I will be 52 when my son graduates high school. I am okay with that.

awww yeah! Just had my first baby four weeks ago and I'm 35!

When my kid asks me where babies come from, I'm just going to say "When a man and a woman love each other very much, the woman puts her hand on her stomach. Then a stranger takes a picture and publishes it. That's how a woman gets pregnant."

I'm also willing to bet that they didn't have snipers when they went to arrest the actual white robbers.

To be fair he is a black man. While white people tolerate blacks, they generally think they are dangerous requiring higher scrutiny. Its good to remind them of that with demonstrations of force lest they return to wilding and knockout games.

Because militarization of the police.

SNIPERS on his front lawn? For (what turned out to be false) alleged robbery? Jesus Christ.

you a DAMN lie! a damn lie!

Not only do you not have a point, you're also a fucking idiot.

Because maybe he was a non-verbal, large 2 year old, and if the mom had done what moms did in the past with non-verbal kids - get his hand, give a quick slap to the hand, so he can associate hitting his mother with pain - people would call CPS on her for child abuse.

Pretty much. I ignore it and my kid stops, I react and he throws a bigger fit. Don't understand it at all.

Reward the good behavior, ignore the bad. Sounds crazy, but it works.

I don't think most parents "let" their kids hit them. Most little kids go through a hitting/biting phase. You're supposed to restrict their movement or ignore or act visibly hurt. But you can't just haul off and smack the kid back, you know?

He probably did think about the baby. He probably thought about the baby being at daycare.

Yep. I'm willing to bet he wasn't the parent who usually dropped the child off at daycare. The brain is wired to be on autopilot for routine tasks. It's so easy to forget that your routine has changed.

Agreed. A lot of people may delude themselves into thinking they could never do something like this. But in reality, almost anyone could.

I can't imagine the unbearable pain the father is in. Unfortunately, its not something that happens due to negligence, it's more due to how our brains can go into "autopilot" and forget seemingly important things. I wish we could figure out a fool proof way to stop it from happening, some sort of censor that might…

Until they're as cold as your frigid heart, you nasty bitch!

So...like overnight then?

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