Kids in restaurants...

[Ec_Prokta]

I don't mind them unless they're loud and run around through out the restaurant.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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Good point and I think this is a huge contributing factor. We have always done this and I have rarely had to call mine down in public because they already have experience at the dinner table.

edited for spelling errors

 

[Southernbelle]

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I agree. I don't take my kids to those kind - just family restaurants. If we want to go to a really nice restaurant, we leave the kids home with a sitter.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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I am one of those "mean" mom's who makes her kids sit at the table and use their manners daily.Some of my friends tell I am not letting kids bc kids bc I expect them to sit with my husband and I, to chew with mouths closed,to use a fork,and if they dont like what we are having then dont eat but you arent being excused from the table until your parents are done.

I keep something they really hate in the fridge an say they have to eat something an there choises are A, whats on there plate or B, whatever was refused last in the fridge.... I am just nasty lol

 

[WriterofWords]

I think well-behaved children should welcome in any restaurant, just like well-behaved adults. The adults annoy me more than the children do.

 

[horsejody]

I don't mind well behaved kids. I can't stand the brats or their parents. It's not just restaurants either. Some parents let their kids act like monsters in grocery stores, movie theaters, anywhere. When my daughter was a waitress and hostess at restaurants she used to tell me how all of the waitresses hated it when middle aged parents with very young children were seated in their stations. She said that the younger parents tended to be more strict and kept the kid in line, and the older parents tended to be more lenient with the kids as they went wild.

 

[saddina]

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More than once i've wanted to bludgeon someone with thier cell phone, for discussing thier unappitizing personal lives loudly at the next table.

 

[WriterofWords]

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More than once i've wanted to bludgeon someone with thier cell phone, for discussing thier unappitizing personal lives loudly at the next table.

Amen!!!

 

[mom'sfolly]

I have children, and I've taken them to a variety of restaurants. I expect them to behave. I have to agree with WoW, its the adults who annoy me. If a kid is running around, shouting, touching other people's tables (this one particularly bugs me), climbing on things and generally acting like a hooligan, it is because some adult thinks it is okay.

It is not cute when your child acts like an un-mannered lout.
The story about how Billy blew milk bubbles out his nose is neither dinner conversation nor anything an nearby table needs to hear.
Your cell phone conversation is not more important than your children's behavior.
In no instance is it appropriate for someone's feet to be on a table.
If your child is screaming because he is overtired, take him home.

 

[OccamsTazer]

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More than once i've wanted to bludgeon someone with thier cell phone, for discussing thier unappitizing personal lives loudly at the next table.

Amen!!!

x2!