Whilst having a lovely holiday meal ,our adjacent table ,a German family with smal children caught our attention.
A three year old child was plying up a bit so the mother in an attempt to get the child in line grabbed her arm pinned it to the table and pressed a steak knife on it with the obvious ultimatum that behave or get slashed.
Now I attempted to see if the child had old scars as a result of previous excrursions but she seemed unscathed.
The child however seemed pretty traumatised but ten minutes later she was fucking around again and was dragged out to a quiet location for an obvious beating and then brought back.
Seems the knife trick doesn't work in case anyone considers it in the future, unless you go through with it of course.
that parenting technique is called how to create a serial killer
I would have said something
its poor parenting that has led to the child being unruly in the first place