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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat to do when your president has a temper tantrum
To anyone going through it currently: this phase will pass. Of course, a crying president demands incredible amounts of attention, and while youre in the thick of it, consumed by this, it may feel like it will never stop, or at least you wont make it out. There are many moments in the small hours where you stare at this crying thing and think wryly: wow, what happened to my life? I think I vaguely remember when it wasnt like this.
The television news I like to think of it as the president monitor, lighting up each time he needs attention has been on what feels like pretty much constantly in our house since 2016, the year that Trump won (and the UK began its own extended period of toddler meltdown). A childs formative years are so precious, and Im sure our children will benefit enormously from all the times Ive said Shhhh, Im watching the president, or occasionally even been forced to momentarily stop watching the president to deliver a behavioural verdict. I know why youre acting up its to get my attention away from the president acting up. Well, it wont work.
Everyone has their parenting gurus as a realist, I follow the Philip Larkin model. And it is typical of the parenting in our house that we, hugely belatedly, started thinking not that we should switch the president monitor off dont be ridiculous! but more along the lines of: should we maybe say something?
Anyway, after a while we did. We said stuff to them like We should probably mention that this isnt normal at least, it didnt used to be. I mean, I know its pretty much all the news youve ever known in your short and possibly already terminally disillusioned lives. But seriously, in the not-all-that-olden times, you could go DAYS without particularly thinking about politics. Longer! Eventually we wondered if saying This isnt normal was even accurate. All our children are under 10. Technically, it was kind of normal.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/06/president-donald-trump-temper-tantrum-meltdown
The television news I like to think of it as the president monitor, lighting up each time he needs attention has been on what feels like pretty much constantly in our house since 2016, the year that Trump won (and the UK began its own extended period of toddler meltdown). A childs formative years are so precious, and Im sure our children will benefit enormously from all the times Ive said Shhhh, Im watching the president, or occasionally even been forced to momentarily stop watching the president to deliver a behavioural verdict. I know why youre acting up its to get my attention away from the president acting up. Well, it wont work.
Everyone has their parenting gurus as a realist, I follow the Philip Larkin model. And it is typical of the parenting in our house that we, hugely belatedly, started thinking not that we should switch the president monitor off dont be ridiculous! but more along the lines of: should we maybe say something?
Anyway, after a while we did. We said stuff to them like We should probably mention that this isnt normal at least, it didnt used to be. I mean, I know its pretty much all the news youve ever known in your short and possibly already terminally disillusioned lives. But seriously, in the not-all-that-olden times, you could go DAYS without particularly thinking about politics. Longer! Eventually we wondered if saying This isnt normal was even accurate. All our children are under 10. Technically, it was kind of normal.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/06/president-donald-trump-temper-tantrum-meltdown
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What to do when your president has a temper tantrum (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2020
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OLDMDDEM
(1,572 posts)1. Just Yawn
He's a loser and a sucker.
mitch96
(13,895 posts)2. Give him a time out in Gitmo?
a kennedy
(29,655 posts)3. Ya read my mind.....
A TIME OUT.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)4. The best way to deal with a toddler's temper tantrum
is to simply ignore it, unless they are putting themselves in some kind of harm or harm's way. The worst possible thing is to give in, because they learn that's how they get what they want.