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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's worse, giving your kid a piece of cheese that you're going to pay for anyway, or making other customers listen to them as they meltdown on you because they see their favorite cheese in the buggy and can't have it? It's not the end of the world, especially if what they're snacking on is something that isn't sold by weight. [/quote]

Or how about option 3, don't reward your kids for having meltdowns in the first place and after the first one or two they won't try it anymore.  Meltdown equals we leave the store and have an icy quiet ride home. Meltdown does not equal ok you get whatever you want just shut up. Not so hard really. [/quote]

Look, sorry, that is sometimes not an option. If my DC has a fit and I have to leave a place that's optional for me to be at (clothing store, etc.) or if my husband and I are both at a restaurant and one of us can take her outside to calm down, that's one thing and I willingly do that all the time. If I'm at the grocery store, alone, I'm not abandoning the buggy I just spent 35 minutes filling and taking my child home only to then have to go BACK to the grocery store to do it all over again because I had to leave without groceries. In that case, I'm giving her a damn piece of cheese so she will STFU, and then I leave as quickly as I can. [/quote]

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