Oh, You Want What?
This dad has it goin’ on – how to stop the bratty tantrums. I haven’t seen anything this funny, and also “matter of fact”, “this is how you do it right”, iin a long time. I say kudos to this guy because he knows how to raise ’em right. He’s going to be the best Grandpa ever, too.
We need more parents like him. Lots more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2SDsrd1lvo
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Feel Good Stories
That video was a breath of fresh air, thanks for the link.
I wish more parents were like him and teaching their kids how to act in public and to be responsible adults. He is right. He IS the Daddy and he is setting limits, well done.
I saw one woman with a child about the same age it the seat of the shopping cart walking through Home Depot. The little boy was screaming his head off throwing a tantrum. The dad in this video would have straightened him out pronto. Too bad for that little guy.
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Concur. How to prevent raising snowflakes.
Good Job Dad! It all boils down to proper Home Training…at an early age. You can’t wait until they become adults to teach them how to be adults.
One lucky little girl.
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Dad? Is that you?
That man has his act together, nicely done Sir. Cute kid too!
We have an old man bus driver here in S E Vt.. He has been at it for maybe 30 years. When he has problems with kids acting up on his bus he finds a safe place to pull over and just sits there till they get the idea that if they want to get home they better shut up and act right. He bussed my kids and now my grandkids. A good chauffeur
and a very patient man.
Wow. My faith in our future has been restored!
Now I think the chance that we might be ok is bigger than I thought.
My father, a GP physician and the sire of a slew of kids, had similar ideas about discipline with a special twist. When my bride and I became parents, that first month was sleepless. Complaining to him, he gave the following advice: at 1 month old and no later than 2 month old, let the kid cry until he/she goes back to sleep. It does the following: it establishes who is boss; it doesn’t hurt the kid; with one night of letting the kid cry, you will get sleep from then on. It worked on our three kids and passing the advice to our grown children, it worked on the grandkids. You have to be strong that one night (it is really tough for moms). I have no doubt that establishing being the boss at this super young age leaves a lasting impression – well, at least until the kid is a teenager. PS: for one of our kids it took four hours of crying before she went back to sleep, but that was the last night she woke us up.
I agree in principle with your Dad, wise man, with one caveat. I recommend waiting until about 6 weeks to 3 months, depending on the child’s development. The tell-tale is when an infant is regularly, obviously, socially engaging. The infant is learning to control their world with external reinforcement. Allowing them to ‘cry it out’ enables them to develop internal soothing mechanisms and promotes healthy, secure attachment.
Too many parents, particularly those with liberal, pop-psych educations, are more concerned with how others will view them as parents than doing what is best for their kids. You can tell who those parents were as they now ignore their kids screaming their fool heads off in the grocery store at 3, 5, 7, etc. They think that is normal. The pop-psych crowd has it backwards and assumes those are the parents that let the baby ‘cry it out’.
I remember one time, exactly one, at about 3 yeas old that mine tried throwing a temper tantrum in the store. I got lots of nasty looks and tsk-tsks as I stood over him, just stared at him, calm and silent while he sat on the floor, cried and screamed. When he took a breath, I asked if he was done and if he thought this was going to get him what he wanted (some toy, back when the grocery store had the aisle with little toys). Like a car hitting a brick wall, he stopped dead, bewildered. He never, ever again pulled that nonsense.
Pat Condell on how everything rude and/or disliked by proggies is now “hate”…
He should make more parenting classes. Thanks for the video. I’ll share that with my niece and nephew, both in their early 20’s.