Ours kids generally behaved and if they didn't, they got taken outside and talked to (or more in the rare event it was required). Threatening without falling through is another bad parent behavior. Do it or don't talk about it. Kids do as much as they get by with. Easiest way to leave peacefully is to consistently enforce the rules.
One of my nephews went to the hardware store with me years ago along with my son. While we were standing in line, he decided to throw himself on the floor for some unknown reason. His mother would have been fawning all over him to find out what was wrong. I let him lay there a couple minutes and he got up and behaved. I never said anything to him. He knew he was being silly, I guess he wanted attention or something.
Some children are tougher and it is not always the parents fault when a child is ill behaved but most of the time the parents could do their job better. Most try. The exceptions are so obnoxious we remember them, however.
LOML is a teacher - her second profession now that the kids are gone. She cannot always resist lecturing the parents of her 6th graders. Completely obvious stuff like you cannot believe your kid when they say they have no homework but the teacher says they do. You cannot believe your child when you look on the school website and it says they have a test but the kid says they do not. The bad parents come down to the ones that believe their kid never did anything wrong in their life and the parents that just don't want to be bothered. The ones that try and listen will be OK (and so will their kids).
Jim
One of my nephews went to the hardware store with me years ago along with my son. While we were standing in line, he decided to throw himself on the floor for some unknown reason. His mother would have been fawning all over him to find out what was wrong. I let him lay there a couple minutes and he got up and behaved. I never said anything to him. He knew he was being silly, I guess he wanted attention or something.
Some children are tougher and it is not always the parents fault when a child is ill behaved but most of the time the parents could do their job better. Most try. The exceptions are so obnoxious we remember them, however.
LOML is a teacher - her second profession now that the kids are gone. She cannot always resist lecturing the parents of her 6th graders. Completely obvious stuff like you cannot believe your kid when they say they have no homework but the teacher says they do. You cannot believe your child when you look on the school website and it says they have a test but the kid says they do not. The bad parents come down to the ones that believe their kid never did anything wrong in their life and the parents that just don't want to be bothered. The ones that try and listen will be OK (and so will their kids).
Jim
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