This happened several weeks ago. Since I'm really bad about updating the blog, I'm posting several stories today.
Taking the girls to a store is always a crapshoot. They could be good, they could bad, they could be anything in between. This particular day Harley fell asleep on the way to Walmart. That means she got 5 minutes of sleep. Not a good thing. Harley stayed in the cart most of the time, whining. Vanessa was skipping and dancing down the aisles. I had to repeatedly tell her to come back. Harley saw all the fun Vanessa was having and wanted out. I let her out of the cart and they both went hopping and dancing down the aisles. Because they wouldn't listen to me, I put back Tom & Jerry t-shirts they wanted. That started the waterworks. Both were crying. However, by the time we got to the check-out Vanessa had stopped. Harley was still upset and grabbed some candy. I told her she could not have candy because she wasn't being a good girl. That started the total meltdown. She threw herself on the floor, screaming at the top of her lungs, kicking the floor. I threatened her, I talked to her and finally I ignored her.
A guy in the aisle next to ours yells over at me "You need to beat her butt!!" I say "but if I do, someone here will get upset and I'll go to jail". He repeats his insightful wisdom again as he is walking away.
I carried her out of the store kicking and screaming the whole way. The only reason someone didn't stop me to make sure I wasn't kidnapping her was because no one would want a child who acted like that!
She did get spanked and sent to bed as soon as we got home. But we all know that had I spanked her in the store I would have ended up on the 6 o'clock news with video of "abuse" and been hauled away to jail!
The next weekend Harley redeemed herself when we had to wait 2 hours to get her hair done and she was a complete angel!! I took her over and got her the t-shirt she had wanted.
You just never know...
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