Children ‘Screaming’ in Stores

Bee said:
I still believe that Robusta was joking albeit a sick joke but a joke none the less.

In the thread that he started ( in which he explained why he posted what he did ) he also stated he had received some vile pm's, I wonder if the people that sent them was banned also when he was banned.

It is so easy to gossip about someone that is no longer a member here to defend themselves....in my opinion that comes under bad forum etiquette.
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I am sorry you view this as gossip. From my perspective, any potential child abuser is an important subject of conversation. He certainly had ample opportunity to defend himself while he was here, but chose instead to be abusive to sf posters. I have no knowledge of any possible negative pm which he may have received.
 

NO I am not gossiping about Robusta in the way that you are..I suggest you go back and read reply no. 36......not that it will make any difference to you because you have already made your mind up.

Time for me to take another break from this forum.
 
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Bee said:
NO I am not gossiping about Robusta in the way that you are..I suggest you go back and read reply no. 36......not that it will make any difference to you because you have already made your mind up.

Time for me to take another break from this forum.
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Bee, is this addressed to me or Keesha?
 

Keesha...........that is my final word on this as I said time for me to take another break from this forum.
 
Robusta said:
Keesha, you can kiss my lily white ass. You "know" me from a few posts on a forum board?

Anyone who thinks that myself or anyone would come out in public bragging about child abuse does not rank especially high in the intelligence department. I have three children five grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Never have I used any method of corporal punishment on them. I find sitting them is a chair and long boring lecture will suffice.

I guess that some people want the world to be so evil, that instead of thinking a bit,they take every character typed as gospel.

I made this SATIRICAL POST because every poster without exception accused the parents of an upset Kid of bad or neglectful parenting. Not a one of you considered that the kid may be sick, that the parent needed food in the house had worked a ten hour day,gotten the older kids off the school bus, or any of a million human travails that parent may be experiencing!

Oh no as long as your private quiet little shopping spree is not compromised by another human,all is fine.

Nice empathy folks!
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YES Bee. I DID read this. This is where he states that not one of us considered that the kid may be sick or that the parent needed food in the house and had worked a ten hour day, had gotten the older kids off on the bus already or any of the million other travails that parent might be experiencing!!!

So this post would have been a PERFECT opportunity to say he was merely being sarcastic but NO, he chose to make a list of all his justifications for doing what he did.

WHY would he write a LIST of these reasons if IT WASN’T TRUE?

OR maybe all these justifications were fabricated also.
 
Keesha said:
YES Bee. I DID read this. This is where he states that not one of us considered that the kid may be sick or that the parent needed food in the house and had worked a ten hour day, had gotten the older kids off on the bus already or any of the million other travails that parent might be experiencing!!!

So this post would have been a PERFECT opportunity to say he was merely being sarcastic but NO, he chose to make a list of all his justifications for doing what he did.

WHY would he write a LIST of these reasons if IT WASN’T TRUE?

OR maybe all these justifications were fabricated also.
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I think Bee gone
 
Keesha said:
How do you feel while you are out shopping and someone has a child in a shopping cart that won’t stop ‘screaming’ ( crying very loudly) and the mother just keeps pushing the cart like nothing is wrong, ignoring the child altogether?
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I laid it out clearly for each of my kids when they reached the age/stage to understand. I told them, if you want to go out with mommy and do things with her, you will behave, if you want to be naughty and not listen and whine and cry when you can't have something or your own way, you'll find yourself at home with a babysitter.
 
I generally don't like it and get rather annoyed, but I don't know what's happening in that person's life so my brief encounter with them might be completely out of context. I avoid them as much as possible and move on.

However it's much worse when the child is screaming and the parent, parents or other guardians are yelling back at the child and or emotionally abusing them or worse yet hurting the child. I'd much rather have the guardian ignoring the child than doing any of the above.
 
Keesha said:
So your child was in pain from having problem ears , cried in public and your solution was to belt her across the face?
And you’re proud of yourself?

I feel like slapping you myself right now but I’m too much of a lady to do so.
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I doubt it's anything but a tall tale.
 
Actually, I feel for the child because he's either hungry or exhausted from being dragged from store to store. At least that's the case here where I reside.

I will never forget one incident where it was quite visible that the mother was abusing the child right in front of me. I didn't know what to do as my heart broke to see the child in pain. I went up to the manager to report it and left the store. I hate to see children being abused.
 
CindyLouWho said:
This just happened to me last Friday at the dentist. My ears have not recovered from this boy screaming on & on & on. Instead of the mother taking him out, this girl who worked at the front desk comes out in the waiting room with a bag full of toys and let's him pick one out to keep.
I don't agree, he has to be taught to not act out without always getting a reward if he doesn't act out.
He was probably 7 or 8 yrs old. He stopped screaming when he got the toy, then attempted to keep screaming. He was just turning it on and off.
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You expect screaming tantrums from a two year old, but not from one this age. What sort of adult will he become?
 
hearlady said:
Thanks, I do quietly ask the parent if their child can have a sticker and if yes, I place it without a word. It's something so unexpected it throws them off....at least for a little while. Sometimes if the sticker is a smiling cartoon character I tell them not cry or you'll make Mickey mouse (or whoever) cry. That seems to work too.
I shop in an Air Force commissary. I see lots of spouses of deployed servicemen who are stressed, without family around and are dealing alone with small children.
I have been there myself and some understanding goes a long way.
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What is a sticker?
 
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Well, of course that's what I thought a sticker was, but when someone asks a mom if her child could have a sticker, I began to wonder. First of all how do you give the child the sticker? One lady here puts it on the cart to distract the child which makes sense, but one would hardly seem sufficient to keep the youngster occupied for long. At any rate, it it works then by all means use this method. Certainly seems harmless enough.
 
it was called discipline in my day, if we misbehaved ..........a slap across the back of the legs
But now it’s called child abuse......😏
No wonder kids are the way they are today !,!🧐
 
charry said:
it was called discipline in my day, if we misbehaved ..........a slap across the back of the legs
But now it’s called child abuse......😏
No wonder kids are the way they are today !,!🧐
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Yes. It is a shame. Unfortunately though, there are those who take disciplining their children, to a whole other level which IS considered child abuse.
 

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