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<blockquote data-quote="gottaloveem" data-source="post: 152599" data-attributes="member: 1953"><p>We have a sterling silver jewelry store. I always wonder why a mom would bring a toddler into the store while she leisurely shops for a gift, or something for herself. I love the kids, and I have much empathy for the mom trying to do it all, but the kids always end up bored, then the bad behavior starts. Not long ago, we had a little guy in with his mom, he was probably 4 or 5. He was getting bored while mom shopped so he figured out what he could do. What he did, was get all five our charm cases spinning at the same time. :wildone:Mom was unaware till we said something. Silently I am chuckling because it takes mad talent to spin all 5 cases and have them spin at the same time.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/salute.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":salute:" title="salute :salute:" data-shortname=":salute:" /> It looked like a poltergeist was at work. But, I don't want the kids getting hurt, so we tell the mom, "you might want to get him to stop" or we will just tell the kids to stop. We even had a 5 year old girl pull over our Christmas tree we had in the store a couple of years ago. Thank goodness she was OK. We did lose a bunch of ornaments though. It was the same thing, mom was busy shopping.</p><p></p><p>We used to have a toy box in the store. That keeps the hyper/difficult child types occupied for about 5 minutes. The easy child types will play longer, but they would be ok without it, as I have seen many easy child types in the store that can handle it.</p><p></p><p>My boys didn't do well errand running or shopping so I tried to do it without them at night when my hubby was home, or he would come with us. There were many times I had to take them though, and it wasn't fun.</p><p></p><p>We also have a great big bucket of suckers out on the counter, sometimes the mom gives the toddler a sucker while she shops. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/nonono.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":nonono:" title="nonono :nonono:" data-shortname=":nonono:" /> Now the toddler is happy, but we have sticky sucker hands all over our showcases. We are in a downtown area, and we have had one two year old run out the door while mom shopped. That means after the sidewalk, is a road. Yikes.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what is going on in their minds other then they are bored and are too young to understand what is expected from them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gottaloveem, post: 152599, member: 1953"] We have a sterling silver jewelry store. I always wonder why a mom would bring a toddler into the store while she leisurely shops for a gift, or something for herself. I love the kids, and I have much empathy for the mom trying to do it all, but the kids always end up bored, then the bad behavior starts. Not long ago, we had a little guy in with his mom, he was probably 4 or 5. He was getting bored while mom shopped so he figured out what he could do. What he did, was get all five our charm cases spinning at the same time. :wildone:Mom was unaware till we said something. Silently I am chuckling because it takes mad talent to spin all 5 cases and have them spin at the same time.:salute: It looked like a poltergeist was at work. But, I don't want the kids getting hurt, so we tell the mom, "you might want to get him to stop" or we will just tell the kids to stop. We even had a 5 year old girl pull over our Christmas tree we had in the store a couple of years ago. Thank goodness she was OK. We did lose a bunch of ornaments though. It was the same thing, mom was busy shopping. We used to have a toy box in the store. That keeps the hyper/difficult child types occupied for about 5 minutes. The easy child types will play longer, but they would be ok without it, as I have seen many easy child types in the store that can handle it. My boys didn't do well errand running or shopping so I tried to do it without them at night when my hubby was home, or he would come with us. There were many times I had to take them though, and it wasn't fun. We also have a great big bucket of suckers out on the counter, sometimes the mom gives the toddler a sucker while she shops. :nonono: Now the toddler is happy, but we have sticky sucker hands all over our showcases. We are in a downtown area, and we have had one two year old run out the door while mom shopped. That means after the sidewalk, is a road. Yikes. I don't know what is going on in their minds other then they are bored and are too young to understand what is expected from them. [/QUOTE]
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