Posted on 09/19/2024 8:17:33 PM PDT by Morgana
I hardly go anywhere public partly because of out of control kids.
“My mother made me HELP HER kick my ass. ‘Go get the wooden spoon.’”
In our house, it was “the fiddle”. “Go get the fiddle”. It was an old door knocker shaped like a violin made of HARD wood; it never broke. 😒 (I wonder where that thing is now.)
“At least twice a day I catch myself saying ‘I’m SOglad I don’t have kids’”
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Strange thing, my kids never were a problem when they were younger, Eating out, my son at 3 or 4 was so notably polite, our Italian waiter complimented him and my wife and I on how polite he was mentioning it was nice to see children with good manners for a change.
We took a cruise package to Alaska, multiple times we were told how nice it was to see such well behaved children, they were 8 and 6 at the time.
The wife and I correct them, sometimes theres yelling, but overall they are and have been well behaved kiddos.
“The issue of crying babies on planes is a frequent source of conflict...”
Not just crying babies. Parents allowing children to absolutely irritate other passengers without correcting them. I had a small child kicking the back of my seat on a flight. I asked the mother to have the kid stop kicking.
She just smiles, so he kept kicking it. I asked a second time, and she said “he’s just getting rid of energy, he’ll stop.” He continued again, so I got on my knees leaning over the top of my seat and screamed at the little kid - “ I TOLD YOU TO STOP F****G KICKING MY SEAT!”. Mom was shocked, kid was bawling, and the stewardess and passengers were giving me an attaboy...well deserved. I told the mom that is she couldn’t control the kid, then maybe they shouldn’t be flying.
not every space is for children. If I want to go out to an adult only restaurant that should be okay.
When you see a poorly behaved child, look no further than the parents for the cause.
+1
Regarding kids in restaurants, whenever we went out to dinner with the kids, they were given a card with several topics that they were to use to do a restaurant review. They could take notes on the card. Reviewed were ambiance, service, timeliness, food selection and cuisine. When we got home, they would give the family an oral presentation on our evening. It was fun.
Oh, we home schooled for 13 years.
What a great idea. Keeps them busy while waiting for their food.
I always appreciated the restaurants with those placemats for kids that they could color on and the restaurant would provide crayons.
The same kind of concept works for kids while flying. Give them something to do. My kids were voracious readers to taking a book helped.
I agree.
There are plenty of restaurants to take kids to that aren’t high end, fine dining.
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