Warborg;4454996; said:
As a new 'kid screaming parent' I'm on both sides of the fence. I get embarrassed when my daughter screams a try to get her to stop(she's only 16 months old), but it's hard.
It does piss me off with the parents that ignore their screaming 5 year old
A trick we used, when our kids were under 2, when we went grocery shopping was to stop at the bakery section and get the kids a cookie. That kept them quiet for about 20 minutes. With a little practice we could get most of what we needed in less time than that. Occasionally we would have to go back at a later time to get the rest.
My kids are 5 and 7 now. When we go out and they start to act up, all it usually takes is a look from me or my wife and they know what it means -- they stop. If they don't, we take them outside.
When I was a kid flying in a plane was torture. My ears hurt like crazy when we came in for a landing. I remember screaming on the floor of the plane from the plane. The pressure wouldn't equalize. When we fly now, we tickle the kids as we start to land. The kids laughter causes the pressure to equalize and laughter is infectious. People all over the plane are looking trying to figure out what is so funny, most are smiling. When we get off the plane lots of people come up to us to say how nice it was to hear kids laughing instead of screaming on the plane.