It depends on the age of the child. If the child is small, then it is to be expected that, at some time, it will react antisocially. Nevertheless, it is embarrassing. I am a pastor's wife. When my second daughter was little, our senior pastor used to call post-church get-togethers once a month. My little one, who was about 12-18mo wanted to sleep at that time, and did not like to be out of her bed, so she would always throw a wobbly. One of the young pastors was very condescending to me once, asking me if I had seen some well-known child discipline films. I bit my tongue then hissed "Short of knocking her senseless, what would you have me do? She wants to sleep." I was soooo angry. I prayed that God would send him and his new wife a child like mine...and Lo! (LOL) ten or so years later I ran into him and he apologised for the incident, having now a child JUST LIKE MINE!(God 1 Prig 0 LOL) In short, there isn't a lot you can do with littlies. People should know better, but they don't. If they are friends, hopefully they will help. If they are strangers, then don't worry about their opinions. Of course, as the child gets older, it is helpful to make sure they know how to behave. Even then, though, there is bound to be a wobbly every now and then. Cheer up. You get through it. :-)

I am not a parent..all I can say is that when I was a child..I would have been removed from the situation immediately....

Define poorly??? Children act like children , as they grow and see how those around them act they adjust and learn what is socially acceptable. You deal with them depending on where you are and what they are doing. I was never embarrassed by anything my son did.

I always told my kids that if they embarrass me I am going to embarrass them. I had to follow through with it with a verbal confrontation tight then and there in front of everyone and they did not like it one bit and it never happened again.