I used to think lots of things all the time, that my children would do things other children don't but then you see it later on or hear about it - they all have their phases!

The best way I bust out of things like that is to say before we get somewhere, 'If you act like this / do this etc, then we will go straight home,' and I keep to my word. They quickly get the message that that is the course of action. Sometimes it sucks because I don't want to leave, but I have to be consistent for it to work.

I would avoid restaurants like the plague as Marisa would crawl on the floor and run the biggest muck you would imagine. But before we went out and I would reiterate it on the way, that we'd leave at any sign of crawling on the floor etc.