I committed a mortal sin in Walmart!

i too agree your point, im my locality also these types of things happening .. i try to eradicate but i cant solve by a single person.. it can be resolved by all human beings especially the government have to take necessary steps.......

I ever taught in the kindergarten that I know how naughty of the kids that you even can not image. Kids accept different leture by different personality. For some kids, if you shouted at them to calm them dwon, they just put a deaf ear to you and maybe they will be further intensified. I mean it did not work for some kids. Every parents did not mean to have their kids shrieking or screaming in the public if they can control. For such case, I will remind them and not shout back to them if I am annoying. Or I will walk away if I feel noisy.

I'd have picked up a belt off the rack & handed it to the kids parent. "Here you go, you need this!"

I have 4 kids so I know what it is like to be in a public place when one of them or even worse more of them decide to act out. In most all cases I would leave the place and return later when things were calmer. I remember one incident when I did not have a vehicle and I lived away from shopping centers. I had a kind friend who went out of her way to bring me shopping. I had paid her for gas. We got about half way around the store and my little 3 yr old started in crying and carrying on. I could NOT just up and leave at that point. We NEEDED the groceries and who knew when my next opportunity to get a ride would be. well some lady confronted me and ordered me to get my child out of the store. I was furious. She did not know the circumstances nor did she care. So no...I don't confront other parents unless they are being neglectful or abusive. I would intervene if the child were doing something potentially harmful if the parent did not seem to be noticing for sure.

Today Wal-Mart, tomorrow what? lol I had not heard of the nose pinching thing. If my husband and I are there together and one kid starts acting up, one of us will take the little pain in the neck outside. And if it were just me, I'd leave my cart and go home. And if it were somebody elses kid, the glare, that is all, the glare...

Not as bad as screaming "shut the f*** up" to some woman who coughed her crap on me in church to the point where the pastor stood in shock looking at you as well as the congregation... Although a screaming child in a supermarket is the annoyance of every shopper

I have to laugh at this. I have four children myself so I know what it is like to have a screaming child in Walmart. I find that the best way to handle this is to give them a sucker it usually shuts them up. But if that doesn't work I just leave the store. I know that it is not fair to the other shoppers to have to listen to bratty children so if I cannot control them I just take them out to the car and go shopping when I can get a babysitter.

So what about special needs kids? Should we just medicate them or hide them away at home? My oldest is autistic. For the most part he's a pretty happy go lucky kid, but meltdowns are still unpredictable. And with him almost as tall as me I can't just pick up or throw him over my shoulder and take him out of the store. And getting him back to the vehicle doesn't always work, if I can even get him that far. I do what I can to calm him down in the store. I certainly don't ignore his tantrums, meltdowns, or whatever the hell they are called. But I can't drag him out anymore. He's too big and I'm just not that strong. Crawling and running around the store or chewing on things that they shouldn't is another matter entirely and I don't approve of it at all. I've tried to teach my kids to know better, though there have been a couple of mishaps with my oldest where he ran off. And believe me, I freaked when that happened! If it's just a tantrum where a toddler or baby is crying I just ignore it. But then again maybe I'm a little more tolerable than you. LOL Hmm, maybe you should invest in some earplugs. That way you won't have to hear them scream! Happy mylotting!

I tend to have more compassion for people and their circumstances. They are probably doing the best they know how to do. All of us who have children have had to put up with shreiking children at one time or another. It is something that we have had to deal with.

wow! you are super critical. do you have kids? perhaps if you are so put off by how people dress and act in walmart you should find a different place to shop from now on and furthermore, kids cry someitmes and have meltdowns. pinching a child's nose closed is cruel. i really cannot believe this rant.

Yes, I'm with you....I do feel for mothers in this situation, it must be horrible to have people giving you looks because your child is screaming, and I am not a mother myself. Having said that, I know I would not have got away with it. I remember my Dad literally picking my brother up by his collar and carrying him out of a store because he was having a tantrum. And I know I have been in stores muttering 'shut UP!' under my breath so its not hard to imagine saying it loud enough to be heard...lol

Apparently you are the perfect parent having never had a child misbehave in public. Yes I do think that parents should do more to control their kids, and they should have done something to control this one. But I also think that you should be aware that not all parents would tolerate a complete stranger butting into their affairs. You really should be thankful that was not me or my kids that you said shut up to. In my younger days a stranger yelled at my child. Rest assured the consequences of that little incident was well witnessed by both his wife and his child. And I think that in the end, he didnt seem quite as 'manly' to them as he would have hoped to. Im just saying...

I love your response to the howling child!.... My question is, did the parent seem to be offended in any way. I'm sure that if the parent was not willing to say anything to the child that he/she was not going to say anything to you. I couldn't help but laugh when i read this....

that is too funny...lol

i hate that when that happens. i am too chicken to say anything but hate it when a kid acts up (especially in a restuarant). i have even notice this happening in the church i attend. the parents are cheefully talking to other adults and totally ignoring their kids and the kids are pew jumping!

I assume the child shut up. I too have felt like doing the same. Or at least tell the parents to make the child shut the noise. Some parents are just too soft or care less.

I have a nephew who is very naughty.l love him very much.when the summer come i usually play with him all days .but sometimes he drives me crazily such as when i watch TV,sleep. he does not to be scared of me .when i could not stand up,i will hit directly and then he will be quiet for a while and come back after the next day .though i can not change his bad behaviors,i just love him sincerely . i do want to change him.