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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
If a parent is willing to pay attention to a kid and anticipate kid's needs they can head off tantrums when they are at the butterfly flapping its wings in south america stage.
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The above statement is total balls.
I, too, am blessed with the demonic entity known as a two-year old child, and she is also very well behaved. My partner and I are calm, gentle, and stop most tantrums before they happen. But every now and again, we have to make her do something
that she does not want to do. Sometimes, it's getting on a bus, or standing in a queue. Sometimes, it's when she's tired. You can anticipate your kid's needs all you want, but sometimes you're in a place that
you don't want to be in either, and you wish you could throw a tantrum as well. Sometimes, life isn't that ordered.
However, there are some parents who make the whole thing worse. As a parent, I find little in the urban environment more irritating than other parents who take up all the space, push in queues, or hit you (or your kid) with their oversized pram/pushchair. My partner and I have managed to raise our child from birth to two and a half without carrying fourteen bags, 75% of the time without a pushchair or supersized backpack, without a
car, and with hardly any money. Some parents are just selfish and they raise selfish kids to fuel a selfish society.
What we need is a program of
Total Sterilisation, where nobody can have a child without submitting a lengthy proprosal and set of documents proving how capable they will be of raising a healthy, intelligent child, which will then allow them to have the sterilisation reversed. (That was supposed to be a joke, but I'm kind of warming to the idea now I look at it again).