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[athelind]

Restaurant Says "NO" to Screaming Children

Excerpt the First:

A restaurant in Carolina Beach is stirring up controversy over a couple of signs reading, "Screaming children will not be tolerated."

Excerpt the Second:

"I've never seen a restaurant say, don't bring your screaming kids in here," said Ashley Heflin, who is a mom of two. "You can't help it if your kids scream."

YES. YES, YOU CAN.

You can either pay attention to them -- and that includes "discipline", if need be -- or you can stay the BLEEP home and take care of them.

You can even find a baby sitter, if you just need some out-of-the-house time and a break from parenting.

When I first reacted to this story, hoodahdc said, "Athe is angry about babies."

No, Athe is angry about parents.

Nine times out of ten, when I see some kid screaming its head off in a restaurant or a mall or in my BLEEPing store, the parents are blithely ignoring it and doing their damnedest to hold a conversation over their progeny's howls.

I would, for the record, consider the stereotypical parental brush-off of "not now, dear, Mommy's talking" that is media shorthand for "parental neglect" vastly superior to the parents I see who flat-out ignore their offspring.

So yes. YES. Hooray for Brenda Armes, and I hope beyond hope that she's the harbinger of a trend.

Comments

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

You don't have children, do you? Ever babysat? Ever, yourself, had a temper tantrum and become unreasonable?

I've seen far more irate and unreasonable or just loud and obnoxious adults than I have seen screaming children.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

*DEEEEEP breath* I'm going to try to say this without spewing bitterness:

The fact that I am no longer serving in loco parentis is one of the few positive things to come out of my impending divorce.

[gatewalker.livejournal.com]

Hell of a plus though. But in all fairness, even that one's not so bad in public, it's at home where he gets bad(from my experience which IS thankfully a touch more limited then yours with him).

Now speaking as someone with a sprogling(and I've been around since he was 3, so this very much does count), yeah, I'm in complete agreement. Child won't calm down? You take the child and leave. My other half and I have walked out of restaraunts and other public places when he was too young and too ill behaved.

"No Children Allowed" would be going a bit too far I think, but a notice that management WILL ask you to leave if your child won't calm down? Pefectly fair.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but what's your point?

Yes, adults can behave badly in public.
In restaurants of quality, an adult comporting himself so poorly as to disrupt the dining experience for everyone else will be asked to leave</>.