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Q: Is this the worst example of childcare ever?
I was waiting at the bus-stop today at the front of our community. The road has recently been up graded to ten lanes and is correspondingly busy. with cars, buses and a lot of big earth moving trucks from the new railway station being built just around the corner. Anyway, we hear a young child of three or four years old crying her eyes out and yelling "mama, mama" while chasing after her mother who was about twenty meters ahead and walking back to the car. Clearly the little girl had done something her mother did not approve of and was "teaching" her daughter a lesson. She gets to the car and gets in, drivers door is away from the kerb on the side of the traffic rushing past. Little girl catches up and goes to the drivers window, remember this is side facing onto the traffic. Mama clearly does not think the girl has learned her lesson as she locks the doors and does not let the girl in. She then thinks it a good idea to slowly pull out from the parking place into the traffic, all the time the child is crying to be let in and running to try and keep up with the moving car which is now halfway out into the traffic stream. After two or three minutes of slowly edging into the traffic with a screaming child trying to get in the mother relents and lets her in and then drives off.
What kind of exam in stupidity did this moron have to pass to be this crazy. Do they really not even think of consequences or what. There is a lot I like about living here but seriously some of the retards here should have been put down at birth.
9 years 46 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
This is normal Chinese parenting. Scare children into obedience. Love never enters the picture in China.
The that breaks my heart every day is when I see children playing by the streets near speeding cars and busy intersection, along with those speed racing electric bikes. They just don't monitor the kids after they begin to walk.
You should have taken the kid in your arms and start walking the opposite way, within a minute she could have been chasing you yelling, 'my baby, my baby'. You may have taught her a life lesson instead of yelling out here....
mike168229:
And be lynched as the foreigner that stole the baby?
Come on man, think before you spout crap.
Look again. It doesn't matter where you are, other people are responsible enough not to drive their car into you. Nobody wants to hurt or kill somebody else. That's the basic rule in Chinese traffic, meaning you can cross the road without looking, ignore all and everyone around you and just go on wherever you wanna go. You may hear something that sounds like horns, but hey, live and let live, right? There's nothing to be afraid of and it's wonderful to see Chinese people teaching that to their kids right from the start.
tomcatflyer:
The child was very young and very upset. What if she had slipped and her mother had run over her, and even if it is someone elses responsibility if they hit you it can still be the death or serious injury to a small child. Or maybe you think that is ok provided they pay enough compensation.
Vyborg:
It seems not to be clear to everyone that I was being sarcastic. Apologies for that. Of course it's a good habit to watch out before you cross the street and teach your children to do so. Or to teach them not to walk on the road, but on the sidewalk instead, not that the difference is that big.
The mother you describe is playing on the child's fear of abandonment and is obviously not capable of understanding the risk she takes by exposing her own daughter to traffic. I, too, think she's stupid and irresponsible, but she's one of many and it's not gonna change soon either.
Every day in China is a case study of how not to raise children. 
It's heartbreaking, sad, and awful. I can't stand it.
