Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
Yes, rosa and SiouzQ, it's all in the training. I'm going to brag about my own kids... when they were 3 and 5 we were driving around after church hungry, and we came across what looked like a family-friendly place to get a bite for breakfast. Well, when we got inside it was a very quiet, white-tablecloth/white gloved server type of place. But we were too hungry to back out.

We had a very nice breakfast. When we got up to leave, the maitre d stopped us on the way out and said to DH, "Sir, I must commend you on the behavior of your children. Normally we have to batten down the hatches when we see children come in here."

The maitre d didn't know that we had intentionally sat one boy on each side of DH, so that the minute they started acting up, DH would give them a "reminder" pinch on the underside of their thighs and that was enough to stop them, without having to verbally check them.
That’s a nice story Catherine but I don’t expect little boys that age to sit still and be “good” so bless them for doing that.

There used to be a woman on this forum who had two boys, and she ran them like dogs. This woman wanted to start a healthy candy shop. does anyone remember her? Anyway, the lesson about kids I learned from her is that she dedicated her daily life to getting her boys exercised.

I remember she talked about most days planning a morning physical activity and an afternoon physical activity. She recognized the reality of her children being children and needing to use their bodies to develop their minds.

By “ running like dogs” I mean that in a practical way not prejoritively. You exercise your dogs for their own good. You exercise your children for their own good.