Motherly...Instinct?

That is crazy. If my child was being attacked by anything I would do something! I wouldn't really know what to do in this situation since I have never been around monkeys but I would try to do anything! I wouldn't want my little one to get hurt...I would try to help a strangers child also if they were getting hurt, I hate to see any child being hurt.

I'm not sure what I would do at first. I may be scared of the monkey too but I would grab something to try to free up my child from being attacked. I may be in shock at first though, not knowing what to do.

Fear affects different people in different ways and this is the case here. The mother was afraid of what was going to happen. No-one knows really what they will do when confronted with danger. We all have an in built reaction to either fight or flee in the face of danger. When my second daughter was small there were two incidences where I was some distance from her and she was in danger...I saw what was happening and I froze. I was unable to move, literally, on both occasions and I was also holding my breath. Both occasions ended with no harm coming to my daughter but I was a mess for some time after.

Maybe the Mother was abused as a child or as an adult and the fighting reflex was beaten out of her. I have a friend whose adoptive children had to come to her defense. She was being beaten. She had been beaten by her husband and if she offered any resistance, she was beaten twice as much and told to just take it next time or she would always be beaten twice as much. My friend is bi. So this time, she was being beaten by a girlfriend she was living with. She offered no resistance, not even to block the hits. Her girlfriend was double her size around (think 100 lbs versus 200 lbs). Her adoptive children were terrified that she would be killed. So one (skinny one) ran for the phone an calld 911. The other one (heavy) tried to block the blows and push the heavy woman away. Both of them were surprized and afterward asked her. "Why didn't you defend yourself?" The girlfriend ran through the woods when she heard the sirens. She came back with two men and wanted to fight again, but the men didn't want to fight teenaged girls. 3 against one skinny woman seemed a bit much, too, to them. They thought my skinny friend beat her up and they were there for the fat woman's protection. That's what they had been told. So one girl got a baseball bad and the other one got a phone. The guys were saying, "We're just here so she can get her stuf." So my friend said, "No one has ever stopped her from getting her stuff."

So it seems the mother is enjoying the scene, pretending the monkey is playing with her daughter. Nah, I will never miss that chance. Yes, the instinct of helping strangers is always there- what more with our own kid. So bad of her then.

I think that mother's values are messed up! I'm with you (even though I'm not a mother), if there was a kid getting attacked by anything, even a monkey, it doesn't even have to be my own kid for me to protect him/her. My natural instinct would just kick in (I think). There's something seriously wrong with that woman!

I would try my very nest to help also if at all possible. I am sure it would shock me for a moment and I would be scared to be hurt too but you have to do what you have to do sometimes.

Oh my, even if it wasn't my child, I would take action. Was perhaps the mother in shock? That would be the only thing to stop me from helping the girl..I hope the child is okay..

Whether this was my child or not, I would want to try and help this little girl out, or make sure that someone was going to help her out. I don't understand why no one, especially her mom, didn't even try to help her out. I just can't understand. After all, this is a little girl, who was scared and being attacked by a monkey.