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Crap parenting in our UK youth today (in Poland it's a little better) [52]
I have to share this story. When our 17 yo daughter was a toddler she began with the temper tantrums. Her favorite location to throw these fits were department stores in front of an audience (in our case sari-waering Indian babcias). One day, as my wife tells it, Stephie decides she wants something that is displayed at the cashier's line. Her mother says no and this sets off the tantrum. My wife had had it at this point so she left our daughter there on the floor, flailing her limps,
screamingat the top of her lungs to the horror of our Punjabi neighbors. Despite the floor-show, my wife continues to look staright ahead waiting her turn to check out. Tens of brown, bindi-bejeweled faces are looking at my wife in disgust, at how mean and uncaring she apparently is to her daughter. By the time my wife checked out the hysteria had passed and Stephie never again threw another tantrum!............I don't think I would've been able to stand the stares myself. I was so proud of my wife that day.
