If your child cannot control himself for a shopping trip, you are a failure as a parent. In some parts of Africa, kids fight as soldiers. Don’t tell me a kid cannot be made to behave. Next time he gets out of line, make him bend over your knee and give him a light spanking. If that doesn’t work, use emotional blackmail. Tell him you are very disappointed in him and that you don’t love him anymore and then treat him very coldly for about a week.
These are things parents used to do regularly before they got all concerned about self esteem. A child should know that love is not unconditional.
I don’t know, I suspect that bulk bins may be profitable enough to make up for the occasional incident like this. Most stores I shop at have had them for many years, so they must find them worthwhile.
Woah, that’s a little extreme. Parental approval may not be unconditional, but love should be.
Or at least, the bulk bins should not be at such a low level. I’ve seen bulk candy sold in the sort of bins that have chutes. This also seems to be how bulk coffee is sold, in smaller bins with chutes on them, which are out of reach of a smaller child.
My mother often lamented of the children *starving *in Africa to compel me to eat my [enter disliked food here], but she never tried to guilt me into behaving with images of AK-47-toting preadolescents hopped up on brown-brown.
How would that help solve the issue at hand? Stuff had to thrown away because dad couldn’t pay for it - presumably that is a problem that would exist regardless of how the bulk bins were configured.
It seems that the children picked out the candy in the OP. If that is true, if the candy is out of their reach (in general - obviously some future NBA star wouldn’t have a problem), the parent would have to choose and, one hopes, would show a little more discretion and maturity.
However, if one expects adults to show discretion and maturity, one will often be disappointed.
Better an offspring like Naive Evian who can think and plan out their actions than one that gets knocked up, unmarried by a man, that doesn’t want any parental responsibilities.
And children who’s parents tell them that they don’t love them because they wanted a Snicker bar one afternoon would never suffer any sort of self-esteem issues that would lead them to stupid behavior like that. Good call.
Next time my daughter doesn’t eat all her food when I take her out to lunch, I’m going to call her a whore and tell her she’ll never amount to anything. That ought to do the trick, huh?
No, but it’s useful for creating adults who aren’t miserable, hateful, empty creatures who project their fear and loathing onto the world around them (and often pass it on to their own children).
And lest that come across as maudlin, I’m a childless adult who usually wishes kids would just shut the fuck up and go away.
