On 7/28/2015 8:54 AM, Boron Elgar wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:49:16 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> On 7/28/2015 9:21 AM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:42:22 -0400, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/27/2015 8:54 PM, sf wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:14:47 -0400, jmcquown >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Is that the only child horror story you can trot out? It's getting
>>>>> long in the tooth.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I've got plenty of them, thanks. I loaned another friend a hardback
>>>> book and she let her kid scribble all through it with a pen and crayons.
>>>> I met a different friend for lunch one day - I was on my lunch break.
>>>> She let her kid dip his fries in ketchup and throw them at me. Rather
>>>> than take the fries away from him all she did was say "Gary, quit" over
>>>> and over. Of course he didn't. I had to go back to work wearing a
>>>> ketchup-stained blouse. I've been seated in a booth in a restaurant and
>>>> had kids kicking the back of the seat on the side where I was sitting.
>>>> Another instance, a kid throwing food over onto our table. As usual,
>>>> the parents seem to think there is nothing wrong with this behavior.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> And there is little or nothing wrong with the kids' behavior.
>>>
>> Really? Destruction of personal property or throwing food at someone is
>> okay with you?
>
> I didn't say it was ok. It is just not odd behavior for a young child
> though. Kids do all sorts of stuff and their parents/caregivers are
> the ones who are supposed to rein them in if they get out of hand.
> That is how a child is trained. Puppies, too.

So they could benefit from crate training?