Another RUDE thing that parents let their kids do...is give the waiter/waitress an order”
Strongly disagree with you. When we are in a family restaurant and there is a children’s menu, once my grandson learned to read he was allowed to order. Children learn by doing. My grandson orders in about one tenth of the time it takes my DIL and then she always changes her mind. We have always let him choose something to take with him to the restaurant to occupy himself. Everyone is much happier this way, including those sitting around us.
“Another RUDE thing that parents let their kids do...is give the waiter/waitress an order” <<
>>” Children learn by doing.”
But, I also remember when the male took care of the order for a lady and certainly the family. There are places for children to learn by doing. Though they are the center of our own universe it is debatable that they share that loft with the wait staff of restaurants. As all things gracious have quite declined, with respect to the graces, we now indulge kids who stammer or bark through a dinner order, usually accompanied with “hold this” and “add that” and “extra this and that” to a grown adult waiter who has to endure it. It’s embarrassing to see, for the sake of the waiter, and is generally disrespectful and demeaning, which often is made clear by the expression on the face of the waiter. In these cases it reflects poorly on the adults permitting it, often seen chuckling through such an unfunny moment.
“Another RUDE thing that parents let their kids do...is give the waiter/waitress an order” <<
>>” Children learn by doing.”
But, I also remember when the male took care of the order for a lady and certainly the family. There are places for children to learn by doing. Though they are the center of our own universe it is debatable that they share that loft with the wait staff of restaurants. As all things gracious have quite declined, with respect to the graces, we now indulge kids who stammer or bark through a dinner order, usually accompanied with “hold this” and “add that” and “extra this and that” to a grown adult waiter who has to endure it. It’s embarrassing to see, for the sake of the waiter, and is generally disrespectful and demeaning, which often is made clear by the expression on the face of the waiter. In these cases it reflects poorly on the adults permitting it, often seen chuckling through such an unfunny moment.