EVERY parent has had to deal with a public meltdown at some point.

But one mum-of-three snapped "the perfect advert for birth control" – after one of her sons threw a strop in the CONTRACEPTIVES aisle while they were out shopping.

Daniela Taylor, from Helston, Cornwall, had popped into Superdrug to buy some hay fever medicine for four-year-old son Thomas, when he started to sulk.

Miffed that his older brother had been the one allowed to go and find a shop assistant to help them, Thomas stomped into a corner next to shelves displaying the shop's range of condoms and pregnancy tests.

Daniela, 41, snapped the moment Thomas stood with his back to her and his arms angrily folded – and says she looks forward to showing him the photo on his 18th birthday.

Daniela, whose partner Steven Hahn, 40, is currently deployed in the Armed Forces, said: "I'd picked the boys up from school and it was really hot and Thomas needed an antihistamine for his hay fever.

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"I asked his brother to go and find the shop assistant and the next thing I knew, Thomas had stomped off into the corner because he wasn't allowed to be the one to go and look for the shop lady.

"He chose that particular corner to go and have his sulk and I just thought it was perfect. I spotted the condoms straightaway which made me chuckle.

"Then I looked across and on opposite side were shelves and shelves of pregnancy tests. He couldn't have picked a better spot to have his tantrum.

"It really was like a perfect advert for birth control. I sent it to friends straightaway and said: 'Isn't this a great bit of motivation to use contraception?'"

Fortunately the tantrum ran its course quickly – and trainee teaching assistant Daniela is now looking forward to making her son cringe at his antics in the future.

She explained: "He's normally a really good little boy. His strop only lasted a few minutes and by the time we were paying at the till he was chatting away, happy as Larry.

"But when he does have a sulk, they really are perfect. He folds his arms, sticks his bottom lip out and really stomps around. He's fantastic at it. I can't wait to show him the photo to embarrass him when he's older, maybe on his 18th birthday."

Daniela, who is also mum to 17-year-old Josh and 11-year-old Connor, said: "I sent the photo to Steven as he is deployed at the moment on a ship, goodness knows where. He hasn't actually seen the photo yet but I sent it and said his son was taking after him with his sulking!

"It will be hilarious when we can show the photo to Thomas when he grows up. Josh found it highly amusing as well, but I didn't really want to go there with the little ones."

She added: "I think I captured a really amusing advert for parenting in general and I think lots of other parents will be able to relate."

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