[ShowMeMom]

Oh for pete's sake. Have you ever had a four year old??? Or maybe the question should be, Have you ever had a four year old without a lobotomy?

[keats5]

I agree. I've had three four year olds over the years, and although I'm no slouch at discipline, they do act like kids at the most inappropriate times. Although we'd all love our kids to stand still for long political speeches, they simply don't have it in them at that age. There's a reason kindergarten doesn't start until kids turn five.

If the mom tried to restrain her son, folks would be yelling about how repressive she was. It really is a no win situation when your on stage for the whole world to see. This incident (if one could even call it that) hardly represents the way those children are raised in more natural circumstances.

[Shawndell Green]

"Have you ever had a four year old??? "

I have had a four year old. I have been a four year old. I have seen plenty of them run wild when their mother's are too weak willed to draw the line and the father was absent. I have also seen plenty of four year olds who behave themselves in public. We attend Mass at a conservative Catholic church where Mass is still said in Latin. Needless to say, there are lots of families with more than ten kids. In the serious, conservative, families, all the children are well-behaved, polite, and respectful of adults. The did not get that way by accident. They were raised that way.