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Posted on 07/20/2015 8:42:31 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'It made her shut up which made me happy': Diner owner under fire for yelling at crying toddler defends her actions
The owner of a Maine diner says she's not sorry for yelling at a 2-year-old child for crying in her restaurant because it got the girl to be quiet.
Darla Neugebauer, owner of Marcy's Diner in Portland, is defending her actions after a backlash on social media among people who say they'll never eat at the restaurant again.
She wrote on Facebook that the girl's parents ordered her three full-sized pancakes, but put the plate out of her reach, causing the girl to cry.
After 40 minutes of the noise, Neugebauer said she grew tired of the constant crying and yelled at the toddler to be quiet.
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40 minutes? She yelled at the wrong person.
1) “I won’t control my child.”
2) “I won’t let you control my child.”
3) “My child and I will be in your diner ruining the atmosphere for your paying customers for quite some time.”
4) “If you have a problem with any of this, you are a bad person.”
She actually asked the parents to calm the child. The parents saw nothing wrong with their little “angel” so she let lose.
I’d rather listen to that 40 minutes than one minute of obamatard talking...
Haul off, and knock the kids head off. Works every time.
OOPS! Didn’t mean to post that. Oh Well. Done deal.
Problem is max, they are one in the same. More so if Hillary is talking.
When you are in a restaurant you are in someone else’s house, having an out of control child in someone else’s house is showing great disrespect to them.
They reserve the right to either tell you off or kick you out.
You gotta got to her facebook page and read the comments and then some “Dr. Spock liberal whiny pants” whines and they get shouted down by the decent smart people.
It is awesome!
I never thought of that Grace but I agree. That goes double for Church. I have seen kids really misbehave there and it shocks me that their parents don’t care.
Time was that the owner would not have had to yell at anyone.
Time was that the parents would have had the brains and parenting skills to take the child outside until it calmed down. (or given her a darn pancake)
Time was that this notion of “whatever my child does is them discovering and defining themselves and they should be allowed to do that” would have raised eyebrows (at the very least.)
Time was that this would not have been nationally newsworthy.
Personally, I would have lit into the parents. No point in gently suggesting that they take the child outside. After 40 minutes of allowing their child to scream, it is painfully obvious that the so-called parents would not have taken a gentle suggestion without much huffing and puffing and claiming their progressive right to allow their screaming child to destroy every other patron’s meal.
Yup, I would have started right off with the “lighting into” the parents. Then I would have boxed their meal, told them it was on the house and showed them and their little darling the door.
‘It made her shut up which made me happy’
I can relate.....LOL
One of the adults should have started crying and throwing a tantrum and said it was performance art and a way of expressing themselves.
At our small church on Sunday, the Pastor’s 10 year old boy was asked to do something. He did it but everyone could see the displeasure on his face, the huge pout as he did the task. This is not the first time he has cut up in church. After church, I pulled him aside and explained that making faces like that and pouting, make him look like a baby, embarrassing not just his dad, but himself. He started to pout as I was speaking. He didn’t appreciate when I told him that once again, he looks like a baby. I told his dad afterwards and he was quite pleased that someone else explained the ‘facts’ to the boy.
His six year old sister is prone to crying and tantrums. Seems to me that most of the Africans I’ve met, don’t seem to know how, or care how to discipline their kids. From what the parents have said, they were worried about disciplining their kids for fear of interference from the government before they became citizens.
I remember that. When did parents stop being parents?
She should have pushed the plate closer to the child and see if that would have quieted her down.
“Seems to me that most of the Africans I’ve met, don’t seem to know how, or care how to discipline their kids.”
I have known some Africans and they know how. It has to do with what you said about “fear of interference from the government”. They fear that because in Africa they have seen what a bad government can do.
I believe their fear was more of being deported by a very secular government.
Of course their being from Liberia, until very recently, there has been NO government for years. The borders with Sierra Leone and Guinea are very porous with people just walking across the borders with no checks.
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