Wandered Off
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Message to parents getting louder: No screaming babies allowed! - Parenting on Shine
Good for them. Parents these days seem inclined to let their kids run wild.
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Restaurant bans screaming kids
- Thread starter Wandered Off
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Good for them. Parents these days seem inclined to let their kids run wild.
stillsearching
Member
I think it is great too. It was always my policy that if my children got out of hand we left wherever we were. Kids need to learn that that kind of behavior is not acceptable.
Demonic Kitten
Active Member
I wish more places would do this. A screaming kid not only ruins my meal, but it sets off my anxiety.
Smoke
Done here.
I'll bet it has. I'll check it out next time I'm in the Wilmington area, just because of that policy.
Smoke
Done here.
Obviously. It's the parents who require it. You can't blame the kids.
Quiddity
UndertheInfluenceofGiants
I'm just thinking there are some parents that will be trying to deal with the situation and it still won't be tolerated if it's not dealt with a timely manner.
Smoke
Done here.
Probably. That's as it should be. Somebody's screaming kids should not be allowed to ruin an evening out for a whole restaurant full of people. Obviously, parents can't always control their kids and can't always predict their kids' behavior, but they do have control over whether they keep letting it go on and on. They should pick up the offending child and go outside.
People don't get offended because it happens. They get offended precisely because it's not dealt with in a timely manner -- which means immediately. Some kids are too young to be in a restaurant, some are too tired and cranky, and some are just too spoiled. But barring those three things, most people sympathize with a parent who handles a bad situation properly. It's the ones who don't who ruin your dinner.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Common sense and decency - 1
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Not complaining. There are other places to take kids who aren't quite mature/well-rested/knowledgeable/healthy enough to be polite in a restaurant. 
I had a hard time with an autistic child in public for a LONG time, so I would rarely give public establishments a shot. Time does wonders, though, and now the kids who are in their preteens and older are great in public.
I figured I still have until they're 18 to ruin their lives.
Anyway, good for the restaurant. I'd hope they enforce the rule on rude adults, too.
I had a hard time with an autistic child in public for a LONG time, so I would rarely give public establishments a shot. Time does wonders, though, and now the kids who are in their preteens and older are great in public.
I figured I still have until they're 18 to ruin their lives.
Anyway, good for the restaurant. I'd hope they enforce the rule on rude adults, too.
croak
Trickster
I agree.Anyway, good for the restaurant. I'd hope they enforce the rule on rude adults, too.
Demonic Kitten
Active Member
There is a difference between a well behaved child and a child running around like a mad person. Yes, you are going to have people who do not want kids around them at all, but that is life...something you deal with. When people go out they don't want to sit in a restaurant with kid running wild, screaming or being down right unruly. And yes this even applies to parents who have young kids.
I don't mind being around kids, but not when they are screaming at the top of their lungs. I have anxiety and one of my triggers is a child screaming. When a parent allows their child to run around and be the center of chaos my anxiety sets in. When my anxiety sets in I have a hard time calming down because the urge to hurt the cause of my anxiety that I have to remove myself from the situation. I realize that my case is not the norm, but why should my meal (most of the time it's the only decent meal I've had all day) be ruined? Why should I have to leave when the chaotic child and the uncaring parent are bothering ALMOST EVERYONE IN THE RESTAURANT?
Sorry...just had to get that out of my system.
Skwim
Veteran Member
A couple of years ago I was in a fairly nice restaurant (linen table cloths etc.) that didn't allow children under a certain age--probably seven or eight. I wasn't there long when In came a couple, plus what I assume were the parents of one of them, and their two "under age" children; one a boy about six and a girl of about four. I couldn't hear what they were saying to the host but it was a discussion of some kind. A short time later the host brought the six through the dining area and seated them not far from me. I gotta tell you, I was really dreading the restless squawking and whining common with kids that age, but these children were soo well behaved, at ease, and pleasant it was almost a delight to watch them politely interact with the four adults. In fact, it even added to the evening, knowing that not all children are spoiled beyond redemption. Renews one's faith in the ability of parents to actually parent.
Nerthus
Wanderlust
My parents would never have let me misbehave. I remember my Granny always saying that children "should be seen and not heard", so that has stuck with me.
We had fun with our kids, now all adults, but politeness and respect for others was taken as read.