Kath2003 said:I gotta say that I'm not a parent, but I have NO problems with parents disciplining their kids in public. My parents, however, had a much more simple method: you got three warnings. 1. "Please stop this NOW." 2. "Stop this now, or you will come and sit in the car with me." 3. "Right, you cannot behave, so we are going to sit in the car for an hour". They literally took us to the car (or, if we were in WDW and it was too hot to sit in the car, a boring bench somewhere in the shade outside of the park). They left the other siblings with the other parent and rejoined them an hour later. IMO this is the most effective way of dealing with a child who simply is misbehaving (if they are tired obviously this is different).
The number of people who continually warn their kids to behave but never actually DO anything about it in WDW is quite shocking. Yes, it's your vacation, but I wouldn't want to spend the whole day constantly telling off a misbehaving child. Take them away from the fun, make them appreciate what they had in the park and reflect on their behaviour and then go back in.
I do this with the kids I babysit for. If they cannot play the game nicely, they can come and sit on the stairs with me whilst everyone else plays. If they cannot join in with the bedtime story nicely, they get put to bed and then I go back and read to the other children etc. If they don't want to behave out in public, they can come and sit on the park bench with me while the other kids play. I used to do "community service" at college where I did homeroom with 30 6th graders for 20 minutes each morning. The most effective form of discipline (detention as a threat never worked) was making them come sit at the desk with me. If they couldn't behave when they were sat at the desk still (yes, they pushed it), they had to hold my hand throughout homeroomIt worked so well - I don't think ANY kid ever held my hand twice!
That's just my two cents: I'm shocked by the people who continually say "NO lil Jimmy don't do that!" but then never follow up the warning with anything. They've FAR more patience than me!
we don't need to hear your opinions on parenting. drop it. its over. PERIOD.
pixiedust23 said:
LOVE LIVE THE SHOCKING MOMENTS!!!!
Rudegrle said:
cornflkgrl said:In that mother's defense I would like to say that perhaps they were in the middle of potty training that child and did not want to derail the training by telling him to ignore his urge to urinate or by telling him to "use" the diaper/pullups he had on and have an "accident," further confusing him about using the potty. Just a guess.
EDITED TO ADD: I say this because we went in that show and the line was about 3 miles long and wraps all over the place and if you had a little one that urgently needed to go it would be very difficult to get out of there very quickly at all. I even got claustrophobic inside that darn tree!
a*lil*bit*goofy said:spanking:
now. anyone else have a shock? Here is one: it hasnt' happened to me but hey, I am trying to lighten the mood and get back on topic.
Has anyone had a character sign the name 'wrong' ie maybe Alice was Aurora earlier in the day and 'forgot' to switch the signatures! or maybe someone was distracted and out of character? now THAT would be shocking! LOL
Goobergal99 said:Ok guys I have one.
On our last trip to Disney my DH and I brought his sister along with us because she has always been such a big help and loves our daughter to pieces. So she really wanted to try TOT being it was her first trip. I went along with her the first time but she wanted to ride once more as there was barely a line, but I wasn't up for it again (I had just ate for petes sake) So, she asked my DH but he was feeling a lil queasy as well and gets sick to his stomach kind of easily. So DH, me and DD waited inside the gift shop on the benches right around the corner from the ride exit for her to come off. All of a sudden we see this mother (had to be in her mid to late 30's at least, this will be important later in the story) dragging her kid to the bench next to us, yelling expletives at the kid for not wanting to ride. Here is how it goes so some of you can imagine our horror.
Mother: "you little "expletive" I can't believe you would act like that over a "expletive" ride, it aint any more scary then our street at homenow joey and daddy have to ride all by themselves.
So the lil girl is in tears, poor thing and then the mother smacks her
So now my DH is getting really upset and turns to woman and gives her the nastiest look ever, my poor DD was staring in awe and I am just trying to stop myself from knocking this chick out.
So then this woman turns to my DH and says, "What the expletive are you looking at, if you had been better disciplined you may not have knocked her up (pointing to me) and ended up with a baby before you learned how to properly wipe your behind.
It took every ounce of me not to beat this woman and DH knew it and so did the guy standing next to us, as he was shaking his head.
My response was a nice calm, passive agressive smile and a loud response in my DD's direction. "Sweety, one day you too will be upset at all the tax money being withdrawn from your checks because Miss uneducated over here wanted to go to Disney, but didn't have the manners, nor intellect to fund the trip herself" Now I turn to DH and respond
"Ahh, just think honey if it weren't for all the ppl who take advantage of the welfare system, we might have stayed at the POLY"
The woman finally got up and walked away, but I have to admit I felt so horrible for her DD, that I contemplated kidnapping her and taking her home with me. Some ppl are just beyond comprehension aren't they?
It was a joke. I don't really know or care whether you have kids or not. I know this thread has been open for a long time, and it has survived many other "off-topic" discussions about what people have been shocked by. It was being discussed respectfully and calmly, until your post.pixiedust23 said:
thptrek said:
Can u imagine?!?! bwahahahhaha
LuluLovesDisney said:Mickey signed his name "Micky".
thptrek said:
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