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- From: bweiss@cs.arizona.edu (Beth Weiss)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Responding to Tantrums
- Message-ID: <27001@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 05:06:08 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.arizona.edu
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- Jordan and I had dinner at my mother's tonight (adults had pizza;
- Jordan had mom-milk), and we started talking about tantrums.
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- My mother firmly believes that if your child has a tantrum, you should
- immediately remove said child from a public place. "You don't have
- the right to subject me to your child's poor behavior."
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- Obviously, Mom has had tantrum-age children, and I have not (yet :-).
- However, I can't help but think that removing a child from a store
- when the child throws a tantrum might be exactly what the child
- _wants_ and therefore, exactly what a parent shouldn't do.
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- So, for discussion: are there times when letting a child throw a
- tantrum in K-Mart is best for the child?
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- How do I deal with my mother, who knows everything there is to know
- about child rearing (except she did a lousy job with all four of us)
- without getting on the floor and throwing a tantrum myself?
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- --
- --Beth Weiss
- bweiss@cs.arizona.edu
-