Tiger Mom Puts Child In Trash Can For Tantrum

Posted by khalling 11 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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lol. db says his dad pulled his pants down once or twice in public for a swat on the butt. He says he would have rather gotten the trash can treatment

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  • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 6 months ago
    Yes, my mother whipped me twice in public. Didn't have to do it any more. Trash can would have been better.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Maybe the best way for a PARENT to deal with a tantrum is to ignore it, but that inflicts it on the rest of us out in public who didn't drop get and didn't fail to teach them to control themselves.

    Of course, if you let the tantrum go on long enough, one of us cranky types will dump the noisy little bastard in the trash head first, solving the problem for you. (hey, paraphrasing Bill Cosby... you made one, you can always make another...)

    Seriously, when your kid acts up in public, you need to deal with it swiftly and severely... cause I don't love your kid nearly as much as I love his silence.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79J2Ay26...
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes. I just give them the cold shoulder and it stops. I think it helps to be firm that once a tantrum gets solidly underway, they forfeit whatever they were asking for even if they stop and ask nicely. I think it also helps to give in sometimes to reasoned expostulation, even if it's at a childish level of reasoning, just to underscore that we get things by reason not by tantrums.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The best way to deal with a tantrum is to ignore it. At most, remove the child from disturbing others to a private area and let them carry on, unobserved. Basically a tantrum is a call for attention. When they find that it does not have that desired reaction, they will cease the behavior.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm not going to say the kid was abused or anything. tantrums need to be dealt with quickly. in general, I do not think adding the conditions for humiliation make sense. those actions tend to breed deep seeded contempt. that said, tantrums did not last long in my household
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 6 months ago
    While I'm not in favor of using the trash can (who knows what might be inside, and who would want to them have to clean that up?), discipline is needed with children. While I never pulled my children's pants down to impart corporal punishment, it was dispensed - swiftly and without malice, but merely to identify the action that was not approved of, that the response of not engaging in such action was not observed, and that there are consequences for actions.
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