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Originally Posted by GakFace
i remember once when I was in best buy.. some little girl was having a temper tantrum, and she got mad and just laid down on the floor, to prove she wasn't going anywhere.. mind you she wasn't staying all that quiet. The mother was mad and said FINE! YOU JUST STAY THERE! and let her stay there. That pissed me off. Her husband was smart and got his daughter and brought her outside.. only to have his wife give him that evil glare. Yes, she was a smart one, "Lets just let the kid stay here and make an Ass out of my parenting skills.. If I have any.."
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Quite frankly, letting the kid have the temper tantrum *is* good parenting under many circumstances. I can think of a number of times when my son was three and he had a tantrum about something or other while we were shopping... My attitude is don't give him the attention he is looking for... walk away and let him make a specatacle of himself. He will (and did) quickly realize how pointless the tears and moaning really are.
If I were to go to him and ask him to be quite, etc. it would have been pointless. You can't reason with a three year old. I certainly wasn't going to hit him.
He learned, quite quickly actually, that nothing was going to come of his inappropropriate actions and stopped doing them.
Did it annoy a few of my fellow shoppers? Sure. Did I feel bad about it... very little.
Did my method work? Damn straight.