raeanna74

One more thing for those of you working in a store. Don't necessarily look down on every parent who has to correct a child in the store. Children frequently choose a public forum to test their bounderies because parents are hesistant to punish publicly. For toddlers this is difficult because the consequences has to be immediate or they won't connect the consequences to the action. What I would look down on is when a parent tells a kid "no" in the cashout line, they start screaming, and the parent promptly hands them the candy they were asking for. I would actually prefer to hear the kid cry rather than see the parent reinforce the child's thinking that they can throw a tantrum and get what they want.

Also it's not always feasible to leave a full grocery cart with frozen items in the cashout line or any other place in the store. That checkout lane is where I see the most frequent tantrums, partly because of the glaring presence of candy. If stores would rather make no candy sales instead of listening to the screams of children then they should move the candy. They don't - because children are their best sales associates.

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