Kate Gosselin spanks little Leah in public

Spanking is not beating—a swat to the bottom is not child abuse–so watch what you spread!!

i dont think she beat her child.thats the problem with kids these days they think they cant be touched.i have two children and i will pop their butts when they do things they know there not supposed to do

if jon and kate do get divorced….she does not need to get custody of the kids. even on the show she is rude to everyone and even those kids. i saw some articles about her and she is always like this to the kids. it said that she is controlling and abusive..i believe it and i know she does not need to get those kids. jon deserves them. he is the sweetest guy and he doesnt need her..

i do think that kate beat Leah, but i agree with her because i feel that kids should be beat when they are doing something wrong. however, parents should not beat their kids for no reason. And i think that the reason why kate is becoming very rude,and abusive is because of the stress of having 8 kids as with jon, he is a man and he doesn’t have to deal with the same stress a mother does.

Life happens to people, these people just happen to have theirs spread all over the media. Nobody knows the pressures of raising this many children (most of them the same age),unless you’re doing it. As I recall, they didn’t intentionally set out to have 8 babies at one time. Its apparent that the pressures are catching up with this young family. The pressures of parenting, as well as the pressures of fame. Its nothing I can truly judge, as I’ve never had this much responsibility when it comes to molding and shaping young lives. My observations are that its a double edged sword. Agreeing to share your story with the entire world has allowed the Gosselin’s to afford this size of a family. It also seems to appear that the glitz and glamour of Hollywood have interfered with the every day, hands on, care for their children. How can you be out at all hours of the morning with that many kids at home? How can you be off on book signings and manage a household? New hair, new makeup, new body, new lovers… its all beginning to catch up with them. When do you spend time having popcorn fights while you watch movies,or sit and paint toenails, and fingernails, and ride bikes, and read books? How about just spending one on one with them helping you bake cup cakes, or build a dog house? These kids are growing up with nanny’s and celebrities as a norm. In my world, that isn’t good enough. Obviously in their world its acceptable. Who am I to judge? I have two children, ten years apart. Anyone who is a parent should understand, and pray for, the Gosselin’s. These children (A blessing from God) are so prescious. They deserve to have the best of both of their parents.

Get a grip folks. A swat is not a beating as stated earlier. The media fenzy over a parent actually parenting instead of “being the kids friend” without any concern that they learn consequences for their actions is misplaced. The same people thinking a swat is abusive would be clucking their tongues with condemnation over a child having a tantrum/or otherwise misbehaving in a store with no corrective action from the parent.

i agree she is a bi— but i don’t consider popping her kids on the butt abuse

A short tap to the bottom of a child is often the only way to break a pattern – if the child is throwing a tantrum. This breaks the circle and with a cuddle all is well.

To run a house with that many children in needs to run like clockwork – if that is considered to be organising – well so be it, imagine what a state they would all be in if a happy do lucky atmosphere were to prevail.

Re the divorce – I feel so very sory for all concerned parents and children and hope that some peace for all will come, one way or another. The parents do not appear to have much time to be by themselves and do adult things – one 5 year old in the house can be bad enough but 6

However the channel I am watching the little ones are only 3 at present.

When mommy get’s old and senile and acts up in public, I’ll beat her ass…Would you call this abuse?

i have 3 kids the oldest is 13 yr old girl 11 yr old boy and 9 yr old girl and i do spank dem buh only when neccasiry kate should hve not spanked leah just 4 dat i spank my kids for swearing.

Okay well for one…we she didn’t BEAT her child.. she gave her a spanking. and second.. we don’t know what the situation was..it could of been anything so don’t get your panties in a bunch. And last but not least..shes the parent not us.. let her do her job how she wants, if you don’t want to see it happen, don’t watch the show. If you don’t wanna see kids getting ” beat” as you so put ..don’t walk down the street, don’t watch the news.

I think ‘momma’ needs to learn how to spell. There ARE reasons to spank your children or else they turn out walking all over you and making you look like a bad parent when they don’t listen. BEATING your children is NOT the same as spanking them… people have become SO SENSITIVE and look for any excuse to cause trouble or file a lawsuit. Leave the Gosselin family alone! Seriously, Kate is trying to do her best being a mother to EIGHT kids, you try doing it and see if you don’t lose your mind… while Jon is off gallavanting the planet with his little teenage girlfriend. Obviously Kate is doing whatever she can to keep her kids in line while the “father figure” is out partying.

I think she deserves her babies & child support from Jon who cares she spank the little brat media and society tries to make people out to be unfit when discipline is involved some kids out act for no reason or try to run all over you and you can give them the world spank is an understatement a belt does not work neither does a switch so what does when you have an off in space kid who does not listen lies refuses to listen and loves to talk back there talking back slap em in the mouth kids should not run over there parents and they love to show out in public I.e. grocery stores dept stores like Wal-mart & I’m not going to play nice with lil johnny so to speak the world is over rated if we can’t beat the little bastards not talking bout all kids just the bad asses then what? I don’t believe in voodoo but to me the only solution is to then put them in the hands of a powerful voodoo priest or Rev. Who specializes in demonolgy that’ll get their asses straight for life you people who don’t believe in disciplining a child do you not realize if these lil bastard left un disciplined grow up to be in & out of jail rapist arrogant and murderers look past them being 5 or whatever look at who they will become you keep letting lil susie get away with talkin smart and tearing up your stuff and lil johnny cussin at you not listenin hittin on you you all will wish you would’ve disciplined them when you bail them out of jail at 14 for fighting at school or they24 and the 7th time you bailing them out you’ll wish then you would’ve used that belt or called that priest.

My previous message had errors b/c I was being distracted and trying to erase and rewrite.

A smack on the rear end is sometimes the only thing that will work with an out of control child. I believe that children have a nerve that runs from the rear end to the brain (lol). Sometimes you have to activate the nerve in order to get the brain to function!