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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

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

You dare to impugn the Holy Screaming of our All-Important Lord and Master, the Small Child?! Blasphemer!

(Seriously, what is with the snarky and critical comments you're getting? I agree with you that a restaurant untainted by the screams of small children is both possible and desirable.)

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Well, y'know, people who don't repair cars for a living aren't entitled to criticize a repair job that leaves the brakes completely inoperable. Just like people who aren't doctors aren't allowed to condemn a physician whose patients leave sicker than they arrived.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Ohhh right, *that* kind of "logic".