bellringer 9/6/13

     This is a terrible thing to have happen. It is probably good the child was taken away. That parent has poor parenting skills. That probably was not the way to handle the situation. He was right to try to teach the child but continuos slapping isn't the best answer. In the 50's that may have been acceptable because the parent was in control of the child. In that time a child would have obeyed their parent without question. It may or may not have been acceptable to hit the child, but they would not have had too.