Watching KARMA whoop a kids behind (wakes up, pregnant, parents, boys)

[SubaruFiend]

So I saw the other thread about kids throwing tantrums in restaurants and it got me to thinking about how I see kids throw tantrums and act like little devils in other settings.......... But instead of discussing what YOU do to try and get them to behave............. Have you ever seen KARMA whoop a kids little behind????

Example: I used to work at the photo department of CompUSA which was sorta by the front of the store and this meant I was stuck behind a U shaped desk/display of cameras. So one day a guy comes in and goes straight to customer service and basically lets his kid run a muck. The lil brat was kicking over displays and running in circles and screaming and the father was standing RIGHT there not doing a darn thing about it. I was seriously starting to get annoyed by him wreaking havoc (since I'd end up being the one that had to clean it all up).........

So as he's running (literally) around this pole that has a little desk kind of built around it I see that he's building momentum and just getting crazier and crazier. Finally he runs FULL BLAST towards this pole (and the desk) and just CLOTHESLINES himself on it (actually he smacked his forehead REALLY hard and went down HARD on his back) ......... of course he starts wailing!!! (Surprise surprise the dad does nothing.)....... and I sat there feeling just a TEENY bit guilty that I actually enjoyed watching him do that to himself. Karma whooped the kids butt and the minute he calmed down he stopped acting like a maniac.

Have you ever seen karma whoop the crap out of an unruly kid???

[Gerania]

Only kinda'. When I'd run around after kids trying my best to keep them in line and things weren't working, a little bit of math sometimes helped: stationary objects, projectiles, that kind of thing.

Sounds like the display should have fallen on dad's head and knocked some sense into him.

[regarese]

LOL. I watched it happen to my own daughter. I took her to church and she was not listening to me at all as we were walking through the parking lot after mass-she was about 2 and a half and I was pregnant. We're Catholic, and these people will run you down trying to get out of there. LOL. I'm holding her hand, she's fighting me, I pick her up, she is fighting me. Now I'm getting really mad and know I'm going to lose my cool when we get to the car. I put her down when she is out of harms way and she trips as she is continuing her tantrum. She scraped up her leg, the "injury" snapped me out of my "You are so going to get it when we get to the car" mode, and I just looked at her and said, "You're lucky God punished you instead of mommy. That's what you get for not behaving at Church."

[cislga]

We were taking an evening walk on the beach. I had my friend's two boys with me. My son was chasing the younger one around and was being annoying. I told my son to knock it off. I looked down on the sand and there was a dead crab skeleton. My son had a fear of crabs. I picked it up and told the younger boy that he was scared of them and he should show it to him. Sure enough, my son took one look at it and started running away with the younger boy now chasing him. I let it go on for a minute or two before I called them both over and said "Now you know how it feels when someone asks you to stop and they don't." Not very many times in life do you have that instant "life lesson."

[rockinmomma]

I got the Karma Kick in the patootie!!!!

My momma worked nights at the mill and slept most days. My brother and I....okay... Me dragging my brother into it... decided to paint the house. We opened the oil based paint and painted.... there were little white footprints going up and down the brown stairs, there was paint on the carpet, the curtains, pretty much everywhere a 7 & 9 yo can reach. Yeah.... momma wakes up and squashes our artistic vision of what the living room should be. This was the late 70's and we were using oil based paint. Have you ever tried to wash that stuff off? It was everywhere.... including all over us. Hair, between toes, arms, legs... you name it we had paint on it. The only way to get that stuff off is turpintine or kerosene..... on our arms, legs, hair... between our toes. Karma turned us from mini picasos to large red lobsters. That was the day Karma kicked my tail.

[SubaruFiend]

honestly, I believe sometimes when a kid is either running a muck and the parents aren't doing anything OR the parents are TRYING but the kid is possessed by satan that them hurting themselves due to karma is the only way to teach them to knock it off. It usually does a pretty good job. Key word: usually. I have seen some spawn of satan knock themselves down throw a fit about being hurt and then get right back up and go back to the evil doings they were up to.............

[runrgirl]

I wouldn't call it karma. But I refused to put up with tantrum crap when my oldest was starting it around 2 1/2. The whole arching the back screaming thing wasn't going to fly. We were going to get ice cream after the grocery outing if he behaved. Well he didn't. I pulled up into the ice cream store and parked right in front of the window. Left him in the car in his car seat in plain veiw of me (It was right in front of the window). Got my sundae and sat right outside the car in the picnic table and at it. I let him know how good it was when I got back into the car and told him maybe next time he will get ice cream. I did not have anymore problems with tantrums after that. Another thing that worked when he would not behave in the yard and listen was that I got his car seat out of the car and put in in the yard right behind where I was working in the landscaping and strapped him in. He was helpless to do anything but sit there. He tried the screaming crap but I got out the boombox and hiked up the volume and sang. Surprisingly after this he behaved perfectly in the yard and usually obeyed instantly.

[Kathleen1971]

I saw a kid at the mall once running around like a little maniac while his mom yacked on her cell phone. Kids was annoying everyone and eventually decided to start running on top of the fountain where he promptly fell in and not only busted up his chin but knocked a front tooth out as well. Some of us were laughing so loud his mom finally hung up the phone and came over to her little brat. I daresay not a single person there felt one bit bad for either of them. Karma at it's finest.


I also love when brats standing up in their chair's at restraunts inevitably end up falling over backwards onto the hard gound. Serves them just right and since their parent's obviously don't teach them not to do it maybe a busted ass will.

[SubaruFiend]

Originally Posted by runrgirl

I wouldn't call it karma. But I refused to put up with tantrum crap when my oldest was starting it around 2 1/2. The whole arching the back screaming thing wasn't going to fly. We were going to get ice cream after the grocery outing if he behaved. Well he didn't. I pulled up into the ice cream store and parked right in front of the window. Left him in the car in his car seat in plain veiw of me (It was right in front of the window). Got my sundae and sat right outside the car in the picnic table and at it. I let him know how good it was when I got back into the car and told him maybe next time he will get ice cream. I did not have anymore problems with tantrums after that. Another thing that worked when he would not behave in the yard and listen was that I got his car seat out of the car and put in in the yard right behind where I was working in the landscaping and strapped him in. He was helpless to do anything but sit there. He tried the screaming crap but I got out the boombox and hiked up the volume and sang. Surprisingly after this he behaved perfectly in the yard and usually obeyed instantly.

OMG! That is CLASSIC! You've now inspired how I want to base my parenting skills :P

[okpondlady]

When I had trouble with my daughter and took her for councelling (long story). The social worker told me that there is a thing called Natural Consequences. If you don't get dressed and mom takes you to school in your pj's... everyone will make fun of you. Natural Consequences. This is about the same thing.