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If they are too noisy when you take them out to dinner, please don’t do it.

We had a quiet one and a noisy one. We always respected our fellow diners.

Please do the same. The rest of the diners expect and deserve a nice night out. Of course, the restaurant will appreciate your cooperation. Loud children hurt their business.

I was at a restaurant once, where a table near me had one child. VERY unruly.
After NUMEROUS minutes of this going on, I made eye contact with the parents. They had a forlorn look on their faces.

Another few minutes and I gave them the hairy eyeball.

Finally, I got fed up and mentioned to them that "somebody needs a spanking".

THAT sent the "mother" into hysterics.
How dare I tell THEM how to handle their child.

I then calmly told her, that it wasn't the child that needed the beating, but her.

That got dad all suddenly big and brave. He decides to get out of the booth to confront me.

I then advised him that he didn't have the balls to handle his own 4 year old child, that he most definitely didn't have the balls to handle me. And that if was smart, that he'd sit back down and shut up, while he was still able.

To which, the wife grabbed the pants back and announced that they didn't have to take this and that they were leaving.

They stopped at the front and talked to the manager, who seemed to apologize and tell them there was nothing he could do. So they huffily left.

The manager then came by and apologized and took my check. He then brought us out dessert, which we never ordered.

Haha. I wish other people with children took your advice. I was dining out the other day when a woman came in with 2 girls, aged about 5 and 7. They must have been her granddaughters, from her appearance. First they started running all over the place. Then the older one started banging loudly on their table, without a corrective word from the grandmother. Then the younger one grabbed a bunch of plastic tableware from the trays and brought it back to the table. The grandmother admonished her that it was “too much” and to PUT IT BACK. I never saw this kid wash her hands, now she’s handled this tableware and then sticking it back for some unknowing person to use, thinking it’s clean. The two girls constantly whined loudly about this and that, while the grandmother said not one corrective word but only tried to placate them. When the younger one got up and came right up to my table and started staring in my face, she sure got a corrective word from me: It’s not polite to stare at people! Go and sit down! which she promptly did. I don’t think the grandmother earned any points that day from other diners (certainly not from this one!) and she is not doing those kids any favors by allowing this rotten public behavior. Eating out in a restaurant is a privilege; if you don’t act properly, you cannot go to a restaurant.