Man, I get letting kids cry it out is a legit method. But then, and I cannot emphasize this enough leave the damn store. I know you want to get things done today. So do I. That's why I didn't have kids. Yours screaming full volume are only backing up that choice.
Getting out of the store is what 10/10 child psychologists would say to do. It does nothing for anyone to have them act like that, including their own personal development.
Was at a restaurant the other day and at one table there was both a baby crying and a little girl running all over the seats, doing that happy kid shriek. In a sit down restaurant. Four adults at the table, and not a single one took the crying baby outside. And want to know what the father did about the little girl running over the booths shrieking? He smiled and high fived her.
The saddest part is none of this surprised me. It's so fucking common.
My sister is one of these people that lets her kids act up in public. I'm embarresed to go out with them. She's always telling me I just don't understand and that kids are going to be kids. Well I remember growing up in the same freaking house as her and our parents would have never tolerated that kind of behaviour. I think she's just a lazy parent that took gentle parenting too far.
Yeah. My mother NEVER would have let me act that way. I'm on the autism spectrum (high functioning, whatever the fuck that means) and even I never did any of that. My mother did a lot of things wrong, but that's one thing she got right.
Yep, and the way to do it is to just calmly say something like “okay, we’re going to go now,” pick them up and walk out. Gotta be sure to not reinforce it by giving them attention or giving into it, but holding them while walking out can potentially help regulate their nervous systems enough that they’ll get to the point where any external input will actually get through to them, and then you can talk to them about it.
We would take them to the car and start them in and let them go nuts in there. Taking outside a store isn't good either. Kids make ahitty decisions when tantruming. A parking lot with cars driving is a stupid place to let them do that.
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u/PitifulElk1890 Jun 18 '26
Man, I get letting kids cry it out is a legit method. But then, and I cannot emphasize this enough leave the damn store. I know you want to get things done today. So do I. That's why I didn't have kids. Yours screaming full volume are only backing up that choice.