Spare the rod, spoil the child

[Losty]

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?

You probably also cannot imagine being a pregnant single mother of 2 babysitting an infant and 3 other toddlers. I don't have to imagine it because I lived it. I lived on a really small road the speed limit 10 mph. I would take all the kids out and let them play sometimes. I stood by the road. I'm not an idiot, I knew she couldn't be trusted to keep herself safe. That's why I was standing there, I was honestly surprised that she just stepped out, but I was prepared also.