in every aspect of the parenting..not there is no use of counseling the boy alone. When you have to be strict, you ought to be...and no leniency is to be given to the kid when they break the codes of conduct. And coming to your question,had i been there, i would have shouted against the boy's parents, about the gross attitude of the boy against the old lady. Take care friend.

This little boy had to be spoiled and they let him do anything. If they didn't stop him he would have just kept on throwing things. I know that could not have been me or someone in my family. They would have for sure beat that little boy for something like that.

I find this really sad. The fact that the men didn't react is most likely a sign that this is just history repeating itself from generation to generation, and that the cycle hasn't been broken. We teach our children how to behave as parents in the way that we behave as parents towards them. Those men probably don't know how to deal with the situation, because they never learned, so they instead turn a blind eye. The child will more than likely grow up to teach his child the same lack of morals, and so on. It is tragic.

I think there is something wrong with the father and the uncle, I think they're the one who needs counseling or seminar or training on how to discipline a child. The boy is still 7 years old if he will be discipline in a right manner at this age he's still have a lot of chance to grow normally (I mean with discipline).

It is amazing how RIDICULOUS that situation is! The adults are witnessing this as if he were just playing quietly. Im surprised they didnt yell at the aunt about screaming or something because that would certainly fit in with the absurdity of it all! The only time i witnessed a child being allowed to misbehave and disrespect his elders (certainly not to that extent) was because the child had a psychological problem and couldn't really be taught the basics rights and wrongs of how to deal with people. Sometimes he'd be a total sweet heart other times... the devil reincarnated. Is it possible the child is like that as well??

it reallt bothers me when I see parents not attending to their duties by keeping their children in check. Its almost as these parents are afraid of their own children. I don't have children, but if I ever caught or even heard that my child was throwing anything at an adult I would most definetly handle the situation. You can't just let children get away things like that or they will think its okay to do it all the time and even when they get older. It all begins when they are young. So if you raise them up right and respectful they will be that way when they are older.

I couldn't tell you what I would do if my kids did that for the simple reason that my kids would never do that. A seven year old boy must know that's not right and the only reason they would do it is because he's been allowed to get away with it. I have a 3 year old who can be a pain and he is going through a "smacking" phase. Now, obviously this is not acceptable so I am letting him know NOW that it is not acceptable. If he's still doing it when he is 7 then I would take him to a psychiastrist or something to find out what was wrong. I can't believe none of the adults watching did anything but then again it is them who have allowed him to get to such a stage that he would do it.

By the sounds of it these parents are raising a thug who will come to a very sticky end if someone does not do something about him soon. Either some older child will do something to this child or he will cause serious harm to some person nbefore he is much older. How the uncle can sit there and say nothing while some rotten spoilt 7 year old hurts the aunt defies belief. As for the father to sit there and say/do nothing is disgusting and gives "tacit approval" for the child to continue with his bullying ways. Where on earth was the mother while this was going on I am wondering? Surely she couldn't have been at home and been like the rest of the adults and done nothing to protect her aunt. As you say, next time it could be the dog or maybe some innocent person who is just passing by and gets injured. Does this child have a mental incapacity or anything like that? What about siblings? I would hope he does not have any younger brothers or sisters he could hurt with is nasty ways. Somehow I doubt that I could have heard and seen what was happening and not said something to the adults present.

Hi That story you wrote about is crazy ! What is wrong now a days ? You just dont act like that , or let a child do that and think it is ok . What in the world . and why would not the uncle do something . Too many kids get away with so much . You have to teach a child right from wrong .

Hi positiveminded! This situation really sounds bizarre and pathetic! The father and uncle are right there and watching and say nothing. They don't care if this brat throw stones at his aunt. I don't understand what kind of family this is! And that poor puppy! Where is the mother? Or isn't there one? How can they let a 6 year old behave like this and not say anything? This is truly sick! I just don't know what else to say! I guess calling the police is out!

hi I myself am nearing 70 but if it were me the first stone better knock me out or someone better start running !