ANSWERS: 17
  • I think it would have been smarter to simply take the balloons away. That way they could be used as a reward later.
  • I think that what she did was very appropiate ... The little heathens wouldn't settle down and share ; so she took them away .. destroyed them. Maybe next time it will be a more expensive toy and the kids will think twice before having a fit over who gets it IF they believe that she might destroy it .
  • great idea, its not as if ballons are rare
  • Lol, sure I love popping kids balloons and watch their dreams shatter face over plastic & air! :D
  • LMAO!!!! its a bit harsh but she spends 24/7 with them! I would have laughed, but only cuz I have 4 kids and know why she did it.
  • Of course it was appropriate. People have the idea today that kids shouldn't be disciplined. The kids were misbehaving. There's a consequence in life for bad behavior. The best time to learn this is when you are young. It makes for a more balanced individual. This was a very mild form of discipline, and maybe the kids learned a lesson.
  • Ive done it. My oldest daughter wouldnt stop antagonising her sister with it so i popped it. She was PISSED lol but I dont care. Kids need to learn to listen. I find its all to common with kids these days that they can just do whatever they want whenever they want and their parents dont discipline. If the world continues as it is today with lenient parents then i dont want to be here in 20 yeats.
  • nothing wrong with taking something from kids that they can't figure out how to get along to share or play with...however, i would have warned them first...maybe she did. i don't care that she popped them...they have a short life span anyway and there will be more balloons in their lives.
  • I think it's fine.
  • I think that was a good solution. If kids can't play nicely between them with a toy then neither of them deserves it.
  • Ha ha ha! High-five to Mom. That's an excellent solution. That'll learn 'em. ^_^
  • Cruel and unusual punishment, only instills more trauma on the kids
  • excellent....I bet they'll think twice about fighting over balloons....had I known then what my kids would turn into as teenagers I'd have broke all their damn toys...lmao...not really...but yes, I agree with the discipline...
  • i think it depends. on a different day she might have just taken the balloons away. she was just probably at the end of her rope. i know i've felt like that with the kids before. worst part is, mom ends up feeling worse over the popped balloons than the kids, but they gotta learn somehow. ++
  • That depends, how long had they been fighting? Had she warned them to behave and share and that she would pop them if they didn't? I think doing it out of the blue without first trying something else or at least warning them is kind of well a little freaky. Also age comes into it, a little one will be more upset than an older child.
  • Yes it was very appropriate if they learned the lesson. "If you can't learn to share or play nice then you have to live without". As long as warned the kids in advance that if they didn't stop fighting she would pop them and she explained to them why she did it. Then is a nice simple approach and preferable to smacking them. That's tough love. However, if she just went up to the balloons and popped them without communicating anything else then, no, that is just pointless and mean because the kids would not understand why it happened, that is bordering on emotional abuse.
  • I agree, take them away rather than popping them, and then let them earn them back.

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