Leaving a store

I do the same thing, out of respect for the employees of the store, and the other shoppers. If my son starts screaming or crying I leave with him. If I am shopping with someone else I will tell them to keep shopping and I will wait outside with him, or go back in if he calms down. I'm lucky though, he doesn't have meltdowns while shopping. Usually just at home when I won't let him do something he wants to do.

Well nowadays you dare not even spank your child because it would be called abuse, but back when I was little if any of my siblings & I threw a fit my Mom would set her items aside, take us outside the store where she would then spank us good. Then when we got home we were punished for however long she thought is fitting. But like I said nowadays parents can't even spank their child if they wanted to. Still punishment seems effective. Take away something she likes for a few hours & I bet she would think twice before throwing another fit like that again the next time you have to go to the store.

hi asyria when my son was little I had read an article by a child psychiatrist who said the terrible twos tantrums come from them getting too much information into their little brains and not being able to understand. so he said grab the kicking screaming child, force her or him to be quiet in your arms and nine out of ten children will not only stop screaming but fall asleep.'I never really got a chance to try that. our son threw a temper tantrum ]once and lie down and kicked his feet on the ground and screamed.My husband nodded to me then threw himself on the floor and kicked and screamed: I want cookies, I want them now. I want them now." Our son sat up and his eyes grew big and he quit screaming. He looked at my husband like he did not even know him.that was his one and only temper tantrum. I still laugh about that day,widowed as I am.

usually when a child cries she needs something it could be hunger, a sore tummy, a sore bummy or tired if cry does not work then temper can result, like someone doesn't care and so we scream and have a big fight something adults do i don't know this is all seems so simple and yet it seems so right cry little baby love little baby and mom needs a little hug too [em]hugs[/em God Bless ... and let the folks in the store spend their money :-)