oh i see, you are new to parenting. well for starters, at that age you don't take them to the same sorts of places that you can when they are bigger and able to behave. My husband and i took turns taking our kids to church when they were that age, so that they would not disrupt the people around us. it is a mistake to believe that failure to behave is a manifestation of personality. don't buy into that. of course you can't discipline a one year old, but you can control where she goes and when bigger you can teach them where it is appropriate to be quiet. my kids are now 11, 14 and 17 and we have always gotten compliments on their behavior at restaurants and other places. and they sure as heck know bratty behavior when they see it exhibited by other kids. your child is a baby at 1 year old. don't confuse that with what we are talking about.
After reading a story like this, I have a hard time judging a parent that doesn't act like everyone thinks they should.
Jury Convicts Mom In Chili Powder Death Trial
Irving Mother To Spend Up To 7 Years In Prison
POSTED: 5:27 pm CST November 10, 2005
UPDATED: 8:28 am CST November 14, 2005
DALLAS -- An Irving mother will spend up to seven years in prison for killing her baby daughter.
On Sunday morning, jurors convicted Angela DiSabella of manslaughter instead of capital murder.
DiSabella was on trial for suffocating to death her baby daughter, Kira DiSabella, with chili powder paste. She took the stand Thursday in her own defense.
DiSabella, who said she used the paste as a preventive for thumb sucking, said in court Thursday that her aunt told her to use chili to keep the infant from sucking her thumbs. DiSabella said she interpreted that to mean chili powder.
She said that she coated the infant's thumb with a paste of chili powder mixed with water about six times in one hour.
DiSabella said the baby was not crying, and that she thought the chili powder was working.
She told the prosecution that she did not think she was using an excessive amount of paste.
"I didn't think she was breathing it … I just didn't sit there and think, 'Hmm, I wonder where this (chili powder paste) is going. What it she doing with it?'" DiSabella said.
Paramedics who arrived at the scene after the child had stopped breathing said the chili powder had blocked the girl's air passages.
An attending physician at the hospital to which the girl was taken worked for about 30 minutes to revive the baby before pronouncing her dead.
The doctor told police he believed the child died before arriving at the hospital.
Prosecutors say the baby's father will also face charges, but aren't yet saying what they might be.
Oh, my bad, I thought this article was talking about toddlers and what not. I didn't know that 17 year olds still use the term "indoor voices".
My 4 year old son behaves, but sometimes can be unruly as most toddlers and young children can be.
But I digress because apparently I misread the article and we're suppose to be talking about teens.