The summons stated that his son is to appear in the Subordinate Courts in March, accompanied by a parent. A classmate's mother has accused Peter's son of assaulting her son last year, resulting in a fracture in his right wrist and head injuries."
Read more here.
Regardless which boy is telling the truth, or whether the adults are equally childish, I applaud the action taken, because this will help to restrain the wanton behaviour of kids and perhaps even adults. For those who like to claim 'freedom of expression', suing someone is one such expression too, albeit not a common one in Singapore... At least... not yet.
Root of the problem: It is ridiculous how children are allowed to play 'freely', as part of freedom of expression, these days.
Not only are they not stopped by parents/tenders to scream, shout, run, push/pull/hit things/people, they are encouraged to do so. As part of freedom of expression? Or some kind of new age parenting principle? Or just that it's easier to not do anything to restrain the child?
Such behaviour is easily observable in offline and online public spaces.
In an offline public space such as a shopping centre, you can observe parents and their kids directly. The lack of action to stop their kids + active encouragement leading to more screams and shouts. One of the most ridiculous I've seen was a father playing with his little boy. Kid was shrieking as the duo chased each other on the wet floor beside the swimming pool, jumped into the pool, climbed out, and repeated the cycle. I guess there are 2 ways to end that cycle. Either they get tired and stop, or one of them gets injured then it's not so much fun anymore. Common sense really isn't very common. It wasn't clear which of the two was the kid. O_o
Online, you can get into these parents' minds and read about their thoughts (i.e. intention) as they describe what a fun weekend they had provided for their kids, by inviting the cousins over to jump from the masterbed to the floor in their HDB flat, complete with uploaded pictures of the precious moments. The following blog entry: How the parents found out that their neighbours living downstairs are 'crazy', because the latter complained about the loud noises from the above. The fact that these adults blog about their thoughts/parenting choices openly demonstrates that they think those are alright.
While these play activities may be 'cute' to watch when they are toddlers, such encouragement leads to ill-developed sense of what's 'right' and 'wrong' when interacting with others. Firstly, the kid does not realise how his screams/actions affect others. Secondly, the kid does not care.
For parents who like to act blur (coz it's the easiest way out), this arrangement sounds fine, until the parent of some other kid sues, or worse still, your kid comes home with a broken arm. Then try explaining the situation to your child, and make a public claim that your child is 'traumatised' by the unnecessary act of being sued. =_=
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