Reply #21: my initial reaction to your post

[KCDem]

is "go to hell, ZW, you obviously don't have children".

Of course, I have no idea how old this "brat" was. If the kid was over the age of, say, 4, then the mother was likely being too permissive, whatever.

But to believe that a mom has magical control over an 18-month old is a completely different story. I have walked through the grocery store with my 18-month-old UPSIDE-DOWN, since she wouldn't allow herself to be carried any other way, and she wouldn't sit in the cart. You do what you have to. You say that too many parents think their kids are in charge... well, between the ages of 1 and 3, unless you either leave the kid at home or strap him down and let him scream the whole time you're at the store, that kid IS in charge for awhile and you have to do what you have to do.

I'm a kiddie-cart lover. Even my new liquor store has them; how great is that?! Only problem there is the kids don't like that I get to taste the samples and they don't. :evilgrin: