As a parent, absolutely fucking not.

As a tired parent who’s been there, just put a tub of ice cream and a spoon in front of them and go get some sleep. The everything in that room needs to be cleaned and repainted anyway, and you can always do that next…year.

If you do, you’re teaching them that sreaming and annoying others works.

Weak bait

First rule of parenting: Give in right away or not at all. If it’s been long enough to type this post, you’re going to have to ignore the screaming for dessert until they fall asleep from exhaustion because if you give in now, all you’ve done is encourage tantrums.

Distract the kid, take em for a walk, talk to them in whispers until they quiet down enough to hear your and then tell them knock knock jokes.

Literally anything that’s not giving them dessert.

Not a chance in hell. Desert should always be earned by either good behavior or special occasion…or whim of the parent, never earned by screaming.

I’m joining in with everyone else. At that age, kids are learning how to socialize. We actively try to teach them that if they say please, they are more likely to get what they ask for, and after a few times of saying please and getting what they what, they keep doing it.

If you say no, and they cry, and they get what they want, then they just discovered a new social skill.

People typically associate children with innocence. Not me. They know exactly what they’re doing, even if they don’t understand why. Those little shits are manipulative as fuck.

they stop screaming for 4 years

Is the ice cream roofied? Coma drugs are the only way a kid stops screaming for 4 whole years.

Does lemmy need this PSA: Don’t roofie your kids, folks. It’s bad for them, mmkay?

Yes if you name them Karen and Kevin.

Least baity linkerbaan post ever

they stop screaming for 4 years

That’s not how children work.

Bait is an art form, and you are no artist.

Some turds don’t float