Mom of eight Kate Gosselin was photographed putting her hand over one of her five year’s mouths, and In Touch reports that she smacked him and then held his face. It looks like she just held her hand over his mouth and not like she was slapping him. Kate was photographed spanking one of her younger daughters, and has defended herself with a staunch “I discipline as I deem appropriate.” It’s not such a stretch to say that she smacked her son and then covered his mouth, but the photos don’t show him crying or anything and it doesn’t look that bad. Here’s In Touch’s take:
On January 15, Kate was seen grabbing Collin after picking up him and his siblings from school at around 2 p.m. “Collin started talking to people around them, and Kate wanted him to keep quiet. She looked like she was about to lose it and smacked Collin in the face and then held his mouth!” and onlooking tells In Touch, adding, “All I know is that I wouldn’t treat a 5 year-old like that….”
With the messy divorce behind her, why is Kate resorting to physical violence now? According to a friend, the mother of eight is struggling with being a single mom. “Kate’s not just stressed, she’s completely overwhelmed,” her pal explains. “She is trying to do her best with her new life,” adds the friend, “but it’s proven to be much harder than she imagined.”
[From In Touch, print edition, February 1, 2010]
I have a five year old and I wouldn’t hold his mouth like that, but everyone “disciplines as they deem appropriate” as Kate would put it. She doesn’t take smack and she will administer a smack. I’m really against corporal punishment as I think it gives kids the idea that it’s ok to hit. Why would you hit your child when you tell them at the same time to play nice with others and not fight?
In Touch also has the detail that Kate is hurt that Jon is moving on so readily – and so frequently. Their “insider” says “Kate doesn’t want Jon back, but she is amazed at how quickly he keeps moving on. It makes her wonder if he ever had any real feelings for her at all.” Jon needs a girlfriend to support his lazy overspending ass and he’s found another gullible one. Jon and his latest 20-something fool, a girl with rich parents named Morgan Christie, were spotted at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this week. What’s Jon doing at Sundance? He’s probably trying to score swag and living high on his latest girlfriend’s money. You know he called the paps himself. Splash News often has “exclusives” of Jon and he’s got the photographers on speed dial.
Photo credit: INFphoto.com
I don’t see a smack, I see restraint.
Other than that, she looks good.
You can tell she is telling him to be quiet while she covers his mouth.
Oh please. I don’t care for her but if all the responsible and loving parents out there had cameras following you around 24/7, I’d be willing to wager you’d have at least one photo like this.. It looks like he just got a little pop on the mouth.
I’m all for corporal punishment as you cannot reason with a young child. As long as you aren’t beating them then I think it’s OK. I got spanked as a kid and I just KNOW I would have been absolutely insufferable if I hadn’t, and I love my parents to death and am glad that they loved me enough to teach me right from wrong, in the way they thought best. Maybe if more parents disciplined their children we wouldn’t have so many unruly, terribly behaved little hellions running amok in public. But it’s a personal choice as a parent and I wouldn’t condemn someone who doesn’t spank their child, just as I would hope that they wouldn’t condemn me for spanking mine. I think people need to mind their business and do not understand why everyone is so concerned with how others raise their children. If the kid is well-behaved and acts like a human instead of a feral beast then I don’t care how you discipline them, just as long as I don’t have to hear it screaming and see it running around when I’m trying to have dinner or whatever in public.
Maybe…it just looks like chaos in general, though. Poor woman…a single mom of eight has to be hard to control. She doesn’t look liek she is full-on slapping him on the mouth though, just trying to keep everyone in line and get them loaded into the car. Maybe he and a brother were needling each other, and she was trying to stop him from talking. The kids not crying and freaking out, so my guess is just that this is a questionable picture.
Oh please, it looks like she’s wiping drool off his face or something like that. Does not look like she’s smacking him.
Seeing these kids for the first time in awhile, it makes me miss the show…the kids are so darn cute!
This is such a non-story.
The second part of the article, about how she’s hurt that Jon’s ‘moving on’… I know I’ve felt like that too after a break up, but I can’t help but laugh in Kate’s case. You treat a dude like shit for years, then throw him out and trash talk him to the press, and you’re surprised and sad that he’s not begging to come back to you?
I can see how one could get easily frustrated when surrounded by 8 kids. This doesn’t look like a smack, though, just that she’s trying to cover his mouth.
maybe he was making fun of her new extensions?
You can’t even smack your kids mouth now? I’m going to burn in he.. for sure. I was back handed so many times growing up and beat with switches/belts
where were all those nagging nellys then to protect me? I think it’s gone overboard with all the disipline. Way too many mouthy kids gone wild.
completely disagree with corporal punishment…his expression says it all. she may not have smacked him but he sure looks as if she did or else he’s bracing himself for impact.
That doesn’t look like a smack at all. Looks like she is just covering his mouth and telling him to hush up.
I gotta say Kate don’t take no smack where disciplining her kids is concerned, that butt smack incident with her daughter could have turned into such a huge scandal if she had backed down or tried to excuse her reaction but all she said was “I discipline as I see fit” and left it at that. Love or hate her she is just who she is and has managed to get a substantial amount of people to pay attention to her and pay her good money to do so as well.
I can’t stand this vile excuse of a woman, but to me it just looks as if she’s trying to wipe something off of his face and he is doing what any normal kid would probably do by squishing up his face.
And her new “do” rock in this picture. Not nearly as bad as that People cover. She even looks younger here.
I can’t believe I just “said” that. I must be coming down with swine flu or a fever or something. Ugh!
teri: There’s a huge difference between an occasional swat on the behind and a backhand to the face. Just saying.
I’m all for corporal punishment…anybody ever stop to think that maybe that’s why there are so many unruly, utterly useless “adults” in this world now? I agree with ChickenTetrazzini I too, was spanked as a child and popped in the mouth if my language and/or attitude was a little much. I love my parents and told them they should have disciplined me more! I’m one of the most passive, non-aggressive people you’ll ever meet…different things work for different kids and if mine starts acting up for no reason other than being a brat you better believe I’m spanking a hind end! rant done..love this site btw.
Yeah…my parents would probably be in jail if they raised me and my siblings today. I don’t see anything wrong with this. i don’t like her either, but I have to respect her when she tells the commentators to bug off and let her raise her kids.
She has pretty hands….still hate the hair.
Of all the people I’ve known who were into spanking their kids – which is the vast majority of them – not one of them thought even a tap on the face was OK. I’m going with that logic.
DR Lillian Glass has written some interesting articles on Kate and the kids, this is a link to her comments on This incedent if your interested.
http://drlillianglassbodylanguageblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/kate-gosselin%e2%80%99s-shockingly-abusive-and-degrading-body-language-behavior-towards-colin/
Meh. *shrugs*
And yeah, my kids get a smack on the mouth if I think it’s necessary.
To me it looks like the kid is about to sneeze and she is telling him to cover his mouth…who knows though?
It does not look like a smack…Maybe her hands smelled bad and the reaction was her child’s facial expression.Even if she did smack him does that make her a bad parent? Why judge when no parent is perfect and some think spanking and slapping is appropriate. I got spanked as a kid and I don’t think I’ll spank my children,but to each his own.Parenting is a journey.
i’m against smacking (but i don’t have kids so what do i know!) but this doesn’t look like smacking. looks more like she’s covering his mouth to stop him shouting or having a tantrum or whatever.
We had a saying at my house growing up: “Mom has bad aim.”
So if she told you that she was going to smack you across the mouth, she would probably end up punching you in the eye.
And while I don’t plan on hitting my children (assuming I ever have any) my mom’s bad aim did keep us from smarting off, no lasting damage done.
I don’t like Kate. I don’t like her hair – looks too soft, which is not her personality at all. That said, I agree that many people today are too soft on their kids and we are turning into a nation of whiny monsters. I don’t think you have to spank your kid – but don’t think it’s necessarily harmful either. You just have to use SOME form of discipline, and use it consistently.
Whew. Felt good to get that little rant off my chest. :^)
Looks like that kid was out of line.
To me, it looks like she is trying to shush him. Her mouth looks like she is saying “shush” and her hand is covering his mouth, not slapping it. But if she was, it’s not really my business, is it?
I agree that there are a lot of little whiny brats out there, running amok without solid, consistent discipline. I was spanked growing up, with a hand, a brush and a belt sometimes, but I think I turned out ok. And I have a 2 year old that I have tapped on the butt a few times too. I will never beat him and I will not slap him in the face, but I do not think there is anything wrong with a tap on the butt. Parenting definitely is a journey. It’s hard to know what will work and what won’t, but you have to do something when your kid is being a little asshole!
You ever hear the expression ‘do as I say, not as I do’? Well, my parents thrived off that and smacked me whenever I had it coming. But they also taught me right from wrong so I knew when I was being disciplined, it was for my own good. They were the adults, and I was the child.
I think it’s silly that all of a sudden so many are against corporal punishment. Generations of kids were spanked and they were a heck of a lot more respectful and well-behaved then kids nowadays. I wish PC people would get more common sense.
All I can look at are those terrible extensions.
Uh, no offense, but you have what? ONE 5 year old?? Try having 6 and then a set of older twins and tell me how you’d never tell them to be quiet and slightly cover their mouth…sometimes you need to do something like that for your own sanity. It doesn’t look a bit like she is hitting him- that is a “shh” with a re-enforcement. Sometimes a plain “be quiet” won’t work and that simple action will.
Um, guys? Your parents hit you and you turned out okay… but that doesn’t make it alright to hit kids. It was acceptable some time ago, but so was slavery. Let’s not use that as an excuse, okay? There are other effective means of discipline.
She whines about not being able to pay her bills but her nails sure do look nice. Oi.
He was sneezing and she covered his mouth…
In Touch, Star, National Inquirer, People……. they are all the same. Lie, lie, lie to get a “this just in” story that is total bullshit. Won’t buy any more of their wasted paper.
If a kid needs spanked then spank them! Theres a difference between a smack on the butt and a beating. I was spanked and smacked but I also KNEW I was being punished. I also knew that I cant hit just because I felt like it. Just like I was never hit because mom felt like it.
It’s interesting that people who are vehemently against corporal punishment almost invariably change their POV when they have kids of their own who misbehave and mouth off.
I don’t believe in physically punishing a child under any circumstances. Using violence to teach correct behavior, yes, that sounds like a marvelous idea. My parents never raised a hand to me and I will never raise a hand to my own children.
I think parents who spank or otherwise hit their kids as a form of punishment are lazy, terrible people. There are better ways of handling a misbehaving child, albeit they may take more patience and time, but it’s better than just giving in to the “easy” way out of just beating your kids into submission. And yes, I consider spanking, etc, as forms of child abuse.
As for the picture…it looks like she’s losing her temper and trying to force her hand over her son’s mouth in an attempt to make him quiet. No really a smack, but still, it makes her look very mean.
Oh and Pirncess Pea: Comparing spanking to the opression of an entire race of people is not a fair comparison. A better argument would be: Spanking a child in a home was accepted during the same time spanking was accepted in schools.
Nothing compares to slavery. Your argument was a gross comparison of what happened to those victimized by slavery.
Uh, this is what my neice looks like when we wipe her nose with a tissue.
That said, I’m a CPS worker and just because YOU (whoever YOU may be) turned out fine after your parents physically disciplined you, doesn’t mean that ALL children who are physically punished (especially with implements such as belts, etc) will not suffer some form of trauma. Additionally, it is not illegal to use corporal punishment such as spanking. It is illegal to leave marks and/or use objects.
I think he fussed and bumped into her and she covered his mouth, kind of mean, not my style but not out and out abusive. Face it, if you are constantly in a crowd of 8 young kids there are bound to be times when someone gets accidentally bopped or elbowed or tripped over or tripped up.
There is a Gosselins Without Pity site that analyzes every photo of her with her kids. The posters take every still frame and analyze it out of context. Many of them are upset that the Gosselin kids aren’t smiling all the time. Nobody smiles all the time! Even with just two kids, after a visit to the mall my family looks like we are finishing the Bataan Death March.
He was giggling about her hair! (good one snapdragon) I’m sure she silences her kids about that one in her presence.
snapdragon, that’s exactly what I was thinking when I saw the picture. good one. she bitchslapped him, because he ragged on her do. hahahahahha
I spanked my son once.
The look of pain on his face came didn’t come from the pain on his butt…..it came from the pain in his heart.
I never did it again.
There is no doubt about it, those kids are gonna grow up f*ck*d up!!!
Please, people, we are not talking about beating children, we are talking about a corrective smack. The Maude Flanderses here who weep for “the children” either have none or were raised by hideously abusive parents.
If you’re against corporal punishment, don’t implement it, but don’t fault parents who do. And I guarantee, if you spank your kid once, they will think twice when they hear the valid threat of another one. Fear is a great motivator.
Better a smack to the kisser at age 6 than a gunshot wound to the belly at 16 because the kid doesn’t understand REAL WORLD consequences for a big mouth.
This faux moral superiority is nauseating, and usually those are the parents who have the worst-behaved offspring.
Spanking has been proven to lower a child’s IQ. For me, that is enough evidence that hitting a child in any way is unacceptable. It’s not about opinion, it’s about scientific evidence. Clearly even spanking is detrimental. Just because you turned out ok after being spanked as a kid doesn’t mean it’s alright to perpetuate the cycle. It used to be normal to beat your child to the point of being covered in bruises. Does that precedent stand? Of course not!
That being said, Kate is clearly not smacking her kid. It looks like she’s covering his mouth to get him to stop talking.
perhaps he was repeating how his dad talks to the babysitter and the sound he makes from the bedroom. LOL! So Kate needed to shut him up!
I don’t think anyone can make blanket statements like ‘spanking = beating and therefore is never OK’ or, ‘all kids need a spank now and then’. Some do, some don’t.
She looks like she’s wiping his mouth. You should see the faces and gyrations of my 5 year old makes when I try to wipe her face. Some of you might think I b*tch slap her on a regular basis.
I’m not sure if this particular picture warrants a tabloid story, but I’ve seen enough snippits on her terrible tv show to know that Kate is verbally/emotionally abusive to her children. It wouldn’t surprise me if she smacked them a few times out of frustration (as opposed to “correction”).
I don’t understand why people are trying to defend her alleged behavior on the grounds that she has eight children. Hello! She chose to have eight children – just because they’re getting older and opinionated isn’t a viable excuse for being “grouchy” all the time. Just because the nanny(ies) have the day off doesn’t give you a right to be cruel to your children.
Anyone who chooses to reproduce has an obligation to be the best parent they can be for their child/ren. Perhaps if more people didn’t take that responsibility so lightly, there wouldn’t be so many behavioral problems with kids today.
Oh man she needs to rip out that weave.
Shannon: “Spanking has been proven to lower a child’s IQ.”
Please provide the link to a legitimate source that says it’s been proven, not “suggested” or “indicated”. Spanking ≠ beating, and no, it was never “normal” to beat children black and blue. Hyperbole doesn’t make it so.
For Christ sakes people it’s called DISCIPLINE. Hasn’t anyone heard of it?Although these days people call it abuse and call CPS. No wonder kids and teens today are f**ked up.
hey Shannon, did you get spanked a lot?
LOL. Good one, Bubbles.
kate: it is not illegal to use corporal punishment such as spanking. It is illegal to leave marks and/or use objects.
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Thank you for clearing that up. Some people think any kind of corporal punishment is illegal. It isn’t. I work in a private child welfare agency in NYC. Excessive corporal punishment is illegal. A smack in the mouth or a swat on the butt with your open hand is not excessive. If you swat him hard enough to leave marks or smack him so hard you give him a bloody lip or knock a tooth out, that is excessive. It’s a question of degree. That said, there is often a thin line between discipline and abuse.
GatsbyGal if you hate anyone who spanks their kid you should probably hate many people who stand right besides you as friends, you should maybe even be hating an aunt or uncle of yours because many people spank.
What an overblown, self indulgent and stupid thing to say. I hate anyone who spanks.
And to Shannon is it hitting a child or a spank on the bum – there’s a huge difference.
Anyway hitting a child may be connect with an abusive family. Very often these things occur in lower socia-economic households – so the lower IQ thing could have to do with type of kids who are by and large hit. Lower socio-economic groups have lower IQ’s on the whole.
Show me the study, or I call B.S. on your claim that spanking is directly connected to lowering IQ.
I wonder would she be nicer if she had a nice guy to take her out and spend time with??
probably not..
The way it looks in the photo, he’s got his brother’s jacket in his hand, and she’s put her hand in between them as a barrier, and yes, he probably was yelling and she wanted that to stop.
The only abuse i see her being guilty of was dealt out by that poncey hairdresser, HATE that guy, don’t know him, but still HATE him and his 900 dollar haircuts, he needs to go down, and i’m not talking about his assistant.
The child looks like he’s sneezing to me.
I don’t have kids, but simple logic dictates that there’s more to raising decent children into decent adults than corporal punishment. There are plenty of ignorant, selfish and criminal gits out there who were raised when corporal punishment was deemed necessary. The odd smack on the hand or the back of the legs is appropriate in certain circumstances, but if your immediate response to them annoying you is to slap them, don’t be surprised if that’s how they treat others. .
I got hit as a child and I was a demon brat. I turned out ok because I was shown how to behave properly around others – and not by my own parents. It’s this nonsense about “noone is allowed to say anything to my child” that is really unhelpful.
My three year old nearly ran into the street and I grabbed the back of her coat and pulled her back. If someone happened to take a photo at thatmoment it might look like I was abusing her(btw I have never hit my children).
I am not defending Kate G. but In Touch is not exactly the New York Times! Also how many times has a photo been in a tabloid that is taken in such a way as to show the subject in the worst possible light?
1)That pictures shows NOTHING. 2)I’m no Kate fan, but she definitely does a far better job parenting eight young children than I ever could. Although I’d be losing it a lot, I would – however – always sincerely apologize when I did. If Kate does that, they’re not doomed.
Corporal punishment just equals lazy parenting. And I find that those who justify it usually do so because they’ve need to justify the treatment they received from their parents from a young age.
You can absolutely reason with a child and use intellect and caring to invoke a sense of responsibility. I was raised in a house that didn’t tolerate hitting on any level. I think the reason there are so many “unruly” people in the world today is precisely because they were taught as children that certain violence is justified when trying to “teach someone a lesson”. Bottom line, hitting is always wrong unless it’s self-defense. Reason and love will always triumph over fear tactics.
I do not believe she his smacking his face. It looks to me like he may be sneezing. Usually when you sneeze your nose wrinkles and your eyes close. It looks like she is covering his mouth during the sneeze.
@princess pea- I totally agree with you on both posts. I’m not sure what she expected Jon to do when she said the marriage was over and would agree to marriage counseling only if it was with Dr. Phil (ew). Jon has horrible taste in women so maybe she’s secretly freaked out at the not-so-exclusive club she now belongs to.
Not that I think Kate is smacking that kid in the face but I do not agree with hitting or spanking children. There are more effective ways to teach a person right from wrong than hitting them.
@snapdragon lofl
I can’t stand this woman, but I don’t see anything remotely resembling a smack–in fact, she looks gentle to me.
@Ben – yes, that’s probably true. I don’t know who I should be hating though, as asking people if they spank their children never really comes up as a topic of conversation. If I ever learned that an aunt or uncle or friend of mine used to spank/is spanking their kids, I don’t think I’d ever look at them in the same light ever again. When my mother told me once that her father used to hit her with a belt when she was little, I pretty much lost all respect and affection for my grandfather, and that’s the truth.
And @Sudini – you’re probably the wisest person whose commented so far. I agree with you absolutely 100%, especially about those who justify physical punishment doing so because they need to somehow validate their own experiences as children. “My dad used to grab me and put me over his knee and spank me until I was red…but that was only because he loved me and wanted to teach me something, right? …right?”
Doesn’t look like a slap to me. More like a hand across the mouth with a “ssshhhhh!!” Just like when one tabloid reported Mady having a meltdown leaving a nail salon with Kate this summer. It was Cara, not Mady to begin with, and it just looked like she had her hand up to shield her eyes from the sun, not that she was crying her eyes out.
@ IKnowItAll: “And I guarantee, if you spank your kid once, they will think twice when they hear the valid threat of another one. Fear is a great motivator.”
I don’t want my kids – if ever I have any – to fear me; I want them to love me.
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Popping kids in the mouth can cause them to be hand-shy. Do those who do really want your child to flinch if someone comes near his/her face with a hand? I don’t.
Yes, my parents physically and emotionally abused me, and I’m highly sensitive to children being subjected to corporal punishment. I remember vividly being terrified of my dad’s belt when I was around 4 years old, and I completely feared him and my mother – as much as I hated them for hurting me. Just because some of y’all think it’s fine and dandy to smack, slap and spank your children, it doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t have turned out okay had you instead taken the time to do things differently. I just hope your children break the cycle of violence and don’t do the same to their own children. There are other ways to discipline a child than having to hurt them in some way.
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Knowing how Kate yells at her kids and treats them, that absolutely looks like a smack in the mouth to me. As for him not crying, it’s possible that she has threatened to hurt him if ever he does. My parents used to threaten my siblings and me horribly to prevent us from acting up when doing things in public.
i think shes just covering his mouth to keep him quiet, you could tell from her lips that shes shushing him. and even if she gave him a little slap, its not like she was abusing him or anything. and oh yeah, i cant stand her hair!! she really needs to get rid of that rat’s nest wig o whatever it is!
WTF. These stories make me want to say “Fuck it” and give up my lust for celebrity gossip.
Load of hooey. Looks like the two boys were starting to get into some sort of scuffle and she physically stopped the one closest to her. As to smack or not to smack? Physical punishment is the least effective form of behavior management, but there is a purpose – it will immediately stop a potentially dangerous behavior that is occurring. If your child starts to run into the street will you grab them by the arm, jerk them back, and scream, “NO!!!!”? I sure would (and have). That’s aversive punishment, just as aversive as a smack on the butt. Where it goes wrong is when it’s the only form of behavior management a parent uses, and that’s abusive.
As for Dr. Lillian Glass and body language (as someone posted above) – she’s another load of hooey. Get access to a university library database where you can search research journals. You won’t find one piece of work from her in a psych journal. There is a Lillian Glass who did some work in the 70’s in speech-language, but her work was on physical speech impediments. My guess is she’s another “Dr.” Laura – someone who has a Ph.D. in one area but leads people to believe it’s in psychology or counseling. As someone with a doctorate in education, I always automatically distrust someone who knowingly allows people to misconstrue their credentials.
There was a vid of this 2 kids a boy and a girl were screaming at each other as they ere getting in the van and she put her over his mouth to shush him.is shush a word. I saw the video on E or Inside Edition
Why is this woman a celebrity ?
THIS PICTURE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE SHE SMACKED COLLIN, SHE IS JUST TRYING TO QUIET HIM AND IF SHE WOULD HAVE SMACKED HIM HE WOULD HAVE TEARS IN HIS AND THROWING A TEMPER FIT ON THE GROUND. IT IS DO REDICULOUS HOW THE TABLOIDS PUT AS IF KATE SLAPPED HER SON, THIS WOMAN STAYED IN THE HOSPITAL WEEKS BEFORE THESE CHILDREN WERE BORN, ATE HEALTHY FOODS SO THAT THESE BABIES COULD BE HEALTHY, SHE CARES ALOT MORE FOR THESE KIDS THAN JON, SHE IS ALWAYS HOME TAKING CARE OF THEM WHEN JON IS WITH HIS TRAMP OF THE MONTH (COME ON THIS IS HIS FOURTH GIRLFRIEND DOES THIS NEW GIRLFRIEND THINK SHE IS THE ONE JON IS GOING TO KEEP, HA HA HA), LIKE DEANNA, HAILEY, KATE AND NOW THIS NEW ONE,HE WILL GET TIRED OF HER LIKE HE LAST THREE AND WHEN HE IS DONE USING HER HE WILL TRADE HER FOR ANOTHER 20-SOMETHING YEAR OLD AND LEAVE THIS GIRL HE IS WITH NOW, GOING TO OTHER STATES AND EVEN OTHER COUNTRIES AND WASTING MONEY ON THEM INSTEAD OF HIS EIGHT CHILDREN.
Simple answer is: NO!!!!!
It looks like she is shhushing her son.
No story here.
Move on
I would like to ask princess pea, GatsbyGal, Shannon and Sudini if any one of you have kids?? To make the comments you are making “lazy parenting,” equate it to slavery (WTF?) and crap like that – you have NO IDEA what you are talking about! There are definite degrees here – like I said I would never beat my child, a tap on the butt, yes. And guess what – that is NOT my first response. I try time outs, reasoning, etc. My first response is certainly not to swat him, it is my last resort. I am not “lazy” or “terrible.” I love my son more than anything.
So, be honest, which of you that have been making these blanket statements actually has a child?
And, yes, Shannon, please send us a link to that study that says hitting your child is proven to lower their IQ – I would love to read about it.
I am truly SHOCKED people think she looks “good” with that hair. Honestly, I think this is the worst she has ever looked. Even pre-jon&kate+8 when she was a big tub with brown scraggles.
I think this hair makes her look older, larger, and extremely outdated. Blech.
As for the smack – don’t think she did it, but I don’t have a problem with it even. But if she can dish ’em, somebody better be allowed to smack her too.
Calm the heck down. I compared it to slavery not because I thought they are equivalent but because it is ALSO something that we used to accept as a society which we don’t have to anymore. I guess I should have said: driving without a seatbelt or a carseat, bear baiting, smoking in restaurants/theatres/shopping malls… I don’t think the odd smack on the ass is totally abusive, but I am uncomfortable reading all these defenses for hitting kids. Reminds me of a CB/Rhianna thread, to be honest.
For the record, I don’t think Kate is smacking Colin in this picture. That said, I don’t think he’s running into traffic or otherwise endangering anyone so this wouldn’t be a time when a swat was acceptable to me anyway.
Again, I will ask you, princess pea, do you have a child? You tell us to calm down, but you are the one making these flippant statements with nothing to back them up. This is a serious matter for parents. I don’t know about what other parents go through, but I am constantly questioning myself, wondering if I am doing things the right way. It’s hard to read comments on here from people who don’t even have kids spouting off like they have all the answers. Try and put yourself in someone else’s shoes for a second and realize maybe we’re doing the best we can given the situation.
And, yes, your choice of comparisons wasn’t the best one to make. Can you see how people might mistake your intention – slavery/beating and child discipline/beating?
please! she is no way no how a “saint” sheeshhhhh i get soooo tired of winey ass and everything she is, no wonder Jon isn’t around her anymore, sorry I dON’T either one of them but come on the way she was on Jon & Kate plus 8 if I ever treated my hubby the way she treated Jon he would have left me along time ago, neither one of them are perfect
Althought I would like to smack her and say what the hell is wrong with you, your kids missing there day and crying out leave them the hell alone,
I think there will be someone making something out of anything Kate does. I do not see this child being smacked. Putting her hand over his mouth is nothing in the real world of abuse. Give it up people.
Umm… looks to me like the kid coulda been sneezing and she covered his mouth.