Spare the rod, spoil the child

[John V]

I mean, I'm not saying I think it's wrong. It just doesn't make sense to me in that circumstance. When my daughter was 3 almost 4, she looked right at an oncoming car the looked at me and stepped into to the street. I jerked her out of the street by her hair. I felt awful, but it was the only thing I could reach there was no other option and it wasn't about discipline. The discipline was obvious to me, you can't be trusted to be safe so now you don't get to play outside.

Wow, I can't imagine having a small child near a street and not holding their hand the entire time. Did you really need such an incident to know that a 3-year-old can't be trusted to be safe?