Ok...here's what I thought at the time. The child wasn't really being naughty, he was being a little boy, but he should have been controlled in some way. A smack wouldn't have been appropriate. Like most of you I thought, and said to my husband, that a child of that age is not difficult to keep occupied, especially when all you are doing yourself is sitting in the waiting room. Reading to him or playing a quiet game of some sort with him would have benefited child, parents, and eveyone else. When I was little and we were anywhere without toys etc, my Mum used to get me doing the expressions game. She used to say "Look angry" or "Look sad" or tired or happy or any of a number of emotions and I had to make the expressions. I loved it.

I was quite annoyed by the threats, particularly the one about the big stick. And yes, jacqui, my thought about the computer was "What on earth has a 2/3 year old got a computer for?"

Kendall...clueless parents were exactly what they were.

Thanks for the comments, I just wanted to see if you guys thought the same as I did

Love Lynne