Standing in a grocery store makes me think sometimes. Tonight, it was at checkout. There was a lady with 2 kids, one who was about 2 years old. This kid was standing in the cart, jumping around, screaming and grabbing at stuff. The mom kept saying "Stop. You need to stop." After a couple minutes, I seriously wanted to say "Not to be rude, but I don't think that's working." Now I've heard the expression "try, try, again", and to be honest I don't know who came up with the phrase, but I just doubt they meant to do the same exact thing over and over.
They say you have tons of parenting techniques... until you have kids. I'm sure this is true, and I don't pretend to be an expert. I don't claim to have the answer to a 2 year old who won't stop, but I do think this: I'd have to think that if that was me, there is something inside me that after 15 tries over 2 minutes, I would have to stop and think maybe I should try something else...
I don't have all the answers to parenting, but here's a few things I've picked up over the years:
*If one of your kids has the other locked in the ice chest freezer at walmart, you may need a new parenting technique.
*If one of your kids has the other held up by his ankles out the car window so he can reach the toy on the ground, you may need a new technique. (note: this was in a parking lot. obviously if the car had been in motion, I'd have called the police.)
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