[Paula O]

A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his badly behaved
3 year-old grandson. It's obvious to her that he has his hands full with the
child screaming for sweets in the candy aisle, cookies in the cookie aisle;
and for junk food, cereal and soda in the other aisles.



Meanwhile, Grandad is working his way around, saying in a controlled
voice, "Easy, William, we won't be long, easy, boy."

Another outburst, and she hears the granddad calmly say, "It's okay,
William, just a couple more minutes and we'll be out of here. Hang in there, boy."



At the checkout, the little terror is throwing items out of the cart, and
Grandad says again in a calm and controlled voice, "William, William, relax buddy, don't
get upset. We'll be home in five minutes; stay cool, William."



Very impressed, the woman goes outside where the grandfather is loading
his groceries and the boy into the car.



She said to the incredibly patient gentleman, "It's none of my business, but you were amazing in there.

I don't know how you did it. That whole time, you kept your composure no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying that things would be okay. A lot of mothers could learn a thing or two from your example.”



Grandad smiled, and the woman said, “William is very lucky to have you as his grandpa."


"Thanks," said the grandfather, "but I'm William.......my gandson's name is Kevin."