"I told you to shut up!" shouts the mom in the store. The next thing I hear is a reverberating SLAP as she hit her 3-year-old daughter's face.
The slap did not slow the child down a bit. She was just as unruly throughout the rest of the store as she was before. Obviously the slap did not mean anything to either the mom or the daughter. It was just a way of expressing anger - not even intended to discipline.
