I understand where you're coming from, howdy, but I get just as irritated at moms who stay in a store when their kids are having tantrums and act like it isn't happening. Get 'em out of the store, now!, and take them home and then go back without them. I don't care how inconvenient it is. It won't happen very often until that kid realizes he isn't going to win by having a tantrum.
Don't bring your overtired kid hoping he will fall asleep in a store with brightly colored objects everywhere that will obviously keep him awake. And don't take that kid to the restroom and talk to him. Negative attention is still attention. Jeez! I want to slap that stupid mother.
I hate screaming brats and mothers on cell phones who act like nothing is happening. You hit a nerve. One of the things that really pisses me off.
Urchins that specialize in screeching and running about willy nilly in public use to bug me almost to the point of tripping them to change their reason for howling.......
No. its not that I've mellowed out any, I just take out my hearing aids and position my knees and elbows to brunt possible collisions......
I sometimes go out of my way to compliment parents whose children behave decently especially when a lot of bystanders are around ........
So There.............
My mom and grandma told us, "You will not give me a shamed face in public" We would get one warning and then we were told we would be punished when we got home. And we always were - a spanking(not beating) and then had to sit on a chair in the corner for quite some time. I think dreading what would happen when we got home was worse than the actual punishment. Mom and Grandma NEVER made threats they didn't carry out.
I don't wait til I get home I spank in public and to hell with the onlookers or the very folks who bitch about kids throwing a tantrum. Unlike you I had no one to watch my kids and yes they threw fits but they got punished when they did it not when they got home.
eecgeorgia is right. Both my brother and me and my children were taken everywhere. We were taught not to touch things; not to run around "like wild Indians" and generally to behave. And, we all did. We never got spanked in any generation. My father had a father who beat his wife and children, and my father never raised a hand to us. My mother agreed. We still behaved, out of respect for them. When I was 18, and my friends lied to get alcohol in restaurants, I didn't. It wasn't because I was an angel; it was because the idea of having my parents have to come to the police station to pick me up was more than I could bear.
Govwatcher good for you. I am not afraid to spank either. There is a huge difference between a smack and a beating but people will never agree on it. My point is look at the world today............where did NOT spanking get you? A world of misbehaved degenerates that go shoot up people in school. Discipline is what a child needs and from me is what they get. I could take my kids anywhere and was never shamed by them. They raised their kids the same way. The fact is if you begin with the baby and carry on the way you mean to continue, to actually have to spank is rare. I watch my neices children, I may have smacked a few hands when they were small but believe me, they love and respect me and behave with me. Unlike how they behave when their parents arrive to take them home. Its a question of being consistent and meaning what you say, following through and not being afraid to be the bad guy. They are your children not your friends. You fail as a parent if you do not gain their respect and obedience when they are small..............its too late if you wait until they are older. Its a darn shame that schools are not allowed to discipline children any more, and we can all see the results of that tragedy.
When I was a little boy I got busted for lying on my back looking up the dress of a mannequin. I was generally well behaved but that mannequin.....
Mannequins are just sluts. Everybody knows that.......lolololol
Not just sluts, but horny sluts....they have hard nips. I mean, really....what the hell kind of person buys a top based on if it looks good with nips poking out?????
I was raised by my grandmother who made me go 'get a switch to spank you with'
Only one time did I try to get a wimpy switch........... Grandma was my hero, first last and always. I respected her, I knew she always meant what she said, and where I stood. I raised mine the same way: firm yet with lots of hugs and love. They never pitched a fit in public, never back talked more than once, and are now nice, normal, never been in trouble adults. A far cry from what I see when I'm out and about.
Yeah, I've had to do the 'walk of shame' to collect a switch to get spanked with. I tried the 'wimpy switch' maneuver too, didn't work for me either. ;~)
