Not the best parental advice

[dvandom]

Overheard today:

Little girl is complaining that her baby sister is hitting her.

Mother: "Why don't you hit her back? You're bigger than her!"

Oy.

Comments

[lord-xiphos.livejournal.com]

Uhh... what?!

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Back when I was around 3 or 4, a neighborhood playmate of the same age apparently realized that he could hit me and I wouldn't hit back. Our mothers had a talk about this, and mutually decided that I should be told to hit him so that he'd stop.

So my mother and I had the following conversation (or something like it):

Mom: I want you to hit John.
Me: [thinks for a moment] Where exactly do you want me to hit him? [presumed thought process; OK, you want me to do this thing. Yeah, OK. Now, let's get into specifics about how I'm going to do it.]

I forget whether I carried it out or not, but if I did it was probably the most mechanically done one-off in toddler history.

[recharge138.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Don't be a wussy, kid!

[andrusi.livejournal.com]

Did she?