Naughty Mom and Proud of It

When mothers fess up on truuconfessions, I take the position that they're venting about minor transgressions not bragging about bad behavior. But occasionally, a confession like this one bubbles up to the surface and makes me wonder:

I just slapped an ignorant, judgmental, loudmouth spoiled selfish childfree bitch right in her mouth. My son came up to her and said HI and she said, 'ugh, your hands are dirty so don't touch me" and I came over there and told her shame on you for hurting my son's feelings, and then called her a bitch and walked away, she called me a "stupid breeder slut" and I turned around and SLAPPED her right across the fucking face! OMG that felt great. She called the cops, and they didnt' do ANYTHING because I know them. LOL dumb bitch! NO one hurts my son's feelings, or I will ATTACK.

I confess that I, along with TMC readers responded with a collective gasp -- most, berating the mom for her irrational behavior and scolding her for being a terrible role model for her son. Readers acknowledged that yes, the woman insulted her (no one can argue that "ignorant breeder slut" isn't a verbal slap) but shouldn't a mom teach her child to respect personal space?

Needless to say, this confession and the continuing conversation took the "is it ever ok to give another mom parenting advice" issue we discussed last week to a whole new level. And it also pulled back the curtain on a simmering tension between moms and the childfree that often comes up in the confessional (and runs rampant on a childfree forum on livejournal.com)

What do you think? Do you sympathize with this mother who became violent in defense of her son? Could you imagine yourself going this far?

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Comments

[MerhabaAbi]

A slap. She didn't cause any real harm. I'd say getting slapped is an emotional attack. A real punch, now that's different. And by the way. If your cologne is strong, you're physically assaulting many people a lot worse then a slap would do.

[markysgirl5]

Why are you giving this behavior any credibility by posting it? What that woman did was not naughty, it was criminal and she pretty much admitted it! That child was not in need of defending because he was never in any danger to begin with. The verbal slapping started with the "bitch" comment. It doesn't take much to guess how this kid is going to turn out given the example that's been set for him. Why couldn't this woman just take her child's hand and walk away from the situation? That someone would take pride in this behavior is just flat-out shameful. Fortunately I don't know any parents who would act this way or condone it. I guess I'm lucky.

[aryssabrooke]

Like I commented on truuconfessions, I really think this mom was out of line. Kids are known to be germy. She overreacted to a woman wanting her own personal space. And how on earth did she know that the woman was childfree unless there had been previous conversations, or parts of this particular conversation that the woman has left out? I don't think we got the whole story here.

And how horrible is it that this woman, who has been assaulted, had no recourse because the assaulter knew the police officers? What does that teach this woman's kid in addition to the lovely lesson he's already learned - that it's okay to slap someone who hurts your feelings verbally - it's not what you know, but WHO you know?

The entire debaucle was a horrible example of how NOT to parent. She wasn't sticking up for her kid. She was teaching her kid that people who hurt your feelings should be destroyed. Much like a recent president.­. aye? Then again, why are we surprised that this is the mentality of many in the country?