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	grrliz 2007-04-09 12:06 am UTC (link)
	I feel like something was wrong with my childhood because neither me nor my three sisters ever threw tantrums in public. (Reply to this)(Thread)

pantyless_angel
2007-04-09 01:14 am UTC (link)

Not really, my says mom said the only time she can ever remember me or my brother having a tantrum was when I was 6 months old and grabbed a purple teddy bear off a store shelf and screamed bloody murder if anyone tried to take it away. My brother started throwing a fit so they let him pick out a stuffed animal to, he picked out a pink raccoon. I still have the bear.
Some kids just don't throw tantrums, I know some who did all the time, and some who never had a tantrum even once.

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eviemouse
2007-04-09 01:16 am UTC (link)

I have rarely witnessed a child having one in public until this date - if you read those comments, you'd think children did nothing else.

Although my parents tell me that my older cousin employed temper tantrums in the supermarket quite successfully and got her parents to buy her whatever she wanted - I guess they can be a good strategy if your parents are easilly to manipulate.

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	seiberwing 2007-04-09 02:44 am UTC (link)
	Supposedly I once threw a huge fit in the middle of Krogers, and was later a perfect angel at a Rosh Hashanah party later that day. Bipolar, go figure. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hallidae 2007-04-09 02:51 am UTC (link)
	My only tantrums were when my parents would put that stupid braceletleash thing on me. Then I'd plop down on my butt in the middle of a store and start shrieking "I NOT DOG!!!111one" at the top of my lungs. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cleolinda 2007-04-09 03:07 am UTC (link)
	Tantrum or not, that is full of win. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	seiberwing 2007-04-09 03:29 am UTC (link)
	See, you were doing it wrong. I just took mine off, put it on my aunt while she wasn't looking, and went waddling off into the flea market. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	exdee 2007-04-09 01:22 pm UTC (link)
	They did that to my brother. He used it to trip people. I love my family. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sepiamagpie 2007-04-09 03:09 am UTC (link)
	mine usually involved my sisters and someone's fist. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	demonbean 2007-04-09 04:09 am UTC (link)
	I had a sort of a tantrum. I was four, and had night terrors (the sort one can't wake up from). Relatively benign, in a way, only it started when we were halfway through a flight to Paris. Oops. I actually still feel guilty about that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

caito
2007-04-09 04:31 am UTC (link)

Aw, my little sisters have night terrors sometimes, you should never feel guilty about them because there's really nothing you can do.

Myself, on the other hand... well, my mother told me that I was the worst-behaved kid she ever saw on an airplane. In fact, she said that if other people practiced birth control and cited me as the reason, she wouldn't blame 'em. Considering how, uh, anti-birth control use my mother is in her personal life, that's pretty strong.

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	khym_chanur 2007-04-09 04:29 am UTC (link)
	I don't think I ever threw tantrums, but when I was four I pressed the emergency stop button for an escelator at a mall, because, hey, shiny red button. I hate to think what the pre-internet child-free folk there thought of me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui
2007-04-09 06:16 am UTC (link)

My daughter, when she was considerably younger, managed to press the emergency stop button in the elevator at a doctor's office once. Alarms went off and everything, it was fabulous. The maintenance people just laughed it off once we got out - the button was really low to allow for wheelchair access, and apparently there had been many children before mine who were unable resist temptation - but it was still incredibly embarrassing.

Luckily, the alarms kinda freaked my daughter out, so she learned pretty quickly that that particular shiny red button was definitely off limits in future. XD

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	caito 2007-04-09 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Most of my siblings were little angels, but I used to be a right scheming terror. Perhaps I didn't torture puppies or kill kittens or, even worse, throw temper tantrums, but I'd lock siblings outside when I was sick of them, constantly go to forbidden places (like, um, the roof), and just generally be obnoxious. These days, though, I think I'm reasonably well-adjusted. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lostmahmarbles 2007-04-09 05:04 am UTC (link)
	I never did either. I just had the ability to disappear from sight if my parents so much as blinked. Needless to say, I spent most of my childhood on a leash. I'm also banned from so much as looking at the play tubes at Sea World. :( (Reply to this)(Parent)

wrongly_amused
2007-04-09 05:06 am UTC (link)

Your mother is one lucky lady. XD I unfortunately fell into the category of those obnoxious, histrionic fucks that couldn't be taken anywhere.

These wanks always amuse me because the tantrum rate of a four year old is somehow magically indicative of the mother or father's collective competency rate as a parent. I'll tell you what - tell me what that kid's doing for society in twenty years, and then we'll have a word about their upraising skills.

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	exdee 2007-04-09 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	We threw tantrums pretty much everywhere but restaurants, where people would compliment our parents on how well-behaved we were. My brothers and I knew you didn't mess around when there was food involved. /except for that time we broke the cookie jar. whoops. (Reply to this)(Parent)

mary_mac
2007-04-09 05:25 pm UTC (link)

I never did either. Mind you, mother is a teacher and was not slow to use the Teacher Voice Of Doom on us or any other kid in family. My baby sister did once throw a wobbler because she got put in the pram when everyone else was walking, but that was it. Beat the living daylights out of each other, but not in public.

Plus, my twin cousins had spent much of their toddlerhoods doing things like legging it down the Mariahilferstrasse, eating coal, and generally being inventively evil in the way only small, cute, blond twin boys can be. So the rest of us looked angelic by comparison. And now I think of it, were probably not ever let be in a position to do anything that the twins had been caught doing...

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evilsqueakers
2007-04-09 07:55 pm UTC (link)

I was a huge temper tantrum thrower. I was good at it, too. Apparently when I was like four, my godmom told me no on something I wanted right before a ballet recital. You can guess what happened. I did everything backwards, and more people were taking my pic than their own kids. Though, she never told me no before something important again. Kinda won on that one.

Then there was the time I was in gymnastics and I told all the other kids to go home, because the teacher didn't need them since I was there. All the while I was climbing on the monkey bars, out of the teach's reach, and making sure her attention was only on me. Did that for a couple classes actually. What can I say? Even as a kid, kids bothered me.

Of course, I was politely told to please leave ballet, gymnastics, tap dancing, and swimming. They kept referring me back to one that had thrown me out. Ah, well.

Or the time I played Hide and Seek with my godmoms at Disney World, and kinda didn't tell them. Oops. They had everyone in the store looking for me, and security. One of the cashiers found me hiding under the cash register, and told my mom. Apparently I wasn't popped because they were too glad to find me. Though, that was more not having a tantrum and just playing around. Of course, I did that pretty often too.

All this before I was six. And then in the same turn, I was mostly well-behaved in public, unless my parents told me no on something. Most people thought I was adorable and remembered me (positively). I was just spoiled rotten and knew it.

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pfeffermuse
2007-04-09 10:48 pm UTC (link)

Not that I was an exceptionally good kid, but I can only recall throwing two temper tantrums in public.

The first was in a supermarket, over something that AppleJacks was hawking. I badgered and argued, and mom bought them with my promise of eating the cereal. The punishment fit the crime, as AppleJacks has to be the worst-tasting cereal in the history of breakfast foods.

The second was in a department store. When my mother went to strike me, I quickly moved out of her way, but not fast enough, as she caught me on the nose. Because of the bloody nose she gave me, she was hysterical and I had to take her home. Guilt is a marvelous deterrent to bad behaviour.

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vzg
2007-04-10 02:39 am UTC (link)

I can only remember one temper tantrum that really got me into trouble, and it wasn't in public. That was the only time I was every grounded, and I thought I wasn't even allowed to leave me room to pee. (Luckily, that was remedied before it became a problem. Thank God I ask a lot of questions.) I'm sure I threw plenty, though. Possibly in public, but more often they probably weren't. My greater offenses were probably just my annoying whining, my screaming when tickled (AND YET NO ONE EVER LEARNED), and my inability to resist hitting my brothers.

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jat_sapphire
2007-04-10 04:15 am UTC (link)

I don't remember throwing tantrums, which isn't to say I never did. My sister hated being confined in high chairs and so forth (what a blessing she grew up before the laws for child-seats in cars), so dining out was pretty dramatic for a few years.

I think I was more of a whiner.

My mom does tell one terribly embarrassing story about me when I was about three or four. She had taken me out to buy shoes, and the store was crowded, so while we were waiting for service, I was running around picking up shoes from low shelves, moving them around, sticking my feet into them and falling off the heels, dropping them and moving on. So Mom picked me up and sat me on her lap, facing outward, her arms around my waist. I reached pathetically out to the passersby and pleaded, "Help! Help me! Help!"

It's a wonder she ever DID take me out of the house again.

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	_rukia 2007-04-10 05:30 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, it's not just you. I never threw tantrums in public, either. Of course, I made up for being a good little girl most of the time by once throwing a tantrum at home that was so loud and hysterical the neighbors ended up calling the cops on my parents, who had to assure the police that no, nobody was killing me, I just wasn't allowed to have cookies before dinner. (Reply to this)(Parent)

queencallipygos
2007-04-10 05:47 pm UTC (link)

I have no idea whether I threw tantrums or not, but just in case -- one day when I was about twelve, and my extended family was out to dinner together, my then-two-year-old cousin threw a huge tantrum and my aunt had to take her out to the car.

Apparently I watched all of this in silence and slowly dawning horror, and then as my aunt was leaving with my cousin, I turned to both my parents and said, "Just in case, I'm sorry."

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	jerel 2007-04-11 10:37 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sure I must have thrown public tantrums. I really can't remember. I can guess what my mother would have done: yanked me by the arm and dragged me out of wherever we were. I also think my mother would know when it was generally a Bad Idea to take me out. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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