''Discipline'' the child when parents are there ?

[Inspired by Reggio]

Oh wow ~ that totally sucks Disney ... I personally would not let the experience stop me from standing up for myself ~ if she feels the need to terminate because you are now going to be expecting socially acceptable behavior from her child than it is time for them to go ... just because a behaviour is a 'developmentally appropriate' does not mean that we need to CONDONE it because it is not socially acceptable behaviour to express yourself by SCREAMING AND CRYING!

I will admit that this is the one of the reasons why I do not allow behavior like that to 'start' in the first place because if you allow it to start without addressing it with a client you sort of reach that point of no return with clients where when you finally DO stand up for yourself that they get MAD because from their perspective you are now 'reneging' on some agreement you had at least in their mind that this was allowable and now suddenly it is not ... they feel like they are getting ripped off by having new expectations thrust upon them and so forth

Even when the behavior is so totally socially unacceptable ~ I have seen cases of poor providers where a client who was constantly bouncing checks, being late with payments and so forth doing things no 'business' would have tolerated and the provider finally stood up and the client tried to BLAME THE PROVIDER for being unreasonable ... some people just have such a very skewed sense of 'entitlement' it is sad!