Lesson learned: The child just learned that
tantrums can have benefits. What the parent didn’t learn is that type of bribing
can and will likely escalate to eventual blackmail.
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Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Lesson Learned
The other day as I was walking from my car
to the local mall I saw a woman loading her shopping items into the trunk of
her car. With two young children, she had her hands full. Although one sat
patiently in the stroller near the woman as she transferred her items from the
grocery cart to her car, the other child, already secured in a car seat,
decided to have a screaming tantrum. As I continued my walk toward the mall, I
could hear the woman say, perhaps to the benefit of anyone within hearing distance,
that she was going to resort to bribing the screamer by rewarding the behavior with
some candy, hoping that would address the matter.
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