Hey there, haven't you noticed your kid is screaming?!

Some children have a reason for screaming other than to get their own way.Alot of parents have to cope on their own and alot of those parents just want to do the shopping and get back the only problem is they do not have anyone to look after their child while they do the shopping.Unlike me my son suffers with a medical problem just like adhd there for he can kick off at any time for no reason,so do that child need to stay at home and be secluded from the outside world.Not always a so called tantrum so what do you suggest for my son then a gag or what?

Hey whywiki! Nice to see you! And I soooooo do agree with you! Here where I live it is the same! The parents don't seem to pay any attention when their kids throw a temper tantrum either! They think that it's ok to let their child annoy the entire store full of people! This has happened to me so many times when I am shopping I can't even tell you! I guess they feel that if they just ignore them then so should you! Well, not in my book! When we were kids we didn't get away with with it and I just don't think that it's fair to make us suffer because THEIR kid feels like screaming!

So the spoiled brat crying and now the mother get the blamed. Why should she take the child outside and go back to finished her shopping when she know that it is something that child want her to purchase and she is not going to do it. You are just like this child crying for something that your mother cannot afford. You are no different. I dislike this attitude in children, one should not go anyway with their parents and covet things. These kids grow to be the same way as adult. My eldest sister was just like you anyway she goes with mama as a child she wants even when mama warned her from before leaving the house that she doesn't have enough money and so she should not do her antics. She is the same as an adult. Children should be understanding no matter what age they are. I agree with the mother continue to do her shopping and ignore him/her. It is because slapping a child is a crime now maybe if it was not so this mother would have done the proper thing and give him two slap.

I hate that myself, and I have two kids one still in the toddler stage. I hate the fact that other parents don't respond to their child. Take the child to the bathroom or car. Let the kid get it out of their system. If they are hungry or thirsty, you should have packed a flippin snack. I hate when parents take their child to the store at nap time. Most kids nap around 11 or 2 depending on their age. I think the parents should be able to figure out their kids nap schedule and work around it. Some parents are just ridiculous. Sorry your kid inconveniences you. whywiki, you have every right to be annoyed. I totally hate that. I feel bad for the people that work in the store and they can't leave. LOL Shoppers can escape.

I agree with you. Oh do I thank god my girls never gave me a temper tantrum in public. She should have taken the child out of the store to calm him down. How inconsiderate she was to the other shoppers. I can't believe that the store management didn't say something to the mom.

I definitely agree with you. I work at Kmart and there are lots of kids that come in with their parents and scream and throw fits. I always hate it when the parents just stand there and let their kids scream without doing anything to calm the kid down or anything. It disrupts everyone else in the store and it's pretty rude.

If I tried that crap when I was a kid, my mother would have dragged mt out of the store, taken me home, and it would have been my fault that we dind't have grocceries for dinner that night, because she could not carry a screaming child around the supermarket. We leraned at a very early age not to scream in public places.

When you're a parent, your damned if you do and your damned if you don't. You either risk getting the dirty looks from the people around because your kid is making a scene. Or you whoop your kid and get the appalled looks of the other folks. OR you risk being arrested for child abuse...or...you go home and go without the groceries that you needed to get, don't cook dinner and THEN you have to listen to your HUSBAND (who has NO CLUE what it's like to spend all day with a toddler) pitch a just as obnoxious FIT because dinner wasn't ready when he got home from work. When I hear kids pitching a fit and see other mom's trying to deal with it...I say to myself "thank God it's not me this time".

I don't exactly have time on my hands, and I don't want to have to leave the grocery store just because one of my children are tired or cranky. If we had to live our lives around our children's attitudes, we'd never get anything accomplished! You have no idea what might have been going on with that mother and child. How do you know that child was a brat? My kids are all very well behaved, but even they have moments where they act up and scream and cry and carry on, because they're kids. That doesn't make them a brat! It makes them a child! No I don't think it's rude that the mom let her child cry in the store. It's better than giving the child whatever it wants in order to quiet it!

It depends on the situation - some kids scream and then when they get the attention of the parent they will know it then works everytime - I persoanlly hate having to listen to a kid scream but, if I was a parent I would do the ignoring thing as then they can't get what thye want by screaming and will learn eventually. It is probably quite hard for parents to decided which way is best until they have tried all options and see find out which method of discipline works best on their kid! x

The kid maybe suffering from some kind of illness or autism. Some kids are not normal, this maybe hard to understand by others. But I agree no matter what, parents should do something to keep the children quite when out in the public places.

I think that parents today are too scared to try to discipline their kids in public places because a passer-by might view it as child abuse and report the parent to the police. As a result, parents feel that it's better to let the child scream and scream and tire himself or herself out rather than make it look like the child's being abused. It's a sad situation that we find ourselves in, but that's life these days.

kids will be kids.maybe the kid found something he liked but his mom doesn't want to buy it for him.I actually think that the parent should be considerate of other shoppers.it doesn't necessarily mean that it's a kid,it's an excuse to let him go and throw tantrums at public places.this goes to show that the parent is not really disciplining her child.

Unfortunately, the job of parenting is a dying tradition. Most parents will ignore their children's disruptive behavior because they're too lazy to confront the issue and solve it without yelling or hitting. I've seen parents beat their kids for grabbing a candy off a shelf and I've seen parents leave their kids behind in a public setting with looking back to "teach a lesson". With human trafficking rising as it is I wouldn't let my kid out of my sight for a second but the sad truth is that not everyone is suitable for parenting.

Kids can make a lot of noise when they want to and some of them simply do not stop until they get what they want. The whole thing can be very irritating to other people. I guess some parents simply do not care if their kids' behavior is bothering other people these days.