3 Ways To Teach Your Children Good Manners When They Embarrass You In Public
Every parent experiences some embarrassing moments when your child’s behavior shocks you and makes you feel the judgment of onlookers. Maybe you hear your child make a comment to a relative about their weight, or your child goes up to someone outside a coffee shop and tells the smoker, “You’re going to die.”
Perhaps your kid receives a party favor he does not like and tells the host, or your teenager is mopey and sullen at Thanksgiving barely making eye contact with his relatives. These embarrassing moments are not about your parenting abilities — all kids do unpredictable things and have moments when they are rude, cranky or unaware of social expectations.
Here are 3 ways to handle embarrassing moments in parenting whenever your kids throw you for a loop:
1. Problems in public
Try to forget about the judgment of others — and try not to make discipline decisions in the heat of the moment because often your emotional state means you overreact to minor incidents.
Hold back, and wait to discuss the embarrassing incident afterward so you and your child can discuss it calmly.
This is unless you feel there are safety issues involved, or your child’s behavior is escalating.