How Do You Discipline Your Kids?

Imagine you’re at a party with a large group of women.  Women you’ve been excited to get to know better, because they all live in your neighborhood, and you’ve been dying to be included in all their cool mommy activities.

Now go on to imagine that at this party, circumstances (ie: a husband who can’t handle a child alone) force you to bring your 2 year old son along at what would normally be his bedtime.
Now just to make things really exciting, imagine that at the time you would be laying him down at this house, he decides to fall to the floor and throw his body around as though he was a wet fish out of water.  And to make things even better, on top of the flopping and flailing, he is screaming as though someone is murdering him a million times over.

And what’s really fun is everything in the party stops so that everyone can now look to see your child’s head spin like the possessed girl in the exorcist.  Meanwhile there are now witnesses to your first official mental breakdown.

Now, I can’t say this has ever happened to me, but if it did…well I certainly wouldn’t have looked at the nearest open window and wondered if anybody would judge me for throwing him out of it.

So, this got me wondering.  What do other moms do as far as disciplining in public?  Do you, don’t you?  And if so, how?   Without, you know, tossing them out the window.

I kid. I kid.  We’re imagining, remember?

Summer Saldana writes Le Musings of Moi.