Spoiled Chinese Boy Hits Grandma on Nanjing Subway, Reactions

From Sina Weibo:

#Boy Hits Grandma On Subway#

Recently, on Nanjing Subway Line 2, a boy repeatedly hit his grandma with a thermos mug, yelling “you are sick”. When his grandma tried to take away the thermos mug, the boy even slapped her in her face and viciously kicked her legs…It is reported that the boy has been spoiled at home, and this incident may have been a result of [the grandma] saying something he didn’t want to hear. How can this “wild/naughty kid [brat]” be saved?!

Comments from Sina Weibo:

leslie_rong：

You cannot treat a person too well just as you cannot feed a dog too well.

豆瓣kaka：

Get his parents and grandparents back to learn how to be parents and elders.

桐克莎：

His parents must fight a lot at home.

summer姗姗：

Kids all learn from their parents, so we can see that his parents obviously don’t respect his grandma either. So sad.

译者老混混：

If you don’t take good care of a kid now, just let “Uncle Police” takes care of him someday.

拒绝家撸撸：

My nephew is like this too, with the exception of being relatively behaved in front of his parents. He probably got spoiled by his grandparents. One time, for no reason, he tried to hit me, and I bluntly stopped him. I’m not gonna put up with that, who do you think you are?

水瓶座858：

All the Nanjing people I know are kind of not in right in the head.

赵坚赵默默：

[I bet] if a bystander got involved [to chastise the kid], his grandma wouldn’t be happy about it either.

和勤公益社：

There is no “problem child”, only “child problems”. How parents raise a child is crucial. Among that, how do you manage “grandparents education [how grandparents treat or raise grandchildren]”? What’s everyone’s opinion?

李雪Ida1130：

How much I’d cherish my grandmother if I [still] had one! This absolutely has something to do with he kid’s parents.

郭端端_：

If my kid treated my mom like this, I would bury him! Just in case his son would treat me like this.

Comments from Phoenix Online:

凤凰网广东省网友：火箭0414

Children these days are all only children [of their families], spoiled by the entire family, who can’t bear to hit or scold them. If they had siblings, would they still be like this?

凤凰网吉林省白山市网友：一目了然之白山

To spoil a kid is as bad as to kill a kid. If they continue to indulge the kid, he might take a knife and kill his entire family.

凤凰网吉林省长春市网友：dongzhenjie

Like father like son.

凤凰网四川省网友：qingxibaihu

I’m betting the grandma is just getting what she deserves! The grandson being so tyrannical has everything to do with his grandma spoiling him normally.

凤凰网四川省成都市网友：冷竣的微笑

What is “you cannot simply criticize the kid [as said by the news anchor, who went on to say after all the child is young, and thus family upbringing and school education deserves reflection]”? Such a kid must be taught a lesson he will remember for the rest of his life, because some things simply are not allowed [such as disrespecting one’s elders]. Spare the rod, spoil the kid.

凤凰网新疆昌吉市网友：全民同盟

An undisciplined kid has his father to blame.” [A child who is] only rude and unreasonable to his family will be a coward outside his family.

凤凰网四川省网友：凤凰网友

It is obvious that this naughty kid knows he isn’t supposed to hit an elder, so trying to reason with him is useless. Only a rod can make him honest. This is animal instinct.

凤凰网北京市网友：凤凰网友

[Parents who] only know how to give birth, but do not know how to raise children. [I’m afraid] the parents themselves aren’t far from the day they themselves are going to be hit [by this kid].

凤凰网重庆市网友：qiaogongdui

This fully proves that the kid’s parents themselves do not respect this old lady at all.

凤凰网广东省中山市网友：桃源之客

The key is that this is a problem lies of school education. China’s elementary schools today simply do not attach any importance to children’s moral character education.

凤凰网四川省网友：凤凰网友

The kid was just horsing around with his grandma, just take a closer look at the video. A big deal about nothing.

凤凰网河南省三门峡市网友：星空蛙鸣

Children who are spanked rarely blame/resent their parents when they grow up.

凤凰网广东省广州市荔湾区网友：沙丘农民的儿子

The worst is the person who took the video!

Comments from NetEase:

网易内蒙古包头市手机网友

The fact that the kid hits his grandma now means that he will hit his parents in the future, which they deserve.

网易河北省石家庄市手机网友

You call him “little”? In our village, a 2-year-old child is even more sensible [well-behaved] than he is; he’s asking for a beating.

网易山东省济南市网友

Such a kid should be beat to death, because he will just grow up to be trouble [for society].

网易广东省深圳市罗湖区手机网友

I’ve seen something like this when I visited Hainan for vacation. ”An undisciplined kid has his father to blame.” Parents nowadays just spoil their kids too much!

网易河北省衡水市手机网友

This kind of phenomenon is too common in China, and if the situation continues like this, Chinese people are going to be ruined by themselves.

网易浙江省温州市网友

You get what you plant [reap what you sow]. If this kid continues to be spoiled, he’ll definitely grow up to be trouble. If I were his father, I guarantee I would give him a beating.

网易广东省深圳市手机网友

[She] deserves being hit! Stupid cunt elder [grandparent]!

网易北京市网友

That’s what they get for spoiling the kid.

易福建省泉州市手机网友

This kid truly should be slapped to death.