Parenting and attempting to control our children’s behavior at home is hard enough, but shift the family unit out into public and many of us have all trouble figuring out how to communicate with our children without making a scene or losing control of the situation. Some families develop signals to use in public that can make it easy to get the point across without having to have a big argument in the middle of the grocery store. I have known a few families who had a family whistle—a way to round up the family members when they were all … Continue reading →