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I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet but how do you guys feel about this ?? Are you the same ? Do you disagree?

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I get that kids sometimes have meltdowns that can't be avoided. That's ok.

However, I don't think his reasoning is sound. He's expecting the entire world to accomedate him and his children.

Like it's not social acceptable to allow children to scream their heads off in an airplane just because they feel like it, instead of implementing stratagies to calm them. It's a shared public space with no escape.

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🤷 People parent differently. I think its best to teach kids how to behave in public rather than letting them run amuck and lay on the dirty floor, but that's just me.

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Meltdowns happen. It's not a big deal. What is a big deal is when you choose not to use it as a learning experience and teach the kid how they are expected to act in public.

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Eh. I'm all for letting them cry it out at home but I swear if I'm on an airplane or something and your child is screaming their head off and kicking my seat while you sit there and let them "get it all out" I will turn around and teach them a lesson myself. There's a time and place for it, don't let your kid ruin someone else's day. When they throw a tantrum in public its not really that people are going to be embarrassed for you because of your child, but because you've let a child be a pain in the neck for someone else. You're a pain to other adults if you refuse to control kids and that IS embarrassing. I don't judge the kids, because yes, they have emotions too, but I judge the parents who let a child's emotions destroy everyone else's plans.

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Little people easily get overwhelmed by big emotions, they learn in their own time how to process and control them. If you force them to repress them how will they ever learn?

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Well, I agree with most of it! It's absolutely okay for kids to feel and it is important for us to let them feel and not make them feel embarrassed or ashamed. Public tantrums? I mean... I would atleast try to handle the situation accordingly. I'd probably use a good distraction technique. I have four kids so I'm no stranger to public tantrums. There's been times I've taken my little ones to Walmart when they started throwing a tantrum either because they wanted a toy, or a piece of candy and I said no, or because they didn't want to get in the buggy! I mostly try to just distract them! "Let's go look at the fish!!" They're drying those eyes in a matter of seconds! Or, if they're throwing themselves on the ground, I'll be like, "Okay you throw your fit and I'll just go look at the fish! Bye! See ya later!" Then, I will start to walk away. They're up off that floor and wagging right along behind me within seconds! So, it's not really nessesary to just let them throw a tantrum in public like that, and it's really not even nessesary to console them, or coddle them. If I were on a plane and my kid was throwing a fit, I'd probably take out a notebook and some pens and say, "I'm gonna draw a picture! Wanna help?" I wouldn't even have to really even bring the tantrum up. I don't really have to bring attention to that sort of negative behavior. But, I can distract my children and help them move on from that. That's probably the best way to do it!

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