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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No shows, no dessert tonight for starters _ and I told the other one he wasn't going to be allowed to go to local income daycare this summer (where little brother goes and he wants to go) because his behavior wasn't good enough for that environment where she can't have big kids who act like babies. I don't even know what else an appropriate punishment is.

To the pp who said we should leave immediately most of this started as we were in the process to leave? [b]How should I handle Then?[/b] I felt like I couldn't walk into parking lot befor3 things were under control but ultimately did.[/quote]

I do not understand what you are asking. Are you asking how to leave when they first cross a line?

Or are you meaning to say they were absolute angels until you were fully checked out, and then all of this happened like a switch flipped after you were already partway to the car, in the parking lot and fully out of the store:

[quote]... go absolutely apesh!t at Costco tonight...jumping in and out of the car, punching and kicking each other … making shooting gun symbols with their hands and pointing them at me, shouting about how they were gonna get me, I was going to be kicked out of our family and sent to jail, sent to the moon, catapulted on top of a building ... I tried so hard to […] keep younger one strapped into seat (he would wriggle free), [b]have older one go sit on bench [/b] [in the parking lot, on the way to the car?]and collect himself and count to 10 ... [or] a job like pushing the cart (He refused) _ I just absolutely couldn't contain them. [/quote]

Leaving isn't punishment. Leaving is natural consequences, and you leave without the food or treats you went there to buy, because you were not able to buy them. And dinner and breakfast are filling enough, but no fun.

And you try again another day.[/quote]

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