If the mom was a liberal pol she would... (add your reply)
If the mom was a liberal pol she would have said “Wait until your dads get home” or “I should have aborted you just like your other six brothers and sisters”
It’s time to treat Obozo like the mother handled her toddler.
“He threw a tantrum. She ignored him”
If Trump wins the Republican nomination, this could be a headline for a news report about a Trump vs Clinton debate.
I quit reading when the stupid author said the woman was infested withcjildren
There is a mom who had decided that while she will let her children be children, she isn’t raising children... she is raising full functioning adults.
Age 3, 13, 23 is all the same. Then it’s the spouse at age 33, 43, 53.... I want a cookie! Whaaaaaaaaa, you’re so meeeeeeeeean!
Timely post. I just finished a comparable chapter on dealing with tantrum adults in the must-read book “The Gift Of Fear”.
“Infested”
I saw a woman leaving the YMCA recently with a baby strapped to her chest. She had a second, slightly larger baby in a stroller. And she had a tantrum-throwing three-year-old holding her hand. She was infested with small children. I couldn't help but stare...
My oldest daughter is right there now. 3 kids, 5 and under. We were there 30 years ago.
It's worth it.
My daughter threw a laying on the floor, kicking, screaming tantrum ONCE when she was a toddler. A good, swift spank ended it and she didn’t try it again.
One more thought - The key to ignoring kids (and politicians) acting out is to first assure compliance. The 3 year old was trying to engage verbally, but is otherwise noted as complying - having no choice, most likely, but complying with the requirement to move from the store to the car.
Ignoring the imploring voice to get into a debate is one thing, but the republicans in washington try to get us to engage verbally (with “show votes” on defunding Obamacare, for example) while being spectacularly non-compliant (by funding Obamacare for 2 years in the omnibus just passed).
...demand that the bystanders pay the child cash to stop him from whining.
My wife and I raised six children all very close in age except for the last one...he was an -gift- eight years later!
The idea that my three year old child would conduct an argument with me in a public place would not register in my brain or theirs...
That simply was not allowed to happen...
We did it though training and godly discipline...
Throwing a temper tantrum is a form of passive rebellion, basically a child telling you I'm going to make your life miserable until I got what I want and be in control...
Child are not the center of the universe, the faster they are taught that the better behaved they are...
“She was infested with small children.”
Children are a blessing, NOT a disease!
I’m tired of media presenting children as a nuisance and a burden just because selfish adults put themselves first.
In the early 90s I knew this woman (my boyfriend’s sister) who was at a supermarket with her 2 boys, when one of them had a tantrum because she wouldn’t let him get something. She warned that if he kept up his behavior, they would leave the store. He kept it up, she took the two of them out of the store.
He then refused to get in the car, having a complete meltdown. She swatted his behind once and managed to get him in the car, as he screamed bloody murder.
Within a few days, she and her husband were visited by Child Protective Services. Apparently, someone saw her “viciously attack” her child, took down her license plate and reported her. That family went through three months of hell with CPS.
My mom would never have let it get that far. We got taken out to the car the first time, and knew better than to try throwing a tantrum again.
I’ve always believed that there is a duality about children.
On the one hand they have the quality of child-likeness, which Jesus Himself said was “of the kingdom of heaven.” This must be lovingly tended and nurtured.
On the other hand they have the quality of childishness; a rebellious, selfish quality which is an expression of the child’s fallen nature that he inherited from his parents, a nature that must be combated and conquered by any loving parent, lest left undealt with, it cost the child his chance at any decent earthly life, or even his eternal soul.
By the way, I’m the father of nine - three of whom are decent, independent, upstanding, responsible adults, and six more who will someday also be that, I trust.