Spoiled Brats
You know the kind that I'm talking about, the screaming kids in a store or local mall whose parents seem to reward the behavior with a cookie or toy just to shut them up. Those are the kids who one day grow-up into the spoiled brat adults. The spoiled brat adults are the ones who will do any number of things just to get they want no matter what, even it means crushing someone in the process of getting what they want.
I have a drastic solution to the spoiled brat syndrome that our society faces today. I know your saying well out the solution right? Personally the solution should be a common sense one for everyone, but it's not because I have a feeling that the children that are being raised as spoiled brats now are being raised by someone who was a spoiled brat themselves. Does that conclusion sound logical to you? Either way this is not getting to my drastic solution is it?
Ok, Ok, here's my solution for the parents of those spoiled brats who scream at the top of their lungs until they get want they want. Simply put don't give in to the child and discipline the child for making a scene. Oh I know that's radical thinking for some of you, but hey it works.
If you're thinking that people will charge me with child abuse for disciplining my kid in public, try ignoring the child for awhile they will eventually give up. Or you could do what my mother did when I started to make a scene by throwing a temper tantrum, she would simply say that we were going home and ending the shopping trip. She went through with this too, no matter how much I told her that I would be good for the rest of the day. When we got home I got sent to my room to think about what I had done and if I fell asleep I was awakened and the time extending.
Now I know this is maybe a hard concept to swallow for some of you that are shopoholics, but hey it really works. Maybe, just maybe if more parents disciplined their children, we as a society would have less dept and people wanting things immediately. Hmmm, a society of patient people who were willing to work together instead of against each other. Nice dream, but I personally can't see that happening during my life time. But there is one thing I would love to see happen and that is more parents actually disciplining their children in public for being bratty and bad, instead of rewarding the bad behavior. Rewarding for a negative behavior just seems so backward to me, maybe because it was reversed for me while I was growing up, rewarded for positive behavior and punished for negative. What do you think?