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If your kid was being bullied, would you "smush" the bully in the face?
Published: 9/21/2012 7:30 AM
Last Modified: 9/20/2012 5:28 PM

My favorite quote of the day comes from a mom in Florida: "That's what they need -- a good ol'-fashioned WHUPPIN'!"

You may have seen the story on CNN.com -- the aforementioned Florida mom found out a teen had asked another boy to beat up her son in school this week. Obviously, she was angry -- and confronted him.

Then, from what I gather, the confrontation carried over into the school bus he was on and got quite physical -- i.e., she "smushed him in his face." Check out the video ...

On one hand, I want to applaud the mom for standing up to a bully bothering her son. Then again, the little idiot doing the bullying is still a kid -- one who might need "a good ol'-fashioned whuppin'," as the mom said in the video. But he's still a kid, nevertheless.

By the way, she was arrested on child abuse charges and for trespassing on school property.

So what do you think -- was she right to stand up to the bully? Or was this WAAAAAY out of line?

Peace, love and whuppins ... XOXO

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myopinion (5 months ago)

There has always been bully's in school and there always will be. What parents did years ago, was to teach their children how to defend themselves. That's almost taboo anymore as we grow a generation of victims.

What the mother did by fighting with the boy, was act like a child herself. Its not how adults act. If her son was having problems on the bus she should have gone to school.

Her actions were way of line.

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