A puppy-shaped purse. A personal fan. A toy cat that meows like a real cat…because I guess having three cats in your house isn’t enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are all things that my kids have seen while we were running errands in various stores, and they insisted they just had<\/em> to own them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What do I mean by “insisted”? The sales pitch typically starts with whining<\/a>, progresses to pouting<\/a>, and sometimes crescendoes with truly spectacular temper tantrums<\/a>. In those moments, it feels like my child always<\/em> wants to buy something, and I worry that I’m raising entitled kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But thanks to one simple<\/strong> parenting trick, we no longer have to expend Herculean effort to escape a store without our child whining or begging for us to buy something.<\/p>\n\n\n