Reason #1 on my list of why I don't have kids. My patience for that is about 5 nanoseconds and the kid would die.

Might show this to my girlfriend before she starts banging on about living together and having kids again

I don't have any kids or want any. But just for any people out there with kids, they do come with a reset button. To reset the kid, beat them on the butt untill unaceptable behavior stops.

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There is a solution to this. I've been in this situation (I have a daughter, and another one on the way). And it does not require beating the kid.

Pick the kid up, throw him over your shoulder, and leave the store. When you get to the car / wherever, you let them scream and fuss and kick and whatever they want for as long as they want. Hell, lock them in and walk away for a couple minutes if you have to (and no, I'm not condoning abandoning a child in a hot car with no air).

but the very last thing you should do is give that kid what he wants, because that just reinforces the attitude.

^ Same principle can be applied to forum trolls (minus the locking in a car, unless one is handy)

Quote: Originally Posted by godling Pick the kid up, throw him over your shoulder, and leave the store. When you get to the car / wherever, you let them scream and fuss and kick and whatever they want for as long as they want. Hell, lock them in and walk away for a couple minutes if you have to.

That plus some in-ear or noise canceling headphones, and some calming tunes and deep breaths.

Quote: Originally Posted by godling There is a solution to this. I've been in this situation (I have a daughter, and another one on the way). And it does not require beating the kid. Pick the kid up, throw him over your shoulder, and leave the store. When you get to the car / wherever, you let them scream and fuss and kick and whatever they want for as long as they want. Hell, lock them in and walk away for a couple minutes if you have to (and no, I'm not condoning abandoning a child in a hot car with no air). but the very last thing you should do is give that kid what he wants, because that just reinforces the attitude.

I have two kids, one 7 and one 16 months, and all I will say is: been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, and wore it out.

But it does work. Eventually

My daughter threw a fit in the store 1 time. Yes, I said *1* time.
My oldest daughter was sitting in the cart and the youngest decided to throw a fit because they were out of blue squeeze-its. She started jumping up and down and screaming.

I'm standing there in heels and a 2 piece suit (skirt & jacket). I proceeded to jump up and down and throw a fit ---mimicking her movements---and screaming louder than her. People started peeking in from each end of the aisle. (It was a small store.)

It didn't take long for my daughter to decide her fit was over and she scrambled back to the cart trying to hide from all the staring eyes.

My only comment to her was something like "Until you can throw a fit better than I can - don't do it again."

I received superior check-outs and customer service from that store for months after that happened.

To this day my girls remember that incident and my youngest said she was going to do that to her daughter if she ever threw a fit in the store. LOLOLOL

My girls are 20 & 21 and the grand baby is 2.5

Quote: Originally Posted by Que_66 My girls are 20 & 21

Lemme get their number tell em to holla at a playa

Once in a store while my child was throwing a fit I smacked his ass. A man walked up to me to tell me that it was wrong to hit a child, so I kicked his ass. Child rearing is easy if you use the right methods.

Quote: Originally Posted by j-dogg Lemme get their number tell em to holla at a playa

they'd kick ur azz....

Quote: Originally Posted by BigAkita Once in a store while my child was throwing a fit I smacked his ass. A man walked up to me to tell me that it was wrong to hit a child, so I kicked his ass. Child rearing is easy if you use the right methods.

I think you took cues on fathering from Chuck Norris.

Quote: Originally Posted by Que_66 My daughter threw a fit in the store 1 time. Yes, I said *1* time. My oldest daughter was sitting in the cart and the youngest decided to throw a fit because they were out of blue squeeze-its. She started jumping up and down and screaming. I'm standing there in heels and a 2 piece suit (skirt & jacket). I proceeded to jump up and down and throw a fit ---mimicking her movements---and screaming louder than her. People started peeking in from each end of the aisle. (It was a small store.) It didn't take long for my daughter to decide her fit was over and she scrambled back to the cart trying to hide from all the staring eyes. My only comment to her was something like "Until you can throw a fit better than I can - don't do it again." I received superior check-outs and customer service from that store for months after that happened. To this day my girls remember that incident and my youngest said she was going to do that to her daughter if she ever threw a fit in the store. LOLOLOL My girls are 20 & 21 and the grand baby is 2.5

I love it! Though I gotta be honest, I don't think it would be nearly as effective if I did that to my son.

Quote: Originally Posted by BigAkita Once in a store while my child was throwing a fit I smacked his ass. A man walked up to me to tell me that it was wrong to hit a child, so I kicked his ass. Child rearing is easy if you use the right methods.

This is what I hate about what our society has turned into. You can't even discipline a child without some nosy stranger getting in your business. You smacked his ass, which I am assuming that unless you launched him across the room, did no permanent damage. It's not like you clocked him in the head, threw him to the ground, or kicked him in the ribs. I mean c'mon people, why do you think kids have no respect for authority nowadays? It's because most of them never got a good ass whoopin when they were young.

When I was in 6th grade I had a urinary track infection that required me to take these sulfur pills that were the size of two nickels stacked, I couldn't swallow them. It drove my father crazy. One night he grabbed me, stuffed the pills in my mouth and slammed me into the kitchen wall until I swallowed them. Until the day I moved out of that house there was an indentation in that wall. If I did that today I would get hauled off to jail. Granted, it was in our own house, not public, but y'all get the idea.

See, the Big Dog knows where the kid clear CMOS switch is at... Seems like things have been going down hill for a long time. Heck, when I was a kid, my neighbors had my parents blessing to spank me, and then call them, so I would get spanked again when I got home! Made a kid, you know, kinda behave.

But I don't have kids, so can only speak from my experience.

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A classic!! Seen it a bunch of times and today my point stands to my mom and dad: I'm not getting married, End of story.