I agree with u ladies on raising ur kids with discipline! For me, I've never had to spank aiden besides ONE time he got a swat on his bottom for running into the busy road out of no where! Omg it scared me shitless and I had his hand one sec and the next he took off! I was more scared than anything and wanted to scare him out of going back into the rd! Lol but overall, as long as u have a set routine and choirs (depending on the age of course) and just simply teaching them right from wrong goes a long way. At times, yes it certainly can be hard disciplining a child when its your own child BUT neverrrr would aiden act that way in public or at school! He was raised with LOTS of manors and respect

I'm proud of him. I noticed a GIANT change in the way he acted when I was able to get him on a solid routine. To me, routine and sticking to that routine seems to go a very long way when rasing a child. At first it was hard because of his dad and grandmother not following my routine but a yr before he started school I got him on a great routine & his teachers say hes doing great

He acts up like any kid but hes veryy respectful at all times. I'm very strict on that!
Jess, Aiden actually had a boy hitting him on the play ground AFTER school and the kids parents weren't around anywhere and I shouldn't be the one scolding their kid, they should be!! And like u said, I hear the mom say "lets go, we're going to go get ice cream" right after I find her and tell her what had just happened. Uh it made me mad.
Chelsea, that's ridiculous! Where the heck were the parents?! Id never ever leave Aiden in a fricken bank unsupervised! And the fact that if the girl got out of the bank, it would have been a very dangerous area and I know being a mother myself, I ALWAYS take into consideration my surroundings JUST to keep Aiden safe. Thank god nothing happened to that child! Its really the parents fault on how the kids act :-\.
There's alot of parents out there slacking and by giving a kid everything they want, its just going to make things worse for their future...they'll always be expecting things rather than be happy when good things come, u know? I'm not saying it's not okay to ever spoil your child, go ahead spoil away but make it an occasional thing or else they start to have trouble dealing with "the real world". I went through this with aiden when he was 4 because of his dad & gram and thankfully (for me & for Aidens teachers (lol)), I set new boundary's and I SWEAR the less time aiden spent with them and the more time he spent with me, the better he got! I was wishing I didn't allow him to go visit as much from the beginning but I really wanted him to have his dad

but that's never going to happen and I actually would like it to stay that way now since its not affecting him that hes gone this time. His dad would be here every other yr all his life but Aidens gram (who his father lived with) would ask to take him for a couple days here and there and he was suppose to spend time with his dad in that time but of course that didn't happen much, I later found that out. Alright I got completely off track and could go on forever and dont even know where I'm going with this now! Lol
What i was saying was, yes I strongly agree with u ladies, children should not be acting like.that without consequences! Lol there's my book (I can actually see the screen today! My headaches not half as bad! Yay!)