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(28,945 posts)"Now I understand why animals will sometimes eat their young."
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)[img][/img] By the way ... [img][/img] who dropped this group off in GD? Hmmm
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...I want to take that little girl from that woman's arms and give her a big hug. Not the little girl, that mother. Her face is familiar. I seem to remember seeing it in the mirror about 27 years ago. Scenes of worldwide tragedies swimming through your mind while you hold a child melting into despair over a gas station receipt.
Edit: I forgot to add that while you're attempting to survive until princess recovers, scores of the self-righteous will judge you as the most horrible parent on earth. A few will have their finger on the button for '911'.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)I try to get the child's attention and then make myself into a pretzel shape or just make a really strange expression - it works like a charm - they stop crying and stare at me in wild-eyed puzzlement
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)I'll put one through college
And the other through a wall
840high
(17,196 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)Packerowner740
(676 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)have either one of them have a public meltdown. My heart goes out
to parents dealing with kids who are tired, hungry, bored being dragged around
on errands. It was a challenge, but I made an effort not to do
that with my kids and got lucky, I guess. It takes the same effort
to deal with them at home, too, and a lot of parents have too many
other things demanding their attention.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)-- Bill Cosby quoting his father.