As a parent I often wonder if I am doing my best to make sure my child grows up with manners and respect. What am I to do when another child comes around and gets my child and other children to act like hoodlums? I sometimes think to myself what this kids parents see when they witness their childs misbehavior. I grew up with the firm belief of spare the rod spoil the child. Therefore I use spanking as a form of punishment for mine. I recieved a comment from a woman a few doors down that I am to harsh on my child. But when I witness how her children act I have to think to myself, am I really to harsh for spanking my child or am I just correcting his behavior so he doesn’t act like them? So before I go any farther I will describe how this womans children act. Her son punchs her in the stomach when he doesn’t get his way. Her daughter, while not as bad, cries when she is told no. Her son is 5 years old. He jumps on other peoples parked cars, kicks dogs in the backyards, and most disturbing pushes smaller children on the ground and kicks them in the face and sides. So my best friend who lives in the middle of me and this family has a 4 year old daughter. She fell one day and broke her colar bone. She was in a sling for 3 weeks. One day this little boy lets just call him Ron gets mad at her for telling him to quit kicking her puppy. He told her to shut her mouth and not to tell him what to do. Being 5 he shouldn’t even be saying that to anyone. So when she said she was going to tell on him he pushed her to the ground and kicked her in the eyes, mouth, sides, and between her legs so hard it caused damage.  When reported to his mother and father all he got was a that’s not nice you need to say sorry. I’m sorry but if that was my child I would have called the police and scared him into thinking they were taking him to jail. So my best friend now is trying to keep her daughter away from Ron as much as she can. But he comes and picks and teases her anyways when she is playing with my son. So recently my friends daughter started pre-k and one day she had punched another kid and when she got put in time-out she started saying why do i have to be in time out. Ron doesn’t get time out when he hits me. So the school calls her mom and threatens to call CPS on her for this. Apparentley they had thought Ron was her brother and that they let him beat her. So it had to be explained it was our neighbors child. So some of us around the neighborhood got together and confronted his parents about his behavior and apparently they think he’s just being a child and that what he’s doing won’t hurt anyone. So this is a message to any parent who lets their child run amuck, society will come back to bite you in the butt one day.