children behaving badly!

well, sometimes its hard to punish them as now days if you spank your kids in public or repromand them, others think its child abuse . i dont like it either and when my son acts out, for me its embarrasing, so i just pick him up and take him home.

I can totally understand what you mean and have experienced this time and time again especially at the supermarket where a mother has walked in and the child starts cying from the time she starts her shopping and she just ignores it! If it was me in the past I would have stopped it from happening more so out of embarrassment and you know all eyes are on you! But I have also in the past had a friend or two who would just sit there as their child played up and did nothing! On the very one occasion that I did speak up I saw the other side to this one "friend" and never said anything again. I cannot understand parents allowing this kind of behaviour and will probably never will.

I think we need to walk in their shoes before we judge. I also think we could help not just criticize

I think there is a generation of some bad parenting going on. I think it's really sad. I kinda feel bad for the kids too. The parents probably are not giving their kids enough time. Many parents are using TV and video games as a babysitter. Perhaps after seeing all this, a new generation of parents will look back and try to correct these behavioral problems.