i TOTALLY agree with Warchild!!!
This has become the era of non-parenting parents. Just because you had sex & had a kid out of it, does not make you automatically a "parent", btw.
I see kids SCREAMING in the middle of stores "MOMMY I WANT THIS!! GIVE ME THISS!! NOWWW!!"
My mother would have BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF ME IN PUBLIC for not only acting that way (public or not) but also for being selfish AND also for embarressing her.
There is NOTHING wrong with discipline. I know the way I turned out, and I also know what my mother (who was a single parent of 2 daughters, god bless her!) did to achieve that. SHE PUT THE FEAR OF GOD INTO US! Thats all it takes. One time. I never called her bluff after that.