Do you let your children have their way in public? because you don't want to seem like a "bad Parent". I've always disaplined mine anywhere anytime if the need be.
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Stillme FBB
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Im not a parent, but If I was, Im with you. As soon as Kids learn they have diplomatic Immunity in Public, its all over (seen it many a time, annoys me no end). A Family friend of ours, dealt rather effectively with a Shopping center tantrum thrown by his 4 year old daughter. He Got down on the ground, and started throwing a tantrum of his own. Embarrassed the hell out of her, and she never threw another one again. : )
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I am not a parent, but I have always seen kids screaming in a grocery store for something they can't have while their parents just try to ignore it and eventually throw it into the cart and I wonder, what do they think they are going to accomplish? Those are the bad parents.
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My children are mostly grown now, but I never let them get their way. When my daughter was young she once threw herself on the floor of the store we were in, screaming and yelling. (she wanted something and I had told her no) I turned my back on her and started to walk off. She thought I was going to leave her there, so jumped up, stopped screaming and followed me. I got many dirty looks from people in the store, but the tantrum stopped and she never did it again.
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you are 100 percent right. no means no, no matter where you are.
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When my boys were little and would act up, I would take to the bathroom, to have a swat the butt discussion with them. After a couple times, all I had to do was say "do you want to go to the bathroom", no one knew what I meant except the boys, it would instantly stop the tantrums. Worked great.
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No, my children followed the rules in public or they were removed from "the public" to a quiet place where we can "discuss it."
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Screw what people think. If my kid was misbehaving in public, I took care it then, not back at the car, or when we got home. Most adults who are parents can tell pretty quickly if what you are doing is over the top. I own a bike shop and I cannot tell you how irritating it is when they allow them to run wild and tear up my store. Most often I bite my tongue, but sometimes I don't. I will discipline the child for them. In a nice way. When a parent or parents come into the shop with a passle of kids and the kids behave and are well mannered and listen, I give the parents and the kids positive feedback also.
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No chance... its my rules no matter where we are
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I don't have children, but if I did I would never discipline them in public. I would do that privately. It would be a planned ordeal, not an off the wall, flying off the handle, lost temper kind of a thing. I would first tell my child what the crime was and what the punishment will be for that crime. I would require them to behave in public just as in private but I would not shame them by spanking them publicly. Children are human and they ought to be treated with dignity and respect just like the rest of us.
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My 10 year old I am very firm with in public. My 4 year old who is Autistic is more of a challenge. He is hard to control but not because he is being a brat, he just doesn't see the world the way we do. I overlook a lot with him.
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You seem like a bad parent if you dont have control over your kids in public. The respect for you should have been established before you left the house, but if the kid does act out they should be corrected on the spot. I'm not talking about spanking them in the grocery store. You shouldn't have to strike your kids to discipline them. They should have enough respect for your words.
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I don't have kids, but if I did have any and they were misbehaving, I'd remove them from the store immediately to administer whatever punishment I saw fit to give. Yelling at or spanking a child in public would only serve to increase the parent's embarrassment by drawing more attention to the situation, which is why the child's misbehavior is problematic in the first place.
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