"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>> When I was in my 20's I had a friend who had a 2 year old. She brought
>> her adorable child to my home one day. The "adorable child" started
>> pulling books out of my bookcase and tearing pages out of them. Her
>> mother blithely ignored her. I yelled at the girl. "STOP THAT!" My
>> friend had the nerve to get angry at me for yelling at her kid. She was
>> destroying my books. Would you have put up with that?
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>> Jill
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> Nope, never did, never will. My grandkids get a lot of leeway, but not to
> destroy things or be disrespectful of others. I find that kids do well
> with boundaries. It makes for a happy time for all. Usually when some kids
> are acting like little maniacs in the stores it's because of lazy
> parenting. Nobody will ever convince me that it's a good thing either.
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> Cheri

I was once watching a 2 year old while her mom and older kids talked to the
police. Unfortunately they had witnessed someone get run over by a train
and had to give statements. So I wasn't exactly babysitting. They were
just in the other room. The girl didn't rip out pages but she did begin
coloring in the book with a crayon. It was one of her books. When I told
her to stop, she pulled an attitude and ran to her mom who just shrugged and
said she could do what she wanted.

I don't recall Angela ever doing anything like that but she did take a
Sharpie to the face of a doll. Oddly enough, the girl upstairs from us had
done the exact same thing to her doll which was exactly the same doll. The
two didn't know each other at the time that was done so that was weird!
Then that girl, who was older, instructed her to put makeup on a Barbie head
that she had. Someone had given it to her as a gift and it was a
hairstyling head. Not a makeup head which they also do make. Both girls
were horrified when the makeup stained the toy and came to me for help. The
makeup wouldn't come off no matter what I did. I can't remember now if they
used real or toy makeup but most likely real. Most of that toy makeup is
made in China and it stains the kid's face! So I generally did not let her
have it.