Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
> ...
> What really ****es me off royally is the intervener who tells me I
should
> 'lighten up, they're just kids' when I try to reprimand my kids. I
took the
> three remaining trolls to a diner one night when my husband had a
late
> meeting. (Oldest in the Navy, let Uncle Sam deal with his manners)
The 13
> year old and the 11 year old were at each other from the start. The
8 year
> old not to be left out jumped in. I told them that we were in a
public
> place and to behave. It didn't work.......I asked the waitress, who
had
> brought them drinks but hadn't taken our order yet to give me a check
for
> the drinks, we were leaving. They looked at me like I had three
heads and
> started whining 'why'. I told them that if they misbehave in public
there
> are consequences....like going home to a pbj. Which is exactly what
they
> got for dinner when they got home. They weren't happy, but I told
them the
> old adage...=EDf mom ain't happy, ain't no body happy ....I refuse to
be made
> look bad in public by misbehaving children. On the way out, an
older woman
> stopped me and told me to 'lighten up, they were just children'....I
told
> her when should I step in? When they threw chairs at each other?
She
> looked at me in horror, but I then turned around and asked her did
her
> children behave that way in public when they were younger and would
she have
> put up with it....? I left, children in tow, public seeing I took
charge,
> and one older lady with her mouth open.
> -Ginny


Good for you. I saw someone else do something similar in the grocery
store once - she had two boys about 6 and 7 and a girl about 4. The
boys went and got onto one of the "car" carts, and the little girl was
supposed to ride inside the cart - well, she was having no part of it
and putting up a fuss. Her Mom told her to cool it and if she couldn't
get herself under control they would leave - the girl continued to
squall, Mom took all three by the hand and marched them out to the car.
Good Mommy!

-L.