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Originally posted by aephi alum
I'm all for bringing your kids with you to dinner, even at nice restaurants - IF they can behave properly in public. Plainly, these children were incapable of that, and their parents were incapable of disciplining them. If I'd acted like that I wouldn't have been able to sit down for a week!
Those parents should have arranged for room service and a babysitter for the kids (the hotel did offer babysitting), or staggered their dinner times so that someone could watch the kids, or at a bare minimum, kept the babies in their carriers instead of all over the floor, and told the older kids to sit properly in their seats and not to run around, or they will be taken back to their room (and no dessert!).
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I worked in a nice restaurant many years ago and the owner (an older woman with grown children) refused to get high chairs or booster seats for kids because she felt that they didn't belong in nice restaurants.
My peeve is the "Code of Conduct" at the Mariners games that lists every little thing an adult can't do for fear of being removed (and granted some things on the list deserve removal) and not a thing about the kids that are screaming, talking, kicking your seat, etc.
I would have gotten in SO much trouble (ruler comes to mind) if I had made any kind of scene in a public place when I was a kid. so much of what we were raised on (and made us pretty good adults) is now considered child abuse.........
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