Kate Gosselin was seen smacking her son, Collin in the face after she told him to do something. That’s a noticeably regular form of parenting, if you live in the 1950′s, but we’re not.
Last Friday, Kate picked him and the other kids from school at around 2PM. A source on the scene said, “Collin started talking to people around them, and Kate wanted him to keep quiet. She looked like she was about to lose it and smacked Collin in the face and then held his mouth! All I know is that I wouldn’t treat a 5-year-old child like that…”
Kate is evil and must be destroyed. No, seriously, she’s keeping her kids in line. Just because she’s on television doesn’t mean it’s okay for them to run over her. I know that’s awful of me and whatever, but it beats calling the cops to taze your kids.
Unless someone has a video of her actually smacking him, then I would love to see it, but the picture shows her putting her hand over his mouth, not smacking him. I think people make a big deal out of nothing. I really think this is nothing, same with the whole spanking Leah incident. I just hope that people leave Kate Gosselin alone. She is a good mother! I just hope people realize that eventually and stop attacking her for her past mistakes. She is a human being.
Does your kid flinch like that when you raise your hand? Did you see the episode where they were outside with Jon at the new house? He ripped a stick out of one of the little girl’s hands. She flinched as if she thought she was going to be hit with the stick. That is NOT a normal reaction from a little child.
Rather than dealing logically with a discipline situation, she resorts to smacking them. IT’S NOT RIGHT!!! Maybe if she explained to them how they need to behave BEFORE they were in the situation, things might be different!
Same thing with the day she spanked Leah for blowing a whistle because she was on the phone. As the adult, couldn’t she have gotten up and gone in the house to continue her conversation? If Leah had blown the whistle in the house, Kate would have exploded. The kid was outside for cryin’ out loud! Be an adult and remove YOURSELF from a situation before you go all Dog Day Afternoon on a little kid who hasn’t been taught any better!
Kate is a horrible, selfish, self-centered, egotistical, narcissistic shrew of a person. She doesn’t deserve to have those “8 Little Faces.” They deserve so much better than the life they’ve been handed.
They need LOVE – NOT material things.
Give me a break to me it looks like she is covering his month and shushing him to be quiet. At the same time it looks like his brother in front of him may be fighting with him and that’s what the face is all about. Get off of Kate’s back I am not a big fan but SHE is raising these 8 kids alone and she get greif . There is no mention of Jon THE FATHER being a bad parents and all he is doing is acting like a 14 yr old who just got laid for the 1st time
Not buying it, sorry its clear as day she is covering is mouth not smaking him. lol good try
She got his attention and that is all that matters. No harm done. That is NOT a smack in the face. Get a life. And a swat on the butt doesn’t hurt anyone. Kate is NOT abusing her kids. Go tend to YOUR kids and stop worrying about hers.
Really it doesn’t look like she’s smacking him at all and you can tell that she is sushing him. To me though that doesnt even look like Kate at all I haven’t kept up with her but even when she didnt have the fame her hair was short. I guess people are always changing though you can tell those are diffinetly her children.
haha! there’s nothing smackish about that at all. she’s just shushing him. nice try. give the woman a break.
This doesn’t look like a smack to me.
To the person who was talking about the stick incident, that’s a normal human instinct. Stop looking for trouble. You sound very jealous.
I’m not a big fan of either parent, but they have EIGHT kids. They didn’t think they were having 6 the last time and didn’t mean to do so. I have a hard time with my two, so I can imagine how hard it is with 8. I think Kate is doing a pretty good job on her own while her husband “chases skirts” half his age and looks stupid.
Loooks like she is pushing his face away..
Whatever she is doing is NOT getting his attention because his eyes are scrunched shut.
You do not pop, hit smack, tap or oteherwise harshly touch a child to get his / her attention….
Why is it OK to do that to your own family / child /spouse and not get in troublr: however you do the same to a stranger / aquaintence / neighbor and you go to jail for assault?
Whats the differance?
The accusations are baseless clearly. How many of you against her Have had to bring up and guide 8 children. Do you even have 1??
You probably Yell to get thier attention instead which can do more harm to them getting yelled at all the time. Every form of discipline and training in its place. Good on you Kate, although I dont agree in televising your babies.
In answer to your question CAJUN_MOMMY
Many who yell abuse, dont hit kids blah blah have grown up in family where the parents may have gone overboard with physical discipline. This leads to biased opinion.
Whilst a child is a child you (the parent/guardian) are responsible for training and discipline in a loving manner and that can take on many forms so they grow up knowing boundaries…… the adults they turn into are then free to make there own decisions based on the training they had growing up. You can not throw a 10yr old in Jail for stealing a car can you. No, because every one recognises they are still a child in need of guidance….Once an adult they must face adult consequences and appropriate discipline from authorities. Thats the very CLEAR difference. There is a HUGE difference between a tap on the bum as a last resort as part of training a child…….and the punch ups and bruises that adults give one another. If that is done to a child it is Child abuse then and only then.
Children brought up in the last 50yrs since no smacking came into effect have no boundaries at all and as a result a massive social decline…you know the ones you put security screens on your front door to keep out? Were these needed 50yrs ago???
I was smacked when I know I pushed the limits..It was on the bum and rarely hurt. I felt nothing but love from my parents and I never had bruises and I didnt die or pass out. I had no eveidence for show and tell! You wont catch me ever holding a knife to your throat. I respect myself because of it and I respect others and the proper athourities trying to maintain order. I wholeheartedly support my parents decision to Train me, including smacking. It makes me sick to my stomach to think that because of this any anti smackers would consider my most loving parents child abusers! There is much worse things that can and DO happen to children.
Just because a man in the shopping cemter looks at your daughter do you straight away scream Peadophile!!!
No!
So when a mother or father give there child a smack on the bum for been naughty and quite often pushing the limits do not assume that they are automatically a child abuser.
A fly on the wall would probably tell you off, all the love, kisses, cuddles and praises that child gets within in his home also.
Many chilren would be happy to get a smack on the bum when they are naughty than to live in the drug fueled, drunk abusive households they are in now……. Heck, they’d come and live with you and get a smack on the bum when naughty just to know there belly would be full every night and there would be someone there to cuddle them, and tuck them in before bed.