If your 10 year old is throwing a tantrum...

[bkg]

in a Barnes and Noble... Screaming at the top of his lungs, pounding, etc...

Don't you think that maybe... just maybe, you should take his ass outside and beat him sensless rather than stand there like an idiot making hundreds of customers uncomforable?

I'm just curious.

(yes, I said "beat him senseless"... it's an expression. Get over it.)

[Flame]

Depends on the 10 yr old.  A "regular" kid, sure, but just maybe that kid has autism or something.   Sure, try to difuse the situation, or remove the child, but don't be too quick to judge.

[DefiantSix]

in a Barnes and Noble... Screaming at the top of his lungs, pounding, etc...

Don't you think that maybe... just maybe, you should take his ass outside and beat him sensless rather than stand there like an idiot making hundreds of customers uncomforable?

I'm just curious.

(yes, I said "beat him senseless"... it's an expression. Get over it.)

What you saw there was a fine example of a long track record of poor parenting on display.

My 5-year old knows better than to do stuff like that, because when he was 2 and 3 years old, pulling stunts like that would cause me or my wife to sling him over a shoulder, leave the cart/shopping basket there, and immediately walk calmly to the van, where my little boy's world would be reduced in size until it was no bigger than the distance between his nose and the nearest unoccupied corner.

Being "mean" to him at 2/3 vastly decreases the odds that he'll act like a 2-year old when he's 10.

[bkg]

Depends on the 10 yr old.  A "regular" kid, sure, but just maybe that kid has autism or something.   Sure, try to difuse the situation, or remove the child, but don't be too quick to judge.

Entirely possible, Autism.

Even then, have enough respect for your fellow shoppers to direct the child to a more appropriate location.

I'm all for freedom of speach and telling fellow shoppers to fawk off, but I'm also for common courtesy.

[bkg]

What you saw there was a fine example of a long track record of poor parenting on display.

My 5-year old knows better than to do stuff like that, because when he was 2 and 3 years old, pulling stunts like that would cause me or my wife to sling him over a shoulder, leave the cart/shopping basket there, and immediately walk calmly to the van, where my little boy's world would be reduced in size until it was no bigger than the distance between his nose and the nearest unoccupied corner.

Being "mean" to him at 2/3 vastly decreases the odds that he'll act like a 2-year old when he's 10.

  Good parenting, IMHO.

[littlelamb]

My kids know better than to throw a huge fit in a store we will leave and when we do it will not be pretty

[Oceander]

in a Barnes and Noble... Screaming at the top of his lungs, pounding, etc...

Don't you think that maybe... just maybe, you should take his ass outside and beat him sensless rather than stand there like an idiot making hundreds of customers uncomforable?

I'm just curious.

(yes, I said "beat him senseless"... it's an expression. Get over it.)

Happened to me, once, with my daughter when she was a 3 y.o.  She went over the shoulder like a sack of potatoes - without any of the things she was screaming about, not even the one thing I had already agree to buy - and we went home.  She now listens, and we have very few temper tantrums, particularly in public, and she listens very, very carefully when I ask if she wants me to "throw her over my shoulders like a sack of potatoes."

Making sure that you build up a good, solid, standard level of discipline when they're 2 or 3 will start paying you dividends so rich you won't believe it, even when they're only 5 or 6.