How about suggestions for a 15 m.o. who HATES the car and car seat and cries on even a five minute drive?
Wow, scenery to keep you entertained! Such a forgotten thing.
As a child, my most imaginative moments were staring out the window on long car drives. I would create all kinds of things in my mind about what I was looking at....wonder why certain things were built the way they were, etc etc etc.
Wow, scenery to keep you entertained! Such a forgotten thing.
As a child, my most imaginative moments were staring out the window on long car drives. I would create all kinds of things in my mind about what I was looking at....wonder why certain things were built the way they were, etc etc etc.
Why are you only replying to people who agree with you?
If you're going to post holier-than-thou opinions, and make sweeping generalizations about people and the tools they use within their own families, you have to have known you were going to get dissenting opinions. And then when other posters (myself included) have asked sincerely, what you would suggest in specific situations, you simply ignore us, and move on to the next post that agrees with you?
I guess you were just trying to stir the pot, and nothing more.
Because I didn't come here to FIGHT. I started this thread not finger pointing at anyone specifically....but then everyone who felt personally offended began targeting me....personally. And other people feel the need to explain WHY they use them because of challenged children, etc....which is fine, even though I wasnt targeting them. I safely ignore those people (which is proper msg board etiquette), and continue the conversation where I think i have something productive to say.
No wait a minute. Lots of parents manage to make multiple children behave in restuarants, my own included. My brother and I were less than 2 years apart and squabbling was a part of life but we did NOT cut up in restaurants. Okay, we did ONCE. Suddenly we were in the car with mom, dad got their orders to go, we went home and had peanut butter and did not get taken out for 6 months. We never did *that* again, lemme tell you.
Point being, "oh we have more than one" does not excuse poor behavior in public. Even when there were three of us no nonsense was allowed where it would bug other people.
No wait a minute. Lots of parents manage to make multiple children behave in restuarants, my own included. My brother and I were less than 2 years apart and squabbling was a part of life but we did NOT cut up in restaurants. Okay, we did ONCE. Suddenly we were in the car with mom, dad got their orders to go, we went home and had peanut butter and did not get taken out for 6 months. We never did *that* again, lemme tell you.
Point being, "oh we have more than one" does not excuse poor behavior in public. Even when there were three of us no nonsense was allowed where it would bug other people.
Totally agree - no excuse for bad behavior, well, let me amend that - no excuse for not being punished for bad behavior (because it will happen - that's why we discipline, to 'teach' it not to happen) - no matter if you are at a restaurant with one or one hundred. All I was trying to say was that it is a totally different scenario when there is more than one - a lot more work involved (obviously, depending on the children, but in general) - so that this might also be the type of parent who chooses to use a convenience device where a parent of a single might not even imagine it is necessary - because it is a much easier job to keep a child entertained and not too fussy and not too 'are we there YEEEEEEETTTTT??' (thereby ruining the start and end of everyone in the family's vacation) than it is to keep multiple children. Same thing at a restaurant - When I have 1 of mine - MAN is it EASY!!!
How about suggestions for a 15 m.o. who HATES the car and car seat and cries on even a five minute drive?
However, I see people like my cousin who as soon as the kids get into their Odyssey DEMAND the DVD player be turned on and get their way, I get annoyed. I see tons of people just driving around town using them. When we drive around town I ask DS what he sees out the window and try to keep him engaged that way or we sing, etc...
They only serve as a way to "shut the kids up",
and the undermine the family time that you get to spend together. Mostly they're used in cars, which these days of
double-income families,
is one of the precious little time that parents get to spend with their kids.
Hey now!!! Cut me some slack. there's times when I have a lot of down-time at work.
This is much more interesting than a few dozen repeats of threads on PhotoPass, whether you can use an extra ticket-day to park-hop, and what kind of shoes to bring to WDW.
I don't particularly care who uses what device to entertain their child but I do find it funny that ppl don't seem to agknowledge that even just a few years ago ppl managed to do all the things we do today w/o the assistance of electronics to entertain or calm the children.