{"id":4826,"date":"2009-09-04T08:37:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T15:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:34:34","slug":"outrageous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/09\/04\/outrageous\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrageous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was shopping in a Walmart with a screaming child. A man approached and threatened the mother to shut her child up or he&#8217;d do it. A few moments later, the toddler was still screaming, and the man returned and slapped the child about four times. The incident makes me see red. I am careful to go out with my toddler only when she is well, fed, and rested, but sometimes toddlers throw tantrums regardless. They are learning and growing and have primitive emotional regulation. I guess I am <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/02\/18\/so-sweet\/\">lucky it didn&#8217;t happen to us<\/a>. We just got a dirty look. And I got out of there, apologizing to everyone near us, just as soon as I&#8217;d completed our transaction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/community\/moms\/blogs\/child_caring\/2009\/09\/what_would_you_do_if_a_stranger_slapped_your_child.html\">What Would You Do if a Stranger Slapped Your Child?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was shopping in a Walmart with a screaming child. A man approached and threatened the mother to shut her child up or he&#8217;d do it. A few moments later, the toddler was still screaming, and the man returned and slapped the child about four times. The incident makes me see red. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,25,34,16,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-education","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-regional","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11691,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/11691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}