Lions RB Reggie Bush was a guest on CBS New York’s Boomer and Carton Show discussing Adrian Peterson beating the hell out of his four-year old and the latest black eye for the NFL. However, instead of initially outright condemning Peterson’s action though, Bush dug himself a hole pretty quick:
I most definitely discipline my daughter. I have a 1-year-old daughter, and I discipline her. Obviously, every person is different, and I definitely will use my best judgement to discipline her depending on the situation and what happens. I definitely will try to obviously not leave bruises or anything like that on her, but I definitely will discipline her, harshly, depending on what the situation is.
Bush however quickly backtracked on those initial comments according to ESPN:
“Obviously I’m not going to be spanking a 1-year-old girl,” Bush said. “We do discipline her a little bit because she does this thing now where if she doesn’t like something of if you say something to her she doesn’t like, she kind of swings at you.
“So we’re already starting to implement little things like talking to her and saying that’s not OK. I think obviously people took it too far and [said] I was doing much worse and that’s not the case.”
My question… how do you discipline a one-year old? A four-year old in Peterson’s case really has no cognitive realization of right and wrong while a one-year old is still crapping their pants and still learning how to walk. Furthermore there’s a few troubling keywords within Bush’s initial statements and those given to ESPN. First, Bush will ‘try not to leave bruises’? Or how about when Bush was trying to dig himself out of his grave he goes and becomes Harry Wong saying he talks to his daughter saying certain things she does aren’t ok? What exactly is she doing? Wetting her diaper? Throwing her food on the ground? Crying when she’s tired?
Reggie, just quit talking.