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Originally posted by Darkblack
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You should be able to teach your child to behave without it becoming physical. You should not have to restrain your child so you don't have to pay attention to what they are doing.
and there are more things like this that are taking away from our children what we should be teaching them.
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Wow!
You're *shoulding* all over the place here!
Holding all children and all parents to our standards is not logical.
We are all brought up differently.
And everyone, going on about how
your parents brought
you up isn't the issue--kiddy harnesses were not in common usage 20 or so years ago. This is a different and more potentially dangerous society we live in now.
How the heck is a mother supposed to pay perfect attention to her wee one and shop for food at the same time? By putting the child in the cart? Do you have any idea how many kids fall out of carts? What, you're going to hold their hand while you pluck things off the shelf? How 'bout when you have to fish around to pay for things?
This argument against a parent taking a humane measure for
the safety of her child is not logical in any way.
And again, car seats are far more restrictive--and they are used for the same reason--to control & protect the child.
Jeebus people, children are
not miniature adults.
(Just for the record, my kids were/are very well-behaved in public.
The one time the youngest began to act up, I wheeled my cart up to the front desk, apologized that I needed to leave immediately, and did so.)