If you have young kids aged fetus to 12 years old, here's a simple idea...
Shut your kids up! I work retail and nothing irritates me more than hearing your screaming little kids for an hour.
If your kid won't shut up please take them outside and beat them senseless until they stop. No one cares about how cute or cuddly your kid is, they want them to shut up.
Give them a pacifier or a swift smack across the face, depending on their age.
It should be legal to smack parents that won't control their kids when they're in public. A department store is not your house, either shut your kids up or leave the store.
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I had to deal with a screaming kid (for an hour) and the kid's oblivious or obnoxious parent today. I told the kid in a calm voice that this wasn't a screaming contest. Some customers and other employees had enough of the screaming kid and the parents. The father said, 'I'm buying a $700 camera my kid can do what she wants.' (or something to that effect) to me.
About 10 minutes later the dad came to me in the camera dept. The dad blew up and cussed me out and threatened to punch me in full view of other customers and the video camera. Thankfully my store manager calmed him down. Hopefully he'll never be back again. THe parents stood oblivious or they didn't care, about their daughter screaming at the top of her lungs every few minutes for an hour as they bought a camera.
If he would've laid a hand on me after threatening to punch me, I would've owned his whole house and car.
Hopefully he'll never be back.
This is a warning to you folks with kids. Shut your kids up!