I have to say, I am curious about the lobsters.

"Please, go sit down, Gaga. If this is the best you can do, it's over."

Newspapers feel better against the skin than satin sheets. Just ask any hamster.

This is why I wish Jezebel would stop getting its panties in a bunch when a prominent female celebrity is asked whether or not she is a feminist and then she answers "incorrectly." Gaga famously answered like the remedial rich-girl dope that she is (and it is continually amazing to me that someone whose parents spent…

Yeah, that's kind of the least of the reasons to not like R. Kelly...

I have gone from loving Gaga to being absolutely repelled by her. The incident with the woman vomiting on her and now this Terry Richardson/R. Kelly disaster? Please, go sit down, Gaga. If this is the best you can do, it's over.

I agree hitting back is probably not a good solution, but it sounds like the situation the OP witnessed also didn't involve movement restriction or acting hurt or even bothering to call the kid on the behavior. I don't think it should be a big deal to, say, hold the kid's hands, look them in the eye, and say firmly,…

Alot of parents have become so liberal and "let's just talk it over honey" parents that discipline has gone out the window. My kid NEVER hits her mom, I won't tolerate it. You can't ignore bad behavior and hope it goes away. "It's just a phase" is BS, it's just code for "I really hope it just goes away on it's own"…

I've intervened when I've seen children hit one of my relatives and the parents didn't do anything. I didn't touch the kid, but I did grab the kid's hand and serve up some words that the kid absolutely understood. The parent was pissed at me, but the episode has not happened again.

Sadly, I have a grandson that is on this path. Beautiful, smart, and not well disciplined. He will rarely eat solid food, but is allowed to help himself to capri suns (to the tune of 8 a day) all he wants.

I'd say the non-action is a way of not hitting and not screaming at the child but not having a response plan when they do get out of line. Unfortunately, when people decide not to use corporal discipline on their child there's a possibility that they don't then consider what to use in its place. I'm not advocating…

I see it all the time representing juvenile defendants. All the time. Attitudes, etc., escalate in to hitting. I imagine the parents who let these little kids get away with it are raising kids like my clients who come in at 14, 15, and can do real damage.

That's BS. Somehow my four children learned with a firm NO and a smack on the hand that hitting mommy is something you don't do. And they didn't turn out to be angry little abusive assholes, either.

My friends have a 4 1/2 year old who was aggressively hitting her father one evening when a bunch of us got together. She was the only child there, and thank god because I can't imagine how she would have been if other kids were around to steal her thunder. She was running around the house like bull, throwing fists…

Thanks for posting it. I was beginning to think I was crazy with people saying there is nothing you can do if you are avoiding CPS provoking behaviors. People who work in day care have roomfuls of kids like this and they don't spend all day dodging swats.

Our kid's in the hitting stage and we are constantly correcting her and making her apologize. I can't imagine "dodging" her swats and not doing a thing. smh

Why do parents allow their kids to hit them??? I was waiting in line at a store and a kid who looked to be around 3 had a pacifier (he seems a bit old for a pacifier, but maybe I'm wrong) and when his mom took a book out of his hand to put it back on the shelf, he slapped her in the face. She didn't do anything! …

Yeah, like the time I ran into an ex and he had a tattoo of my face on his arm. I was not pleased. And we are never, ever, ever, ever getting back together.

Even if it wasn't R Kelly in the video/song with her, how does one not go "damn this is a terribly awful no good very bad idea for a video theme?"

That's one of the only good things about super gross people: They start to stick to each other after a while in easy to manage clumps.