Good Parenting

[Jay 2K Winger]

At the wholesale club today, saw this little girl clearly monkeying around, crawling under the conveyor belts of the registers, even doing the wagging-the-fingers-on-the-sides-of-the-head and going "Nyah, nyah, you can't get me!"

...to her mother.

Needless to say, Mama got her hands on the girl and promptly buckled her into the seat on the cart. Little Girl (who had to be at least eight years old) does not like this, and starts whining, then crying. I mean full-on SOBBING. She wants to get down. Mama says, "No, you're in trouble." Girl: "NO, I'M NOT IN TROUBLE!"

She carries on for about ten minutes at full-volume screaming and sobbing and whining, while Mama and Dad and Grandma just ignore her fit-throwing.

Girl eventually quieted down, but was still moping and crying and upset. I recognized the signs of "I'm not giving up, I'm just catching my breath to start up again later." But Mama did not back down.

The whole family eventually left, the Girl still insisting "I'm not in trouble," and I heard her burst into full-volume as they were walking out the door.

I applaud that woman for not caving in or otherwise going into Angry Mom Yelling (or worse) in public.

[surreal20]

the only other thing that should have been done to be "on the correct side" as the "supernanny" would say, would be to take the child outside into the car and have a time out there and then after that, explain why they were put there.

In other words, one of the parents should have taken the child outside to calm her down and to save the agony of her yelling for the other. Other than that....YAY FOR REAL PARENTING!

[pitmonkey]

The worst thing I could tell my girls when they missbehaved while out was "Do you want to go out to the car." Depending on how they were acting, was what happened at the car.