I was thinking about cancelling my cable, but I'm dying to see the reaction to this show. Which means, of course, I'll have to watch it.

This is why teachers call cops on elementary age kids, cause no one can punish kids without having the cops called on them.

If this is going to be a legal drama, it's going to be a piss-poor one. It lacks the substance even for half an episode of "Law & Order," much less an ongoing television series.

If this went to court this would be open and shut. Did the uncle have the right to strike the child under defense? Yes. Did he have the right to discipline a child that wasn't his? Probably. Did he use excessive force? No.

Case closed.

The most damaging thing to the child, I think, is the excessive coddling that the parents indulged in. "Oh, how awful! Our child will be scarred for life!" They're teaching this kid how to play the victim card, and they think he's too young to learn this, they're sorely mistaken.

What they should have done is explain to the child, "I'm sorry you were slapped, however, swinging the bat around was dangerous, and you should have put it down when your uncle told you to. And you should not have kicked your uncle."

End of discussion.

My first younger brother was a biter. But kids at church, school(this was in the early 90's before it would get a kindergartner arrested), my dad, his mom.

They couldnt get him to stop. One day he bit me. I bit him back, I was 15?16? I think. He certainly didnt like it, went crying to his mom, but he never bit anyone again.