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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been that parent with my oldest.  It typically happened when the kids were sitting in the front and the parents in the back, so I was physically separated from my child whenever he walked up in front of the book.  I always felt like my getting up and physically moving my child or yelling at him from across the room was more disruptive than letting him stand there or the librarian saying something. 
Plus, this is what other parents seemed to be doing.  I never saw anyone else getting up and moving their child.

**This child was later diagnosed with ASD, which is probably why he didn’t pick up on the social cues not to get in front of the book (and why he didn’t respond to the evil eye from myself or the librarian).

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I am so sick of hearing all these excuses for bad parenting and spoiled brats.  Libraries are not playgrounds so why are you allowing your child free range in a library setting.  The same goes for restaurants.  [/quote]

Well, as I said, he needed occasional reminders about socially appropriate behavior because he was three years old and autistic.  What’s your excuse?[/quote]

Then keep your child with you.  If he can’t remember to sit then keep him sitting with you until he can.  Now what’s your excuse? [/quote]

Well, he is a freshman in high school now, loves to read, and spends a lot of time volunteering with reading to little kids at his school and the DV shelter while their mothers go to classes.  He still hasn’t figured out all of the social rules, but he would never refer to any children as feral, spoiled brats.  
I would honestly like to know your rationale in doing this.  Why do you think it’s okay? 
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In doing what, PP?  You were wrong in how you handled the situation with your son.  And as we do continually on this forum, we post for others in the situation or soon to be in the situation.  I agree that you should have held your son next to you.

NP here.  I didn’t call your child feral but we all know kids who are “brats”. [/quote]

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