On Sunday evenings our college group, Illuminate, meets together at 6pm. Every other week Dan has a meeting with his leadership to go over some last minute details of the service. Since Sean is already 2 weeks old, we really wanted our group to meet him. Unfortunately I was going to have to go in early with Dan to church, drop him off then find something to do with my two kiddos for the next 4 hours.
I literally cried and prayed to God for strength. I wasn't necessarily afraid of Sean acting up. It was Madi. She is a 3 year old terror right now.
So I dropped Dan off and I headed over to Target so that we could walk around and then grab some snacks afterwards. Of course I accidentally walked by the aisle marked DANGER (aka Barbie) and I hoped Madi wouldn't see it.
No such luck.
Sure enough she veered right in and picked out the doll she wanted me to buy. I told her no, Daddy said we couldn't buy anything. I told her we could stay for 5 more minutes and then we had to go get a snack and I would need to feed Sean.
Oh my gosh she threw the biggest fit I have ever seen in my life. And why do children feel the need to throw tantrums, big ugly tantrums, in public? Do they purposely want to embarrass us?
So here I am holding hands with a screaming toddler, carrying brother in my carrier and praying no one calls the cops on me thinking that I am stealing an innocent child.
Even after we sat in the snack bar and I offered to buy her a snack to calm her down she was still screaming at me. People were staring at me and giving me dirty looks. I wanted to cry!!!!
After 20 minutes she finally calmed down. But oh my gosh never again. Oh and Target....you really should provide maps for mothers so that we don't have these kinds of episodes in your stores. LOL!
Where has your child thrown their biggest tantrum?
Tiff
P.S. I so should have taken a picture of Madi during her tantrum but I didn't think of that at the time. Heeeee!