QUOTE: Children are children and they only get to be babies for so long YES rules are VERY important but I am not leaving a resturant for anybody just because my child gets upset, that said my child rarely shows her self when we are out, but it happens from time time but NEVER would I leave to accomadate others. Shes a child a human and they deserve to be there just like anyone else.
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If your children behaved the way the ones I'm talking about did ---( I doubt they would) -- I don't think you would have wanted to stay in the restaurant with them. These little guys were not "restaurant-ready." There were three of them - the oldest about 4. They were "screaming and fighting" - "crawling over their parents" - "threw the menus on the floor" -"were pushing their food away and refusing to eat it," "putting it on other plates or the table," - "spilling their drinks" - etc.
But - it was the (more than 20 minutes) of constant fighting and screaming that bothered the other customers most. No one in the restaurant could visit or enjoy their meal at all.
Honestly - I think "most of us" would have just left with our children if they were behaving that way. Don't you realize that this behavior reflects more on the parents than it does on the children?????
And - if these people had "refused to go" --- Many of the other customers would have left to go where they could sit down, visit, and enjoy their meal.
And - they would probably never have returned to this "nice restaurant." This isn't right....
***** This was a "brunch place" -- and there were a lot of other children in the restaurant......acting like little children..which is fine..... I agree that "children are children." These children didn't bother anyone. But this one family was the worst I've ever seen in my life! It was unbelieveable!
And - please remember - this was not one child. There were three. And, this wasn't a little temporary little fit these children were having. It had gone on for almost half an hour and was, if anything, getting worse.
I'll bet if you (and your children had been there) -- you would have been appalled at this family like everyone else was. And, you would have probably wished you and your family had gone someplace else too.
I know if these people hadn't left -- a lot of other customers would have. I don't think this would have been fair to them - and certainly not fair to this "nice restaurant."
**** I'll bet most of you feel the way I do -- within reason, our children have to behave in public - or we will just take them home. I would have been embarrassed.
Carol Jean |