<p>I agree a child should be allowed to cry if they feel like it.</p>
<p>I don’t think I would ever cry at work or in a public place, but caught off guard, ridiculous commercials sneak up on me.I was very “sensitive” as a child, so my younger brother took it upon himself to “toughen me up”!</p>
<p>“crying is taking lots of … energy out of you. I also feel like I wasted valuable time… for myself”</p>
<p>I once told a psychiatrist that and he wrote something in my chart … .</p>
<p>And about “allowing” a child cry; I can certainly relate to ignoring crying, or even telling a child to go do it somewhere else under certain circumstances, but not “allowing” them cry? How exactly does that work? A trip to the ER? I wonder how the ER staff would react.</p>
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<p>Well it’s not just all about you is it? Your children and grandchildren are not you and may benefit from a good cry and the release of emotion that it brings. I think it borders on child abuse to not allow children to cry.</p>
<p>I think people should be allowed to express or NOT express emotion in ways that work for them. We don’t have to allow ourselves to be manipulated by their tears or any show of emotion, but I feel it is wrong to try to FORBID it. Personally, I have tried to always respect how people chose to express or not express emotion, as we are all so different.</p>
<p>I find it shocking that people would try to not “allow” their child to cry, or to suggest that it is a sign of weakness or whatever. Some people are criers more than others. Probably there are a lot of factors involved. Isn’t it to some extent an involuntary response? Why the need to be judgmental of what others do?</p>
<p>Even the most emotionally strong and go-to type of person can be seen crying. There is nothing wrong with crying when it is appropriate and in the right context (very happy tears are wonderful and sad tears are a good release). I would agree that inappropriate criers are annoying. I think it was Donald Trumps’s show, The Apprentice, that had a crier on, and I just really got tired of seeing it, and had to flip channels. Crying for no reason is definately not one of my favorite traits in a person but crying at a loved ones death bed or the illness of a good friend or the lose of a job or many other situations is normal.</p>