With all of the violence and rudeness in today's world, parents should be teaching their kids how to behave and treat each other with respect. But one mother instead decided to teach her toddler, who appears to be around 3 years old, to throw punches like a boxer -- at another toddler. The woman, who remains unidentified because no charges have yet been filed, videotaped two young toddler girls fighting while she shouted encouragements like, "Got some action!" and "Y'all better ball up some fists!" The toddlers scream hysterically while slamming their little fists into each other. You can probably guess what happened next -- the woman posted the video to Facebook.
After posting the video, one of her friends saw it and sent the video to a local television station, KTVI, in St. Louis, Missouri. Said the woman, "In the black community ... it's really sickening that these kids are learning how to fight, getting guns and stuff ... it shouldn't be going on." She added that she hoped the child was taken away from her mother until she can "better herself."
The TV station handed the video over to child welfare officials, but they would not say if the mother is being investigated. In the video, she is laughing in the background and seems to think there's nothing wrong with what she's doing -- which would explain sharing it with her pals on Facebook. The friend who handed the tape over to the TV station said she thinks the mom is "training" her daughter for school.
Maybe the mother thought she should teach her daughter some fisticuffs for daycare. Or in case she got a bully in kindergarten, she'd be prepared. I'm not excusing the situation, what she is doing is teaching these kids to be violent. Not to mention that the girls could have seriously injured each other. Plus, kids aren't roosters to be put into a ring to fight it out for adult entertainment. In fact, that shouldn't be done to roosters either!
But I don't think the mother thought she was doing anything wrong. Maybe the kids had been fighting previously and she wrongly imagined encouraging them was funny and would get it out of their system. Who knows. The tragic fact is what she is teaching these young toddlers is probably what she was taught herself.
Here is the video of the toddlers fighting. Be warned it's disturbing.
Do you think this mother needs to go to jail -- or needs counseling? Or both?
Image via KTVI
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I do think she should get in trouble just like the rest of the BAD PARENTS in the world!!!!!!
This is pathetic. There are plenty of people in the world who would love to be parents and would make amazing parents yet cannot concieve.
And yet there are people out there like this who are having children and mistreating them. It does not seem fair.
I hope that DSS does investigate, and I hope that her children are removed. And placed with a family who will care for them the way they should be.
Pathetic... thats all I can say..
Its one thing to teach a child to defend themselves its quite another to encourage fighting! I could defend myself with out being encouraged to hit someone else. I think both the mother and the girls need some councleing. and If its a case where these Little Girls need protection then maybe someone should look at the situation they are in and help not judge.
I do have to say (I was raised in a family of 5 girls) my parents would occasionally let us "duke it out" as long as there was no blood and it didn't escolate. We were also much older and they definately wouldn't root us on, but I believe that we taught eachother a lesson. Especially when it came to tattle tails and stealing each other's toys. We learned limitations and strength to a degree.
This video is just sad, the fact that mother's are condoning violence and rooting these young children on.
I think it's wrong that she is saying that it is ok and is agging it on but I don't think the kids fighting in general is what is so wrong...i've got 3 older brothers and they didn't care that I was a girl but my parents also let it be known that we do not hit ANYONE if it wasn't in self defense and also taught us how to block a person from hitting u rather than just hitting them back so I think that she should be scared a little in the sense that they should know how to defend themselves but they should also be taught that it isn't ok to fight unless it is in self defense...b/c there is hardly anywhere now days that a parent can move and not have any sex offenders within 5 miles of their home...and not to mention the ones that haven't been caught so it's sad that she is agging it on and much less thought it was smart to post a video like that but not as horrible as her beating her kids which is the case in some violence oriented homes so it's a big deal but not...