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I have to somewhat agree with this. I had to witness the most outrageous children a few months back. My husband invited some friends and their kids to go to Disneyland with us. They had this wonderful idea to carpool all in my vehicle...Stinks when you have a really big vehicle, everyone expects you to drive them around....
Anyway. These children ages 3 and 5 would hit, slap their parents in the face, sock them, curse at them, spit on them, kick them and often would team up on their parents. At one point it was so out of control in the car on the ride home that I decided to step in and tell the 5 year old that she would not scream in the car or we would pull over and she would have to get out. In return she spit on me and then proceeded to pull my hair. The parents always reacted, but they tried to react with words and it just was not working. In the end, nothing happened. THe parents got upset at me for trying to do something when they weren't and I asked for the parents to move her carseat to the back row so that I did not have to continue to be the victim of getting hit or spit on. I was blown away the parents did nothing..
I don't believe in hitting a child and then telling them that it's wrong to hit, but what do you do when children are this out of control? What consequence do you give them? Time out does not work and words just made it worse.
Honestly, if they were my children and they ever tried that I would have pulled over the car, spanked them and made them sit there until they could control their behavior and then apologies to every person in the car.... I would be so embarrassed if my child ever acted out like that anywhere or to anyone...
I have to somewhat agree with this. I had to witness the most outrageous children a few months back. My husband invited some friends and their kids to go to Disneyland with us. They had this wonderful idea to carpool all in my vehicle...Stinks when you have a really big vehicle, everyone expects you to drive them around....
Anyway. These children ages 3 and 5 would hit, slap their parents in the face, sock them, curse at them, spit on them, kick them and often would team up on their parents. At one point it was so out of control in the car on the ride home that I decided to step in and tell the 5 year old that she would not scream in the car or we would pull over and she would have to get out. In return she spit on me and then proceeded to pull my hair. The parents always reacted, but they tried to react with words and it just was not working. In the end, nothing happened. THe parents got upset at me for trying to do something when they weren't and I asked for the parents to move her carseat to the back row so that I did not have to continue to be the victim of getting hit or spit on. I was blown away the parents did nothing..
I don't believe in hitting a child and then telling them that it's wrong to hit, but what do you do when children are this out of control? What consequence do you give them? Time out does not work and words just made it worse.
Honestly, if they were my children and they ever tried that I would have pulled over the car, spanked them and made them sit there until they could control their behavior and then apologies to every person in the car.... I would be so embarrassed if my child ever acted out like that anywhere or to anyone...
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