There was a petition in North Carolina for child-free restaurants. People have become so annoyed with bratty children that they compare eating with children worse than eating with a smoker. People have been blogging and writing into news agencies stating that they would rather dine with a mangy mutt then with your little cretins - even going as far to say that dogs smell better and are cuter! I agree do you?
2006-09-23 04:04:48 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Not all kids are bratty, and to those parents, I applaud you.
HOWEVER, there are kids that parents do not control well enough. This message is to YOU:
-Leave the dam things at home or instill some control over your heathens. I know all kids have their "moments", but these are not your kids. Your kids "moments" are indefinite. Your kids haven't listened to a word you've said since forever. You have zero control, and you should be banned from public with your kids until you can gain some control over your brats. You better start now, or else you're going to be in WAY over your head when these brats are teens.
I do not agree with the state taking control and installing laws over this matter. Restaurant managers and owners need to take the bull by the horns, and ask people to leave who cannot control their brats and disrupt the dinning experience of others.
2006-09-23 05:20:16 · answer #1 · answered by Manny 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think that if parents cannot control their children, then they need to wait until their children are a little older to attempt to take them to a restaurant. I can see some restaurants having a "no children" policy, but I think some of those restaurants would lose quite a bit of business. These child-haters that would rather dine with a mangy, smelly dog or a smoker instead of children should stay out of "family restaurants", then too. THEY should make a "no child-hater" policy. See anything wrong with THIS picture? Maybe a violation of Constitutional rights? Well, works the same the other way. People just need to control their kids. And if they don't and the kids become "bratty" and unruly, then the restaurant should reserve the right to ask the parents and their kids to leave. My kids went everywhere with me. They were GOOD kids. (They are 15 and 12 now). You can't punish ALL the families with children, because not ALL children are bad.
Leaving a child at home to go to a rastaurant is just wrong.
2006-09-23 04:27:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that children should be allowed anywhere there parents are allowed. Now having said that there are a few times when kids should not be somewhere. if you are at a nice resturant and you know that your children can not sit long periods of time then you should leave them at home. However not all children smell but all dogs do! I have a two year old that I do not take to nice resturants should I go to one. I know he can not sit still or be very quite and he isn't supposed to! I feel trying to make a law outta this will cause such an uproar. I mean a law banning kids...really that has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. You see what this world is coming to when poeple are so snobby they dont want children in resturants?
2006-09-23 04:31:00 · answer #3 · answered by tweedy778 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem isn't with children or with the restaurants - It's with the parents. If a parent cannot maintain proper discipline of their children, they should have the common decency not to bring their child into nice social settings.
There are, however, still some parents out there who do maintain proper discipline inside the home and out, and these children/parents should not be punished for a shortcoming of our culture. Plus these children will never learn further about social graces without having been exposed.
I definitely am not for "child-free" restaurants (and I am not even a parent). But perhaps nicer restaurants could have a "family" section separate from the area for couples and those without children, so that everyone can have an enjoyable meal.
2006-09-23 04:46:03 · answer #4 · answered by JenV 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
While I agree there is little in the world more annoying than hearing a child scream for attention or just to see the reaction of others while the parent seems oblivious to it, there are reasons for tolerating it - to a point.
* Children will never learn social skills if never taken into social settings. The child will eventually see that the attention he's getting tends to be unanimously negative.
* Parents need to teach manners where manners count. That means exposing them to the public. Perhaps these bratty children are in public for the first time.
* Parents of bratty children need to get out of their homes - even with these brats in tow - so the constant sound of the child is not contained in the confines of their small home.
* Parents may actually be crying out for attention, themselves - letting their misbehaving child do the attention getting.
* McDonald's has made a huge effort to appease the loud child with the addition of an inescapable playground so parents can eat and talk in peace - while the child runs, jumps, yells, screams and plays.
Perhaps we need more restaurants of better quality to follow the example McDonald started. Children are, after all, just children. They can't be expected to be miniature adults all the time.
2006-09-23 04:15:32 · answer #5 · answered by north79004487 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't go to a restaurant that didn't allow my children to be with me!!! I don't think I've ever heard anything so offensive!!!
What kind of person even thinks about treating children like this??? Good Lord! I just wouldn't spend my money at a place that believed this way!
However...I have 3 children & I've taken them out to eat & they were absolutely out of control. I was SO embarrased I could have died!!! Throwing food, arguing with me & each other, crawling under the table & then all over the restaurant. Then they decided that what they ordered isn't what they really wanted & threw a fit b/c I wouldn't order something else.
Well I made a point to put an end to this!!!! The next week, after they were done w/ homework & all, I told them I was going out to eat. Well they shuffle to get ready & I stopped them. I told them they wouldn't be going w/ me this time or for the next couple of times I wanted to go out to eat. They were just shocked! Begging me to let them go & asking why they couldn't. I told them everything they did the last time we all went out & that they wouldn't be going back into the public until I was certain that they would mind their manners. About a month later, I tried taking them with me. They were little angels!!!!! I had to correct them a few times but they knew what would happen if they showed out again.
I agree that people should teach their children manners. Especially when in public b/c you have to be conciderate of other people. I can't enjoy my meal when they are acting like that.
But there is NO way you would ever get me to go to a place that feels like this about children.
What message are you sending by being this cruel? You were a child once. Did people forbid you to eat with them or something?
2006-09-24 21:18:37 · answer #6 · answered by paigenstuff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Parents should PARENT their kids, keep them under control and well mannered. If they do that, there is no reason to leave them home. But such parents are a rare sight these days, so having some child-free restaurants sounds like a good idea. Then people have a choice and are not forced to have somebody's kid running around them yelling while they're trying to have a nice dinner, and families with children could still go to restaurants that allow children. I still think parents should do some real parenting though and not let their kids behave like that in public, especially not in restaurants.
2006-09-23 05:43:15 · answer #7 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No I don't. Children are just little and don't know much.
North Carolina shouldn't make choices for little children... That's
just stupid!! Children can't speak for themselves.
Many people should not compare a smoker or an animal, for that
reason, to a child. That's just insane!
Besides children go through that "bratty" stage and get over it in
about a year.
BTW where do you think that chidren learn most from? The public and the people that surround them....that includes those adults that are burping or talking loudly in the restaurant!
As of that, you might as well say that mentally-challenged people should not go anywhere to right? Or that dogs are allowed in a restaurant, eat in one, slobber in one, bark in one, pee in the restroom or poop!Right..is that what you want? That's absurd!
2006-09-23 04:21:17 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It would be nice if they did but in the defence of those with bratty kids, who the heck will they get to babysit the monsters? Tee hee! & I find that sometimes the parents are as bad as the kids! The rotten apple doesn't fall too far from the gnarly tree...
Hey, they should ban annoying people all together! "Sorry folks, this is a jerk free restaurant!"
2006-09-23 04:15:47 · answer #9 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with others that parents should discipline their children. I live in Italy and this drives me nuts--the kids are allowed to do whatever they want. It is very common to sit in a restaurant and have a 3-year old screaming at the top of his lungs for 30 minutes and the parents pretend it's not even happening. If I would have started this as a kid, my butt would have been black and blue.
I would not go so far as to say "leave your kids at home", except for very formal events, but I do say discipline them, and if they're acting up, take them outside so everyone else doesn't have to put up with them.
2006-09-23 04:31:23 · answer #10 · answered by bandit 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋