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My son acted out at age 6 in a store, after I had filled a HUGE shopping cart with groceries. I apologized to the checkout person and without rancor took him out of the cart and went home without buying a thing. I told him that until he could control his behavior, he could not go shopping with me again and we would try at some future date to see if he had better self-control, because his middos were more important to me than the groceries. As I was walking out with him, the lady behind me yelled, Congratulations, that took guts.”