Banning Kids In Restaurants...

[cameron]

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When it became politically incorrect to snatch another persons turd eatin kid up in the store and beat the brakes off em for actin a fool. That's when kids lost their fear of adults. I'm 34 and still scared of anyone over the age of 40!

 

[LilliansMamaw]

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I agree! This thread just starts a lot issues and anger. We do not live in a perfect society. But some opinions should be just that. I feel this thread is very one sided to OP and has a lot of people angry..adding perfume smells, language, cell phones, loud converstions there are many things that upset people when they go out to dine not just children.If we ban everything that upsets us there'll be nothing left.

This thread just keeps getting worse. It seems as though in our society it has become the norm to critisize everyone else and/or their children for all of the ills of society and daily life. Its political correctness run amock! I am not afraid to say this, I am sure I will upset many or be banned or whatever but I can at least understand children and their behavior because they are still learning. What I dont understand are the adults who continue to say all of this mess because they dont have enough emotional control or maturity. Its easier to villify children and act like an a-hole than to be an adult and deal with circumstances that happen in life. Act like an adult and respond like an adult to situations in life instead of all of this temper tantrum stuff.

Agree

 

[justuschickens59]

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I agree! This thread just starts a lot issues and anger. We do not live in a perfect society. But some opinions should be just that. I feel this thread is very one sided to OP and has a lot of people angry..adding perfume smells, language, cell phones, loud converstions there are many things that upset people when they go out to dine not just children.If we ban everything that upsets us there'll be nothing left.

This thread just keeps getting worse. It seems as though in our society it has become the norm to critisize everyone else and/or their children for all of the ills of society and daily life. Its political correctness run amock! I am not afraid to say this, I am sure I will upset many or be banned or whatever but I can at least understand children and their behavior because they are still learning. What I dont understand are the adults who continue to say all of this mess because they dont have enough emotional control or maturity. Its easier to villify children and act like an a-hole than to be an adult and deal with circumstances that happen in life. Act like an adult and respond like an adult to situations in life instead of all of this temper tantrum stuff.

No temper tantrum here. I just believe there is a time and a place for everything and everybody - a nice, expensive restaurant is NOT the place for children if the parents are unwilling/unable to teach them good manners and acceptable behavior.

 

[Ec_Prokta]

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When it became politically incorrect to snatch another persons turd eatin kid up in the store and beat the brakes off em for actin a fool. That's when kids lost their fear of adults. I'm 34 and still scared of anyone over the age of 40!

Sir, with all due respect, isn't that rather extreme?

Regarding the topic at hand, yes it is incredibly rude and annoying, but I've learned to put up with it.

 

[chickendiva25]

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When it became politically incorrect to snatch another persons turd eatin kid up in the store and beat the brakes off em for actin a fool. That's when kids lost their fear of adults. I'm 34 and still scared of anyone over the age of 40!

Regarding the topic at hand, yes it is incredibly rude and annoying, but I've learned to put up with it.

Same here. With four younger siblings, and several friends who have like four or five toddlers in their family, you eventually get used to it

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

HarlansHollowFarms wrote:
At what point did we have to start tolerating everyone's unruly children?

Exactly

you eventually get used to it

Some people may "get used to it" but it is very annoying to (by the looks of this thread) quite a few people

Steve​

 

[ranchhand]

I'm not going to really dive in, but I can promise you that Harlan's granchildren are very exceptional at behaving well in restaurants. Yes, the wiggle, they got bored. But they do not disrupt the table at which they are seated, much less anyone else's. One quiet word from Mom or Grandma and they get right back to being polite kids.

I think the point is that it's too bad that not all kids are taught early on to behave in a public setting, such as a nice restaurant. I've left a few restaurants and stores because the kids were just too much to take. Sometimes it's the adults that drive me away!

She knows what she's talking about and I think we're all allowed to vent as long as it's not in a contentious manner. She relayed info she'd found and then her personal experience.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

Babies and small children make my skin crawl on a good day, but I think there are more fair and effective ways to do things. Ie. Tell anyone displaying poor behavior to leave your establishment. Course, if they did that at Wal-mart, the entire store would be empty. So many kids running into and bouncing off adults unrelated to them. Literally bouncing. But yeah, a more general rule like that would let quiet children try new culinary experiences while keeping the screaming babies out of R rated movies (which just boggles my mind why they are there to begin with...), but also the annoyingly loud cell phone talker at the library.

 

[Mrs. Cannon]

That would be wonderful!

When I was a server, when people would bring there kids in- most were we behaved, we had no problem with them- and they were unruly, we would do some serious arguing over who would take them. Then of course complain about the kids the whole time

Sometimes the parents would at least try and control them, but the ones that didnt..... oh boy they drove me nuts.
One time I was the lucky one who got the table of parents who came in ordered drinks with there kids, and then went outside and did drugs in the car WITH THE CHILDREN, im talking 3-5 year olds. And came back in like nothing was wrong. Yes the police were promptly called. Needless to say I didnt get a tip

 

[gritsar]

Didn't read all the replies. Did catch a hint of "learning to put up with it" or "used to it". IMO, that's a big part of what's wrong with society nowadays. We've become used to putting up with rude and inappropriate behavior. Or - in the case of the rude person, they feel they have the right to act anyway they feel like and if other people don't like it, too bad. Manners are a lost art.

Reminds me of SD#2. Goes to walmart in our buckle of the bible belt town, with her poured on jeans and purple hair, acting the fool; then complains that people stare and are rude to her.

To the OP topic - I think the restaurant owners might be on to something. As a matter of fact it gives me an idea. No children hours at walmart. We shop late at night, 10 PM or later, and still have to put up with screaming and rambunctious kids! I guess reasonable bedtimes for children are a thing of the past too.