About a week ago Kaylee and I are shopping at Target in the shoe section. There are two women there shopping with their children, a boy and a girl who look like they are around 3. The little girl is walking next to the cart and being quiet and well behaved while the boy is in the cart and being ridiculously bad. At one point his mother tried to put a pair of shoes on him and he threw them back at her, hitting her in the face, and said "NO, I DON'T LIKE THEM!" to which the mother responded "I'm sorry, which one's do you like?" A few minutes later I hear the little boy asking to be let out of the cart, I'm thinking to myself that surely his mother won't do this since he can't even behave in the cart, but she does. As soon as his feet hit the ground, he takes off running, the little girl immediately takes off as well. The little boys mother runs after him and quickly catches up to him and back into the cart he goes. The little girl continues running, her mother yells her name a few times and yells no and stop several times, and only actually takes a few steps towards the girl who is still giggling and running away. I realized she was heading straight for the front doors and started to think I would have to run after her myself or she would end up running out the door and being hit by a car, when the mother of the little boy asks "well do you need me to go after her?" and the girls mother finally seems to realize she should do something. They both take off after the little girl, who immediately runs to the left, away from the front doors.
My daughter daughter and I resumed shopping after the women disappeared and after what I thought was enough time for the women to get out of earshot I said "if you ever do anything like that I will spank your butt." Kaylee said "I know mommy." What I didn't realize was that the mother of the little boy had walked up the aisle behind me she announced with a huff and a nose in the air that "we don't spank our children." As I was about to respond Kaylee looked her in the eye and said "oh I can tell."
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