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Ice · 09-08-2008, 05:10 PM

My nephew has no discipline, he has total control of his parents. Its gotten to the point where we refuse to go anywhere in public with them. We took my mother-in-law to a really nice dinner for her birthday. It was her 60th and we wanted it to be special, so we booked a reservation at a restaurant on the beach, rented a limo to take everyone there and invited my sister-in-law (thus her husband and their son) to join. Her son ran out of the restaurant off the deck and on to the beach screaming. This was a really nice restaurant and the deck was a raised deck very close to the water. It was totally dangerous. Because he didn't want to sit and eat dinner, they stayed outside on the beach with him while he ran away from them trying to get to the water. It was ridiculous. Then on the way home, he screamed and cried in the limo for 45 minutes because the driver wouldn't stop at the dollar store and get him a power ranger. We all tried to explain to him that the dollar store was probably closed, but that just made him more angry and he screamed and cried the entire ride home. All the while his mom was rubbing his cheek, giving him affection because he was upset. After all the other experiences with them, it was the last time we have gone anywhere in public with them. The only exception is a picnic at a park, because they can chase him all day long and it won't affect me. I'm hoping now that he's in kindergarten he'll experience some discipline from his teacher that might translate to home. Oh, the best part. When we finally got home he started punching his mom for not getting him a power ranger so she went in to my inlaws house, got him a power ranger from the toybox there and told him "here, take this home and we'll get you a new power ranger tomorrow." Even my 10 year old looked at me and said "you've got to be kidding!"

My kids always knew what behavior was expected from them and they were never allowed to scream or make a scene in a restaurant. All kids, particularily babies and toddlers, have those times where they're upset and out of sorts. I've always found that taking them outside and settling them down out there was much better than disturbing other people who wanted to be able to eat dinner and have a conversation without have a screaming kid disturb their meal.

09-08-2008, 05:10 PM	#7
Ice #1 Goaltender Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Southern California Exp:	My nephew has no discipline, he has total control of his parents. Its gotten to the point where we refuse to go anywhere in public with them. We took my mother-in-law to a really nice dinner for her birthday. It was her 60th and we wanted it to be special, so we booked a reservation at a restaurant on the beach, rented a limo to take everyone there and invited my sister-in-law (thus her husband and their son) to join. Her son ran out of the restaurant off the deck and on to the beach screaming. This was a really nice restaurant and the deck was a raised deck very close to the water. It was totally dangerous. Because he didn't want to sit and eat dinner, they stayed outside on the beach with him while he ran away from them trying to get to the water. It was ridiculous. Then on the way home, he screamed and cried in the limo for 45 minutes because the driver wouldn't stop at the dollar store and get him a power ranger. We all tried to explain to him that the dollar store was probably closed, but that just made him more angry and he screamed and cried the entire ride home. All the while his mom was rubbing his cheek, giving him affection because he was upset. After all the other experiences with them, it was the last time we have gone anywhere in public with them. The only exception is a picnic at a park, because they can chase him all day long and it won't affect me. I'm hoping now that he's in kindergarten he'll experience some discipline from his teacher that might translate to home. Oh, the best part. When we finally got home he started punching his mom for not getting him a power ranger so she went in to my inlaws house, got him a power ranger from the toybox there and told him "here, take this home and we'll get you a new power ranger tomorrow." Even my 10 year old looked at me and said "you've got to be kidding!" My kids always knew what behavior was expected from them and they were never allowed to scream or make a scene in a restaurant. All kids, particularily babies and toddlers, have those times where they're upset and out of sorts. I've always found that taking them outside and settling them down out there was much better than disturbing other people who wanted to be able to eat dinner and have a conversation without have a screaming kid disturb their meal.