From the look of this thread we may as well go the whole Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang route and just ban children altogether.
Visit sunny Vulgaria! I hear the castle has a good floor show.
It seems that young parents don’t realize that the way you train them to behave IN the home is the way they will behave outside the home.
Kids LOve play and roll acting. Have practice sessions in your house where they are the customer and you are the service person. Like a tea party where they are the customer and the parent is the wait person. They get to learn the process of how to act in a restaurant. Make sure they have a menu of available food selections and beverages to choose from..
It’s easy for kids to learn good behavior. In fact, you can teach them right at the dinner table.
There is no need for children to act out of control, but I don’t think young, new parents really know how to kindly, respectfully train .
That said, this old lady deeply appreciated kid free zones. But I also don’t mind well behaved, polite, considerate children. In fact, I love those kind of kids, but they’re a rare find.
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