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To: discostu
Giving a 2 year old a snack can be a bad idea. It messes up mealtimes. 15 more minutes and you'll have lunch which the kid won't eat because you fed them crap to keep them quiet isn't something I ever did. A 2 year old isn't likely to sleep in WalMart. Removing the kid that won't quiet down when you have a cart full of groceries? Um. No.

You have to understand that children are not perfect and neither are parents. There are situations that just happen and cannot be controlled. You just get through it the best you can. Children cry. It's just life.

Understand that I am NOT talking about temper tantrums. That is a different subject. I have been addressing the problems of shopping with a 2 year old. You want a nightmare, shop with a 5 year old, a 2 and 3 year old because you forgot bread.

187 posted on 09/02/2009 10:59:47 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW

That’s where the parent has to think ahead. If you’re next to stops are the store and food and it’s almost meal time food first then store. Of course there’s also the magical device of the pacifier, makes kids think they’re getting food but they’re not. And maybe they’ll sleep or maybe they won’t, you can at least get them situated in a way that they’re likely to sleep.

If you have a full cart then no you probably shouldn’t remove the kid, but get to the checkout and finish up. The problem parents don’t have a full cart, they walk in with a crying kid and then go aisle by aisle making no attempt to fix the problem.

You have to understand that there ARE bad parent out there that do nothing about their crying kids. They really do exist. And they really do make people less tolerant of all kids, including the ones with good parents that try keep the kid quiet.


188 posted on 09/02/2009 11:06:47 AM PDT by discostu (When I'm walking a dark road I am a man who walks alone)
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