This one is for all the mothers out there who are tired of the typical parenting "how to" that are obviously written by child "experts" who have never had a child.
Anyone read the Yahoo article about how if your child starts throwing a tantrum in the grocery store, you are to leave your full grocery cart -- "you can always go grocery shopping again another day" -- take your child out to the car, and just sit nicely talking to him for however long it takes for him to calm down. Geez -- I don't have time to grocery shop twice. What do you do with your other child(ren) -- punish them, too, making them sit in a car with a screaming child?
Anyway - this is a little humor for parenting......
Tough Love vs. Spanking - Good Argument
Most of America's populace think it improper to spank children, so I have tried other methods to control my kids when they have one of 'those moments.' One that I found effective is for me to just take the child for a car ride and talk.
Some say it's the vibration from the car, others say it's the time away from any distractions such as TV, Video Games, Computer, IPod, etc.
Either way, my kids usually calm down and stop misbehaving after our car ride together.
I've included a photo below of one of my sessions with my son, in case you would like to use the technique
I think this will work with grandchildren, neices and nephews as well.
Posted by: JuMPer Date posted: Sun Apr 27 16:45:59 2008
Message: That gave me a chuckle.
The leave the cart...ruffles my feathers. THAT KID NEEDS TO LEARN THAT WHEN THE FAMILY GOES SHOPPING that he is to behave. We may cut the trip a bit short and leave out a few things, not that he would know, but he would think we WOULD GET what we came for, and mister tantrum would not interfere with that. A trip to the resident restroom and a good, firm, personal discussion just might be on the shopping list, also.
The above would come after having exhausted the let's find the ..... and we are almost finished didn't work.
(BTW: That whole "leave your cart and go shopping the next day" garbage just cracks me UP! Who leaves a whole cart after investing that time w/ a child who's already gone through the whole terrible shopping experience??? I think most people can understand a child having a breakdown and the parent honestly trying to deal and if they can't...oh well, I did my best!!!)
Posted by: Ginger G Date posted: Fri Apr 25 13:58:56 2008
Message:
That is too funny! By the way, does that speed monitoring sign say 49 or 99?
Posted by: sandy Date posted: Fri Apr 25 13:05:40 2008
Message: Love it but I won't let my granddaughter see it!
Posted by: fuzzwuzz Date posted: Fri Apr 25 12:59:14 2008
Message: OMG, I sure didn't expect that!! Just made me bust out laughing!!! The cat looked at me like "WTH???" If hubby were home he'd be yelling "what's funny?" Thanks for the LOL!!!
