Where's the worst place your child has thrown a huge fit at?

roses25

Okay, I need to vent a bit about our day. I took Aiden shopping today for fall/winter clothes, and I have him try on the clothes in the store because we live far enough away from any stores that it's not that easy to go back and return the items.

So I picked out 5 pairs of pants for Aiden to try on at Old Navy and went to the quick dressing room. Oh, my gosh....he threw a 10 minute fit over having to try on the pants because the tags were bothering him. He was screaming and crying at the top of his lungs, trying to hit and scratch me as I was trying to put the pants on him. That's one of the worst fits he's ever thrown, and I'm sure everyone was wondering what the heck was going on. He's usually pretty happy and not a fit thrower, but wow did he throw one today! So what's your child's worst fit at a public place?

Carolyn

mel

My kids rarely have tantrums but we leave QUICKLY if they do! The most recent was at the children's museum, at the outdoor water tables. One of my daughters didn't want to go back inside the museum, but it was 100 degrees outside, we'd been out there for a long time, they were closing soon and we hadn't seen everything, and even the other kids were saying it was too hot. She was crying and saying "no!" and not listening to any reason of course, so I had to pick her up and carry her inside while she wailed. As soon as we went through the door, she was fine. She's done the same thing at a shoe store, when she wanted to drive the Cozy Coupe they keep inside, though I don't let my kids because they will inevitably argue over it. We just leave.

Katydid

The most embarrassing one was when my oldest was two at Babies R Us. I was just running in for one thing so I carried the baby and held the two year old's hand. As we passed the soap/ shampoo isle he began to throw a fit over Elmo bubble bath. He was down on the ground screaming and ended up kicking a lot of the bottles on the bottom shelf off. I felt so helpless. I grabbed him up the best that I could and carried them both out of the store leaving the mess behind. He continued to kick and scream to the point that he was practically upside down and I could barely hold him. You can imagine how it looked as I finally got outside. I had to set him on the pavement and sqeeze him between my legs to free a hand to get the car open. I went straight to my sister's house and cried. My disclaimer is that this was about six months after he came to live with me as a foster child, and he was a mess when he came. We had worked with a play therapist twice a week, and I thought that those fits were history!

Kari

Restaurants are usually the place for our temper tantrums. Justin doesn't want to sit and ends up making it difficult for us all. Last time it happened, my dad took him to the truck and let him play in the truck's bed while we (hurriedly) finished our meal. Another time he pitched a fit at McDonald's where there was an indoor play area, and within a few hours developed a fever, so he hadn't been feeling well.

Another popular spot is at daycare when I'm there to pick him up. Before Juliet started going to daycare, he would refuse to come home with me and kick and thrash around when I tried to pick him up. When I was in the late stages of pregnancy, different caregivers would rotate carrying him off the playground and to my car (aka "getting kicked") so I didn't endure a blow to the belly. After Juliet started coming to daycare, he insists on coming in with me when I pick her up, but misbehaves in the baby room and often has to be removed. That leads to kicking the door while wailing to be let back in.

And, of course, there are the home tantrums over everything . . . . I think the worst was when he couldn't get his shoes on, so he threw them across the floor. I took them and put them in the car, then loaded him into the car without shoes, screaming and bucking. It took a good five minutes to get the seatbelt on him! Then he kicked the DVD player, so I had to undo that. It was quite a scene that, fortunately, no one got to witness but me!

Zen

Shiloh gets cranky when she's over-tired and I see the warning signs so I can usually head off tantrums. But two weeks ago at swim class ... she decided she did not want to get out of the pool. She didn't like anything about the class and had screamed through most of the 30 minutes ... but now that it was time to leave she didn't want to. After trying reason and cajoling, I finally just reached in and picked her up. And then carried my child, kicking and screaming, to the ladies room to change clothes. I was so happy the place was empty so no one could hear her shrieks of "no mommy stop you're hurting me!" as I towel dried her hair and stuffed her back into dry clothes. I left the ladies room to find 5 lifeguards standing just outside the door in horror. I half expected police to show up any minute!

annerbones

Not the most embarassing, but ones I would like to stop soon - the frigging carseat and getting in and out of the car. I can do it myself, Ahhhh! I count to 5 or 10 to let her try but then I end up.doing most of it.

Always reminds me of a picture Kari posted about getting kids in the carseat.

babymakes3

When he was younger he had a bad tantrum in my brother's church as he was preaching. Recently at Lego land and at a bike race event. Ugh. I hate it. I was so pissed at the last one I grounded him for a month. A 7 yr old kicking, screaming, and then he threw a rock at the Porta potty I was in While his friends watched. They happen less and less as he gets older. So sorry. I swear I am drained for the rest of,the day after his tantrums

K&H

OMG, anything ever having to do with the Cozy Coupe. Anywhere, anytime, any people.. doesn't matter. That thing is her trigger item, I swear!

Shaeley Mae

One time ... at band camp .....
Oh, wrong story. Sorry.

One time, at the beach, when I was 35 weeks pregnant ..... I was overheating and feeling faint and lightheaded, so I packed up and broke the news to Lilianna that we were "going to get lunch". Hoping that "getting lunch" would be more acceptable than "leaving", I proceeded to grab her hand and escort her off the crowded beach. The situation quickly turned into a spectacle of my beach bag toting shoulders, my beluga belly, and a screaming, limb-flailing toddler, shuffling off the beach. I'm quite certain that EVERYONE on the beach was mumbling "thank God that's not me".

Shanny

Thankfully K isn't a huge tantrum thrower, the big ones every one is describing I can count on one hand for sure. A certainly is though she seems to save them for home most of the time. The ones that kill me are at work - not the middle of the day, we're all hanging out at home ones - but the "my boss just walked in the door, I am trying to communicate about the day, all the kids are tired and done (as are the adults)" - and K chooses that moment to lose her friggin marbles! I usually just grab her and walk out but I always have to wonder if my bosses question the way I handle my own kid since I am helping to raise theirs!

Lindsay

Lily doesn't have many but she always seems to have them at my parents on the rare occasions we are there And my parents always have something to say about it too ....

wasnervouswreck

My daughter once went postal on the public bus. It was aweful and what made it worse is that this man came up to her and started screaming at me and her telling me how disrespectful I was for not shutting her up.I would have walked but it was two miles , in July and in Phoenix. Obviously that made things much worse. My reaction was psychotic to say the least.

babybaby

church. she also throws them frequently at the grocery store, though.

Ibelieve

The grocery store because he doesn't want to go into the buggy or after we have been playing somewhere and he doesn't want to come home. He doesn't normally get too loud but he does like to kick his shoes and socks off to prove a point. Lol

Lauran

The three that come to mind are:

1)Party City. I purposely went in without any money because I didn't want to buy anything, and he didn't understand why he couldn't have this little blue car he found. You better believe he didn't get the car after behaving that way, even though there was money in my car I could have gotten.

2)Parking lot of a chiropractor's office, where my mom was meeting me so he could spend the night with her. He got it in his head that he wasn't going with her, period. It was a struggle, but we eventually got him in the car seat and he went with her.

3)Grocery store. To be fair, it was my Wednesday trip where I usually hit two stores (when the sales ads come out and I've done my coupon matchups lol). This was the second store. I had let him get something out of the Evil Toy and Candy Machines By the Exit at the first store, and by the time we got to the second store, he couldn't find it. TOTAL MELTDOWN. Luckily this was my most favorite store where everyone is always so nice--and they didn't disappoint. The manager, a lady from the bakery, and another worker all came over and with all that attention, he calmed down pretty quickly.

jenoglv

I wasn't too excited about being stuck on a plane with an over-tired 18mo old while sitting next to a pretty famous NHL goalie.