BoSox
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A screaming child in FC gives maybe some pleasure to the parent(s), but diminishes the pleasure of others.
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A screaming child NEVER gives pleasure to the parents. TRUST me on this one.

If you read many of the stories, you find that most problems are caused not by the children, but by the breeders.

Keeping a child from going beserk is not hard - but it does require attention. This weekend when we drove the 2 hours to visit my mom, the girls fell asleep pretty quickly, but Patrick was wide awake and starting to get irritable.

So to keep Patrick quiet, we sang... and sang... and sang... and sang... and sang...

While singing the Winnie the Pooh song is fun and cute, after 90 minutes of singing, you want fly down to Disney World and detonate an atomic weapon.

However Patrick was fine for the trip, and we had a scream-free ride.

Were this trip on a plane, who's to say whether this would have worked, but have a little sympathy for the parents who are trying their best to keep the child entertained. As any parent will tell you, the term "control your child" is a joke. You can't control children, you can only hope to redirect them, and despite our best efforts, that doesn't always work.


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