My Own Son Threw A Show For All The DCP'S

[sahm2three]

Eeek. No. I am not sure if I just got lucky, but my kids would never dream of acting that way. The worst I get is the interrupting while I am talking to a daycare parent. We are working on that. I just make sure that I am teaching my kids respect, and if I don't get the respect I deserve, they will get a consequence. Be consistant and follow thru with your threats! Good luck!

[countrymom]

happens here too, I want to crawl into a hole of embarressement.

[Meyou]

OMG I swear I had no door for half of my teenage years. The memories! ::

My dd's are not allowed to come to the door when parents are here or interrupt if we're talking. If my 8 year old starts monkeying around (she loves to climb the walls for example) I quickly tell her to find something to do and give her the look.

I find it rude in general for children to interrupt adults so by enforcing that rule it helps enforce no being a dink in front of parents as well.

[MarinaVanessa]

My response to the parents would have been a sarcastic:
"Now I know why some animals eat their young" and then laughed it off.

Then I would have handled the situation with my child after they had all left. I tried the Nan method and I saw improvements right away. It still gets a little out of hand from time to time until I ask her to sit in the kitchen and wait for me. Once that happens she's good again for the next few weeks.

I do like Crystals idea too however I had planned to use that one once my kids were teen-agers.

[caligirl]

Have your own children done this too, and how did you deal with the embarassment?

Oh yes. Many, many times. They are all grown up now, but when my youngest was a child, I had to actually send him up the street to my girlfriends house when I had an interview.