Parenting: you’re doing it wrong, tale #85992592968290

/ hsoi

Dear Parent of the whiny child at the music store last night:

When your husband went into the cymbal room and the door closed behind him, then myself and the clerk heard this shriek of a small child, we both wheeled around thinking the child got its fingers caught in the closing door.

That was not the case. No… the child was just upset that it wasn’t allowed to go into the cymbal room. Sure, you tried to explain to the 2-3 year old that it was in their best interest to not go into that room, and for their sensitive ears that’s a good decision.

If you had stuck to your guns, if you had remained the parent — you know, the one in control of the situation — things would have been better.

Alas, you did as too many “parents” today do, you gave into the child. In fact, you said something like “Well, if you’re just going to keep whining about it, then ok, you can go in.” And proceeded to open the door for the child and let her/him into the cymbal room.

And now the child knows… if I am not getting what I want, whine and cry, pitch a fit, and eventually they will give in. It doesn’t matter if the thing is bad for me or not, and chances are I, being a small child, don’t know that it’s bad for me… but my “parents” will give it to me anyways.

*sigh*

 

5 thoughts on “Parenting: you’re doing it wrong, tale #85992592968290”

  1. Husband and I were just discussing something similer…..after a news thing about how the local middle school NEEDED its cops back cause the kids were SO violent the first week of school cause the cops weren’t there cause of budget cuts, and how if the cops had been there it would have made all the difference!!!!!1111!!!!

    Yah.

      • Yah, I had to check with him as to if my memory was correct (ok, we went to drastically different school systems, but still), and I can think of all of once in my entire school career that the cops had to be called to the school because of a student (not counting college….), and he agreed. He also agreed that just having had the cops on hand last week wouldn’t have made any difference in whether or not the kids in question had brought the knives or not. But they were so SURE on the news report that it would have.

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