I ain't no parent but...

[tracilicious]

Ugh! I hate seeing things like that. I'd be tempted to send some shame in his direction with a few well chosen loud remarks. Then, I'm sure you are a better person than I am, GC.

I think that stage can hit anywhere between 3-6. As with anything, you can tell a child it's only appropriate in private about a million times before it actually sinks in. Still no excuse for his behavior.

Mousewife, that is brilliant! Way to go with creative parenting!

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Ugh! I hate seeing things like that. I'd be tempted to send some shame in his direction with a few well chosen loud remarks. Then, I'm sure you are a better person than I am, GC.

I think that stage can hit anywhere between 3-6. As with anything, you can tell a child it's only appropriate in private about a million times before it actually sinks in. Still no excuse for his behavior.

Mousewife, that is brilliant! Way to go with creative parenting!

Hee hee. I am sitting here reading this thread and thinking wow, I have never gone through this....

I read Mousey Girls' solution and thought that was pretty brilliant {and also thought of all of the grown men I see playing with change in their pockets.... }.

So, alas, it was not I with the brilliant idea.

But seriously, I never had to deal with this issue. Well, not 'fingerbanging'.

And I'll leave it at that....

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Ugh! I hate seeing things like that. I'd be tempted to send some shame in his direction with a few well chosen loud remarks. Then, I'm sure you are a better person than I am, GC.

I thought about saying something and then I thought, 'Well, what exactly could one say?' So, I didn't say nothing. I guess I could have given him my disapproving arched eyebrow look... but he was running around and difficult to get eye contact with. Meh.

[MouseWife]

GC~ sometimes it is really hard to keep in what you want to say.

Mostly I deal with teens running around Target on half days. They came in and bought squirt guns and water balloons. I didn't think anything of it, of course they would all get wet but....

Little did I know they would squirt one another {not the same kids} insidethe store!!!

You know 'WTF do you think you are doing you little shiets?' is what I wanted to say but all I said was 'There are no squirt guns allowed in the store. Please take that outside'.

Or the young couple who came in wearing baseball caps, hoods, and dark sunglasses...to buy a pregnancy test kit.

Or the three young boys who bought a box of colorful condoms...I had heard them talking 'Here's my dollar for my share....' I didn't have a clue and when they came through all I could think about was the 'Summer of '42'. {is that it?}

It is hard to bite your tongue. Sometimes mine bleeds.

{oh, and I won't even get into the awful things I see, these things are just sort of funny...like the guy/girl coming in buying a cd, bottle of wine, and condoms...I wanna say 'Oh, someones going to have a good night tonight...'}