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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but if your daughter is responding, "I have coins," she doesn't get your incentive plan. It sounds like she understands the general idea of money but not quantity. She's going to melt down, and it seems a little cruel.

Parents tell kids "I can't buy x today" all the time, especially when they don't have money. But you're trying to get your kid to understand something more complicated. I don't think it's a bad idea to keep working with her on the concept of money, just not going to the store.[/quote]

No.  You do not purposely bring a very young child to a toy store to come home empty handed.  That’s cruel. [/quote]

Before the pandemic, people did this all the time.  The way you raise kids who don't have tantrums in the store, is you weather a tantrum or two.

My kids often came with me when I was buying things for the classroom (teacher) or a birthday present for a party.  We'd go to the store to get ideas for what they might want to put on their Christmas gift.  We'd go to play with the trains because it was rainy and we had to get out of the house.  Yes, they were, occasionally upset.  If I didn't every do anything that had the potential upset my toddler I wouldn't be able to do anything.  But they learned.  [/quote]

They learned that lovely, fun things weren’t for them.  Good job.

And prepandemic I NEVER took my kids into a toy store just to look!  [/quote]

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