YES!!! I know you needed that support right then, Gwenny! I laid into a guy at the supermarket once. A kid was screaming his head off. Mom had him in the cart, trying to do her shopping while he was going completely off. The guy in front of me in line complained about it, and I let him have it right between the eyes!!! My take on it was that the kid wanted out of the cart to run around, and she wouldn't let him. She may have even picked him up from running around and plopped him into the cart, which may have set off the screaming. What the kid needed was a smack on the rear, and the minute the poor mom did that in public, she'd have some idiotic do-gooder calling the police on her. So what was she SUPPOSE to do that she wasn't already doing?
Settlers - I'm 32 years old, at the time I may have been 28 or right around there. To boot - I'm 5'10" tall, and usually wear platforms that cap me off at an even 6'. Usually I get the "you are an amazon" mentality - but not in these instances -yikes!
:lol:....I was identifying with the verbose 2yo firstborn story, and even moreso with that same 2yo being drug across a parking lot! Once, that precious 2yo needed a swat in Wal-Mart, so I obliged. He took off running just a few steps--maybe 3 or 4--and then fell down ON PURPOSE spread-eagle on the floor! To everyone around it appeared I had sent him flying, but he and I knew better. I still continued to spank in public if it needed to be done and I haven't been turned in yet. Besides, I always figured if they hauled me off to jail dh would still be there for the kids .
There sure is a difference between knocking them across the room and a swat on the bottom! Legally in Ohio, they can't do anything to you when you spank, but the cops are so cowed by Social Workers that they don't know the law! And the parents don't understand the law, either, and allow them to be intimidated by the social workers (who, of course, know that EVERY parent is really a closet abuser!!!) Mine are old enough that I don't have to smack them in public. I tell can tell them in no uncertain terms that they WILL be dealt with when they get home if they don't settle down, and they KNOW I will follow through! Toddlers, though, you almost have to do it right then and there. When Rachael was two, we had been to her half-brother's soccer game. Jason was walking with her across the parking lot, and she was giving him trouble about holding his hand. So I stepped in, picked her up, and calmly walked across the parking lot with a screaming toddler in my arms, telling her that she lost her right to walk with Jason because she wouldn't obey the Parking Lot rule (ie: hold hands in the parking lot). What I DIDN'T know is that another mom was also having trouble with HER little girl. The mom told her there'd be "trouble" if she didn't hold hands. At that time, I picked up Rachael, who started screaming. The little girl looked at us, and the mom told her "See. She's got trouble!" With eyes real big, the little girl held her hand up to her mommy and replied, "NO TROUBLE!!!" (The mom told me about it at the next game, LOL!)
I was in WalMart one day when my ds was small and was throwing a fit, trying to grab things off shelves, just have a REALLY BAD day, KWIM? I had gotten onto him and warned him, so I finally had to go to the "If you don't straighten up and act right, I'm going to pull you out of the cart and spank your bottom right here." I didn't raise my voice, but I leaned in and got eye to eye with him so he knew I meant business. At that point, he stopped throwing a fit and said he was sorry and we went on about our business. As I turned the corner, a woman was standing there (obviously watching this scene unfold) and was giving me an awful look, like I had just done the most horrible thing, ever. Of course, my patience had completely run out and turned to her and said, "What? Do you want to shop with him throwing a fit in your cart? I have it all under control, thanks" and walked off. My husband about had a stroke!! He said, "She's going to follow us to the parking lot and write down our license number!" It amazes me how some older folks forget what it's like to shop or do things with young, active, VOCAL children and look at us like we're crazy. Nothing "irks" me more than to hear a baby make a noise and people about break their necks to give the Mom a look as to say, "Can't you keep him/her quiet?" Venting, sorry......
My DH would have done the exact same thing!!! I have this red cup that was "mine" from before we were married. I've an identical one, except it's yellow. Red's my favorite color, so room mates, etc. would always use the yellow one and leave the red one for me. Just about a year ago, after being married ten years, he trading me and taking my red cup. I thought he was being funny and would trade back. Turned out he suddenly decided he didn't want to use the yellow one, because red's a much more masculine color. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!
Jackie!!! My dh used to give our Awana Commander the HARDEST time about his feminine yellow shirt :lol:....pink I can understand, but yellow???
