There are far too many stupid people in this world, and unfortunately most of those have kids. Some years ago I saw a woman slapping her kid repeatedly telling him/her to stop crying. Like slapping a kid across the head is going to make them stop crying!!!!!!!!!!! I walked up to her and told her to slap someone her own size who has a chance of slapping her back and offered up myself, making sure she knew she was going to get one in return if she hit me. I told her that if I saw her lay another hand on that kid I was going to take that child with me and turn it over to social services and press charges against her for child abuse. Some people are sooooo sick!!!!!!!!! As for the cough syrup, I would have bought it myself, just because the child obviously needed it, and the parents were too darn stupid to put her needs ahead of their own.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi