I've been lucky. My son was always well behaved in public. I remember one time when he was only 5 months old we were in a diner and he never even whimpered once for over an hour. I just sort of stood him up between me and the window and he watched the cars passing by on the highway. At one years and one month we spent a long day and evening at an antique tractor gathering, he cried out once, got fed and that was that. .....but by about three things began to change.....can we go now....can we go now....but he never was loud or allowed to run wild in a public place.
Parents that don't even try to control their kids are the ones I want to slap....not the kids.