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Of course I have. However, having been a parent for quite a few years now I have a bit more empathy for people who might be having a bad day or week. As I said in an earlier post, the Feingold Diet saved us from some behavior issues that really might have destroyed my family and me. Google Feingold if you are interested.

I don't really know what strangers are going through when I have my moment of contact with them at the store or wherever. I don't feel it is my right to go through life without being inconvenienced. On my better days, at least :}

JILL

well i guess we differ in our views. sure anyone can have a bad day and kids are going to misbehave now and again, but there is an epidemic, in our culture, of parents who fail to parent, who give their children decisionmaking power that they have no business having, and the result is a society of little monsters, who will grow up to be self centered big monsters. teachers will tell you. and i do think that even a casual bystander to a temper tantrum by a child, seeing how the parent responds, probably is able to tell pretty accurately which of the two is in charge in that situation.

yes, diet can be an issue, but that is not going to be a cure-all, if the parents cede control to their child.

my oldest is 17, and while not a child any longer herself, is able to look at one of these out or control situations and roll her eyes and say, some chance you'd have let US carry on like that.