I acutally saw this episode of Dr. Phil...it was called "Brat Camp" and the situation with this mother and son was very sad. They had lost their daughter (sister to the son)a few years before and were so overcome with grief that they take it out on the son (the one slapping the mom). I am a mom of 3 kids and believe me I would go balistic if any one of my kids ever even attempted to slap me, but there was more to this story then you are seeing in this clip. In the show there wre other families and it actually ended up being the parents that needed to do things different in their parenting skills and Dr. Phil was coaching them and they were actually a group of good kids.

That's what I figured! I hope the rest of the pp will read this comment.

Thank you for commenting and telling the whole story. I knew she wasnt parenting him right for him to even think it was okay to talk to her like that. I cant believe how violent and abusive several of the comments have been...and they wonder why kids act out the way they do.

That is crazy. But i think listening to what each other has to say is very important. This child is old enough to tell his mom how he feels and what he likes and don't like. If you listen to the child he was trying to explain to his mom that the way she reacted yesterday in public was not right and it embarrased him. So she slapped him in public because he wouldn't listen. Now look what happens she wouldn't listen so he slaps her. Monkey see monkey do. There is a time and place for everything. there is nothing wrong with disciplining your child but keep your respect while doing it. She lost her respect. Now he could careless and he feels he is the boss of his own body. ~~~ms. blackalicious

Amen! You hit the nail on the head! Total disrespect... if you want it, give it.

I second that. That boy would not be able to use that arm ever again

I'VE NEVER HIT A WOMAN IN MY 43 YEARS OF LIVING. But I would like to slap that dumb bitch myself. If a kid of mine would ever even think about doing something like that to me that mother f**ker would NEVER get up off the floor !!!!!!!! Period!!!!!!! Some of you people out here in todays world make me sick. This stupid bullsh*t about this counting 1, 2, 3 is bullsh*t. I've had my ass tore up plenty of times. Why because then I deserved it. And 43 years later I'm still here. WAKE UP PEOPLE THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHIPPING A CHILD AND ABUSE. ABUSE DOING IT BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE DOING IT. Whipping is because the child needs to be corrected. If they don't listen then you have to show them. That's the main reason why kids don't show respect anymore because of dumbas people like this. I know there will be alot of you out there that can't believe what I'm say. Listen BELIEVE IT BECAUSE I'M TALKING TO YOU IF THATS WHAT YOU LET A CHILD DO. What that litle punk is doing is WRONG NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE BIGGEST PROBLEM HERE IS THE MOTHER. YOU HAVE TO PUT HIS FAT ASS IN CHECK. I have 2 daughters I've only had to whip 1 one time in her 20 years of life. She was playing to close to the road she was told not to and the very next day she was right back out there. If I would have stood there and counted to 3 or whatever you dumbass people do she might be dead. I tore her little ass up 1 time and she NEVER did that EVER again. And she is just as fine and healthy at 20 as she was when she was first born. I really hate to be rude but for all you bleeding hearts out there you can kiss my ass. I've had it. Sitting here looking at stupid sh*t and I'm supposed to feel sorry for her? I might would have had she knocked that kid on his ass. Then I would tell the judge you take him if you can raise him any better then walked the hell out of the court room. WAKE THE F UP PEOPLE!!!!!

I agree. Plenty of beatings need to be passed around these days. The fear of consequence has been lost among our youth. They act first and think later instead of thinking first. This is a prime example of it!

I agree with you whole heartedly. You don't let kids spank you. You do the spanking. The world has it wrong. Look at the world now since we have had TIME OUT. We are worse off than when we were spanked. If I wasn't spanked for some of the things I did some of you may not have been here to read this. I got back on the right track quickly. It helps to have a stern Dad in the house too. He and Mom backed each other up. So I couldn't play one against the other. Like I said your statement was right on but easy on the cussing. I wasn't allowed to do that either. Nor did I hear it in my home. So therefor I don't do it now.

Yeah!! The more beatings the better. That child's spirit needs to be broken. Someone obviously taught this child to compare and contrast and to make sense of the world around them. They are implementing the tools they have been given: histrionics, violence and emotional hurt to manipulate in order to get the response they want. His mother is lazy and immature in her child rearing and her kid, hurt and betrayed, is further perplexed when mom doesn't reward him for his perfect mirroring of her behavior. He is even trying to rationalize in a doctor Phil/Oprah like vernacular. Boo hiss . . poor mommy IS AN ADULT ARGUING WITH A CHILD. Please someone make note of Munchausen by proxy . . . the psychiatric version.

Before I start breaking his body parts, I would call the police to make sure they're in route to the house. When they get there, I (might) be done punishing him (not killing him). Then I'll inform the the officers to take care of him, feed and cloth him if they're going to put me in jail for disciplining my child. Our judicial system is partly the blame for the way some of these kids act and react, but our judicial system is quick to release child predators for repeatedly having sex with babies. OUR U.S. LAW MAKERS SUCK! And so does the sytem.

I WOULD HAVE BEAT THE DOG CRAP OUT MY SON THEN I WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ,THIS IS THE ULTIMATE NO NO!!!!!!!!!!

This is definitely a disfunctional family. There is no way my child would even think about talking to me in that tone of voice let alone slap me. This young man definitely had control in this situation. As a matter of fact when he slapped her she instantly became fearful of him you can tell it in her reaction to the slap. But what she should have done was to never let it get that far in the beginning. Take notice parents, this is what children do to you when you become their friends and not their parents...there is no fear...anything you fear you will respect.

Kids mimmic the behaviors of their environment. It's obvious that she does treat him the way he says and she is trying her damnest not to be exposed. He got that behavior from someone in their environment and this is the result. He's right. He is not a animal and neither is she so I suppose that is why they are both on Dr. Phil.

I would still be in a coma and a vegetative state for the rest of my natural born life if I slapped my mother like that. I, myself would be arrested had my child/children hit me like that. The camera crew couldn't get to me in that room quick enough before I knocked the hell outta one of my kids. They would have seen the future after that slap. And no way in hell would any of them be speaking to me like that. He is truly the poster child for birth control, but he is his mothers problem she created that monster.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NOT PARENTS WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND. MY DAUGHTER TRYS TO GET FRISKY WITH ME ALL THE TIME. BECAUSE THATS HOW HER FATHER RAISED HER...BUT BEST BELIEVE I TASKS THAT ASS IN A HEART BEAT. WE ARE THE PARENTS, THE MOTHER AND THE FATHER...THERFORE WE ARE TO GET RESPECT. THEY LEARN FROM US, GOD FOR BID MY DAUGHTER HAVING KIDS OF HER OWN AND LETTING THEM RUN ALL OVER HER.I SEE THAT sh*t IN A LOT "WHITE" COMMUNITIES. I WOULD HAVE WOOPED HIS ASS, NO HESITATION.

I agree with you 100%

NEEDS HIS LITTLE PUNK ASS KICKED AND BEAT....AND YOU CAN CALL THE POLICE IF YOU WANT TO!!!THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL ON EARTH WOULD I HAVE DONE SUCH A THING TO MY MOTHER...I WOULD HAVE DAMN NEAR BEEN MURDERED BY HER FIRST OF ALL, AND EVERY FAMILY MEMBER AND PERSON IN MY "COMMUNITY" WOULD HAVE ASSISTED HER...WOW, I'M SPEECHLESS, BUT IT STARTS WITH THE PARENTS....NOT MUCH MORE TO SAY ABOUT THIS ONE...WOW!

there should be no kids out there like this little boy, if it's uncontrolable now, just imagine when he's older and what he could do. Take him into a room take the belt out and use it. Punish or take away everything he wants, you need to get across to him yesterday!!!!

I know that's right!!!

This child is a good example of how children behave when corpal punishment has not been used in the up bringing. Even the Bible states that to spare the rod is to spoil the child. I don't mean abuse, but, proper discipline should be adminsistered when the behavior warrants it. I was spanked as a child and when I became an adult, I thanked my parents for loving me and teaching me by proper discipline. This young boy did not have respect for his Mother and she missed the boat long ago when he was younger and more easily taught. It will be much harder now that this bad attitude kid has gotten away with so much wrong doing.

He would have never got the first shut up out. Because soon as he raised his voice at me in the beginning of the conversation, his little ass would have been leaking all over the floor. I don't believe in a child talking back to an elder person. And if I came across one doing so, I believe I have the right to slap the sh*t out of the parent, lol. So all that's said is that we need to put more rules down and let the child know that even though you may feel a certain way, we talk it out calmly, not screaming and hitting, and that goes for anyone. And this situation with this child slapping his mom, or even acting out the elbow lick was out of line.

I am not for slapping parents, but neither I am for physically hurting our kids. Discilpine is a hard thing to learn for both kids and adults just at different levels. How would you like to be an adult and be slapped just b/c u forgot to pay a bill, or did not work out or made the bed. At that age we can take tv aay, or the room door, or sweet treats, or games time w friends etc.

RESPECT MY FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS NEEDS TO BE DISPLAYED AT EVERY AGE FOR EVERY AGE.

If he knows how to slap , he learned it from his slapping mama!

They need to have a good talk and compromise on respecting e/o and he kid to behave.

one last thing:

CONDOMS USE THEM!

I am not for slapping parents, but neither I am for physically hurting our kids. Discilpine is a hard thing to learn for both kids and adults just at different levels. How would you like to be an adult and be slapped just b/c u forgot to pay a bill, or did not work out or made the bed. At that age we can take tv aay, or the room door, or sweet treats, or games time w friends etc.

RESPECT MY FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS NEEDS TO BE DISPLAYED AT EVERY AGE FOR EVERY AGE.

If he knows how to slap , he learned it from his slapping mama!

They need to have a good talk and compromise on respecting e/o and he kid to behave.

one last thing:

CONDOMS USE THEM!

Okay, the first time he interrupted me by screaming "I didn't jab you!" whould have been the end of that conversation as the back of my hand would have been across his mouth! We would not have continued that conversation until he could show the respect required to have that conversation. I don't understand what's wrong with parents my age who have kids the age of this boy. I know that the parents were raised better because when we were kids, we DID NOT talk to our parents like this and I will NOT allow my boys to talk to me this way. Yes, I am more lienent with my boys than my parents were with me on some things, but I will not tollerate disrespect to me or anyone else! This also includes your environment, peers and material goods, not just elders. Why do kids at a baseball park, THEIR ballpark, think it's okay to throw their trash on the ground? tear up equipment? disface buildings? No one tells them any different when they do it. They must assume someone else will take care of it...not my problem. My oldest son is in middle school (8th gr this fall) and I'm on the PTO so I'm around large groups of this age group of kids a lot and I have never seen such disrespect on such a large scale in my life. Parents who do not keep close watch on their kids school work and social life should be ashamed of the way their children act in public...I'll bet they would be shocked to know how they actually act and treat others. But back to the clip, this boy needs help with his anger and a good lesson in respect for his parents and other adults as well as peers (or a good can of whoop-ass!) and the Mom should have put her foot in his ass a long time ago...she won't be able to change this situation with out some outside help at this point...he's too old now. Good luck with that Lady!

I would kill himmmmmm!!!!!!

Needless to say, I agree with you 100%!! Although I can understand a parent keeping their cool, the point is that the Rod has been spared...now, it's just time for the Rod to be implemented by any means necessary...I'm not talking an eye for an eye, I'm just speaking about plain ol' fashion discipline at best!

I live in Birmingham but my hand would have traveled from St. Louis to bust that little bastard in his jaw...

im sorry but i am with you on this ACS would have been knocking on my door because it aint time out its time is the f#@$#@k up cause i GOING TO WHOOP i mean whoop his ass 4real its not a gmae
thanks to society we are not allowe to hit our kids thats why theses kids think they can do what they want and get away with IT by the threat im gonna call the popo but sh*t i will whoop my kids in a newyork minute and tell them while your at it call the ambulance to cause thats where your going to be beat and dont care what the consiquinces are

If he was son I would have beat his ass. He would have not been telling me to shut up and slapped my face, when I feed him, and pay the bills.When I got done with him he would have never told me to shut up and raised his hand at me again.

They would have still been trying to get me off his azz. There is NO way on earth or in this life would I allow my child, someone I birthed slap me, tell me to shut and get a way with it.

I WOULD HAVE WHOOPED HIS AZZZ ON NATIONAL TV!!!!! I WISH ONE OF MY KIDS WOULD....

Since I am the mom, provide food, clothing and everything else they need, then yeah...I'm the BIGGEST MF'ing BOSS in my house!!!!

Little brat, needs to be kicked a few more times.

My mouth is still wide open.. his posture was all wrong.. forget the slap he would of had to correct his posture.. He would of never made it to that point.. Oh my God what else dose he beat him mother now.. Pray for them both.. One~Love

I would have snatched his ass up so fast he wouldn't have even known what hit his ass. The one thing you never do to your parents is try to raise your hand at them, because if you did you lost your arm, because parents in my day growing up did not play, and this was in the late 70's to 80's.

Back in my day, I would have had false teeth at age 10 and lispe when I talked after that one.

My sentiments exactly! I love my child, but he'd have to go before I'd live with that kind of foolishness!

Man let me say this the bible says that if you spare the rod-you spoil the child. As a young father of two boys that is as so many have said unacceptable. To those who congratulate of the mother being cool-well what it lets me know is that this isn't the first time. Sounds a lot like domestic abuse. I agree that you should never go word for word with a child in either play nor reality. Parents these days want to be friends with their children, there is no being both. Most don't understand the meaning to be a parent-a guide in this world not the best friend. Draw the line, you have a whole other relationship to build with your significant other that you don't spend the same amount of time and energy with-attempting to appease the kids. But, if you don't believe me, continue to let the government and authorities tell you how to raise your kids, and watch that same system lock them up and allow a civil suit be levied against you for some wrongful act your child did.

Ty Legend

these people need GOD. Pray for them.

This is learned behavior. When you start hitting/spanking your children, they will eventually hit others, if not you. (Or, let out their aggression another way...)
Kat

This kind of attitude is not acceptable. He is one of those dysfunctional children that will lock his mother up and take her Social Security Check! This kind of behavior must had started at an early age. Spare the rod and spoil the child!

Oh my I'm shaking just watching this little demon boy talk to that crazy woman who obviously is not his mother

There is more to this than you can see in three minutes... that kid had a LOT of pent up frustration... his sister died 3 years before and his mother kinda shut down and checked out as a parent. she also resented him because he lived. where I agree that he does not have the right to put his hands on another human being, you have to know the WHOLE story before making judgement calls... he told the show that his mother does exactly what he did to her ALL the time and he wanted her to know what it felt like. when you grow up in abuse (no matter what kind) you perpetuate it... this is a sad example of what happens when you dont know how to parent...

Oh yeah... There's no doubt in my mind that this kid will end up in jail before he hits 21. Its the parents fault and the mother deserved to be slapped. Maybe not by her own son, because that is flat out disrespectful, but she needed that reality check! I didnt see the whole episode, but where the hell is dad? Im 99.99% positive that the father openly argues with the mother right in front of this kid -- or maybe even beats her. The kid had to get his temperment from somewhere, and the way he disrespected his mom seemed like a daily occurance. He knows that there will be little to no repercussions stemming from his actions... Personally, I would whip his ***, but I'm sure that even a whoopin cant change this kid. At this point, no one can change his ways. He needs to make the change himself, and I fear that by the time he realizes that he needs to make that change, he will already be in jail... I hope I am wrong. Damn shame too, this kid seems VERY intelligent. I wish them luck...

- Dr. Sean

She is Sooooooooo stupid for letting this little mentally ill child-man continue with his ways. He has no empathy and he is probably a socio-path. This little fool is hurting and his mother probably treats him like her man and thats why he has so much adult-like domination qualities. He
is tainted in more ways than we can imagine. It's mostly her fault that he is like that. She should sign his little butt up for some bootcamp training or else he will grow up t be an abuser or worse a mass murderer.
The child is acting more like the adult, he even knows that he is better off living with someone else besides his mother. This mother has psychological problems that she has passed on to the child. She's a sneaky bitch trying to let the world think she is an abused person! If she keep's it up, then the child will grow to hate her and she will become the abused one. Because she is permitting his abuse now, even when she can take control of the child, she behaves like a passive lamb, waiting to be slaughtered. This tormented child will do exactly that, at the first opportunity he gets. He probably has seen his dad modeling this behavior towards the mom. She was probably a batttered wife and now she is allowing herself to be an abused and battered parent.

She is Sooooooooo stupid for letting this little mentally ill child-man continue with his ways. He has no empathy and he is probably a socio-path. This little fool is hurting and his mother probably treats him like her man and thats why he has so much adult-like domination qualities. He
is tainted in more ways than we can imagine. It's mostly her fault that he is like that. She should sign his little butt up for some bootcamp training or else he will grow up t be an abuser or worse a mass murderer.
The child is acting more like the adult, he even knows that he is better off living with someone else besides his mother. This mother has psychological problems that she has passed on to the child. She's a sneaky bitch trying to let the world think she is an abused person! If she keep's it up, then the child will grow to hate her and she will become the abused one. Because she is permitting his abuse now, even when she can take control of the child, she behaves like a passive lamb, waiting to be slaughtered. This tormented child will do exactly that, at the first opportunity he gets. He probably has seen his dad modeling this behavior towards the mom. She was probably a batttered wife and now she is allowing herself to be an abused and battered parent.

Wooooorrrrrddd!! Where's Madea?

OMG, THAT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ME!!!!!!I WOULD BE IN JAIL. I THINK I NEED A DRINK!!! THAT IS JUST TOOOOOO MUCH. I CAN'T DEAL WITH IT.

Today's generation is weaker and wiser. We are living in the last days when the bible speaks of mothers against daughters, sons against fathers, etc. This child has been allowed to control his situation far too long without any discipline for his actions, yes the bottom line is I would definitely be locked up now. As my mother always said, I brought you into this world and I'll take you out of it. He defies authority and will likely be locked up if his mother doesn't start putting her foot down.

I'm right there with you, I would definitely be locked up because he would have probably swallowed all of his teeth after I slapped the sh*t out of his ass. These kids today are crazy and have no respect for adults. I bet she bus her ass everyday so he can have his room decked out with all kinds of crap. I am getting mad just typing, my kids know, the only place their allowed to raise a hand is in the classroom.