PARENTS! please read this!
While I was working today there was a toddler screaming at the top of her lungs, It sounded like she was dying! I look around concerned, as do other people and I see a mom trying to get her toddler to listen to her. The mother then continued shopping while her daughter screamed, tried clothes on and even returned items, She let her child scream bloody murder for at least a half hour! it was ridiculous!!!
I have of course had a few days like this working in retail but I have never seen or heard anything like this before in my life it was rude.
So for all parents who just aren't sure how to handle a meltdown in the middle of a store here are a few tips on proper shopping edict when you are shopping with your kids.
*If your kids a screaming at the top of their lungs, throwing themselves down on the ground, kicking or hitting. LEAVE THE STORE!!!
-If you stay it is beyond rude. you are interrupting everyone in the store, you don't need anything THAT badly. leave and come back another time
* DO NOT let your kids run around the store.
* DO NOT let them climb on things.
* WATCH THEM
If you follow those simple steps then shopping won't be a headache for you and everyone around you.
* You should always have a talk with your kids before you go into any store, you need to tell them the correct way to act in a store, the consequences for not acting the way they should and a small reward if they act the right way.
- here is an example; My son is three we have had this talk before every store we go into and it goes like this:
"we are going to go into the store, so I need you to behave. You need to listen to me, no yelling and no tantrums. If you are good you get a little drink or treat but if you don't behave then we will leave without getting anything and you will go on a time out when we get home and I will go to the store later alone."
My son has only ever had one tantrum in a store because when he did we went home without getting anything, and he had a time out when we got home.
The key to making sure any talk with your kids work is to fallow through with what you say. If you tell your kids that you will leave with nothing and they will go on time out, you have to do it! if you don't then they wont listen to anything you say.
Shopping should be enjoyable for everyone! Please help keep your kids under control so you can have a pleasant shopping experience too.
Click HERE if you want to know more about temper tantrums.!
