While at a public park with your children, you notice another child taunting and teasing your children, before you know it the child's mother yanks them to the car and begins to smack them.
You are aware of New Zealand’s ‘anti-smacking’ laws and that the mother’s actions may actually be illegal. You also can appreciate the challenges of parenting. You agree with disciplining your children, and have smacked your children for doing wrong before the smacking bill came forward.
The mother returns from the car with the child and sits at the same seat as you. You’re wondering whether you should tell the mother that it is now against the law to smack her children? Or do you say nothing, given that the child was so mean to yours.