The Train

So the train is a modern form of transport popular with many people in this day and age, it is used for transport to work, school or just to get away from somewhere.

So I use the train everyday, but one thing caught my eye today as i was returning home, I boarded the train as usual and sitting in the priority seat was a mother and child. The mother was frantically trying to find something in the pushchair while the toddler was told to sit down. he just wouldn't listen, he would lye over two chairs. I couldn't see anything wrong with this as it wasn't too busy in the train and no one needed the seat. The mother argued with him to sit up and he argued back. This went on until she sat down put him over her knee and smacked him. People moved further down the train away, she was creating a scene.

So there is two point in this, smacking the child is one point, it wasn't necessary. But i think the biggest point in this was the selfishness of the mother. She could of let him lay down and that would of been it, but no she had to argue to get her way. So everyone's journey home from work, the quiet time of day, was disrupted by this mother. Not only was this a problem but the child knew he was messing his mother about so if she'd of left him to lye down then he wouldn't of got a reaction and wouldn't of cared. So now that he knows that he can get a reaction he will probably do this again.