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Janet

In article >,
says...
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >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.
> >
> > I can't believe you wrote that, or believe it.
> >
> > Janet UK
>
> I wrote it and you should believe it. Stop thinking in generalities
> and tsk tsk finger wagging and face facts.
>
> Do you REALLY think that little kids sit around like statues?

Of course not. But a child who had enough co-ordination to repeatedly
dip a fry in sauce, throw it across the table and repeatedly hit the
target;or, kick the back of other peoples chairs, clearly is NOT a baby.
He's big and old enough to have a clue about acceptable behaviour to
adults.

Many times kids just find somethign to get into and no
> one could have predicted it would have happened. (A FOAF's kid once
> emptied an entire container of baby powder all over the living room to
> mimic the snow coming down outside.

You should have seen what my 2 yr olds did with a 25 lb sack of flour.
Or, with a pound of soft spread. Or the time they flushed oranges down
the lavatory until it blocked. Or drew patterns on the baby with a felt
tip. But unlike the child in Jills example, they instantly stopped when
told, understood they were never to repeat that misbehaviour again, and
didnt. That's the difference between kid mischief and deliberate
repeated naughtiness as Jill described.

> Beyond that, though, a kid can get tired, scared, sick, etc,

A sick scared tired child should be taken home.

Janet.