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How dare they demand that my little prince(ss) behave!
1 posted on 08/15/2006 6:24:17 AM PDT by steve-b
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95% of kids in public behave like heathens, and their parents tune them out. We'll leave a restaurant if we can't be seated away from children, not wanting to find out too late that they might be in the 5% of the well-behaved.


384 posted on 08/15/2006 10:37:47 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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My parents didn't have much of a problem with us when we were kids because they had one simple rule: Act up and we leave. We didn't want to leave because 1)it was fun going out and 2)Leaving meant a meeting with the yardstick.


392 posted on 08/15/2006 10:47:29 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
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All these parents need is a couple of visits from Cesar Milan; really!!


416 posted on 08/15/2006 11:18:21 AM PDT by acoulterfan
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Children should be seen and not heard. As per my father; good enough for me.


438 posted on 08/15/2006 11:42:58 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
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When dining out, if I'm seated in an area with young screeching and/or hyperactive primates, I ask to be moved to the bar section if there is one. I tell my waitperson discretely why I want to move. There are rarely children in the bar. Apparently even those who have children they cant/wont control still want to "protect" them from heinous drinkers. BTW, once I am moved to the bar section, I do not order alcohol in order to occupy a bar seating but not create bar income. This punctuates my point.

If I have already been seated and they park some howler monkeys next to me, I ask to be moved if possible. If not possible and my food has not arrived, I cancel my order and leave.

I find that most restaurants an d wait staff are pretty accommodating and thusly get rewarded .Those that aren't don't get my business.
443 posted on 08/15/2006 11:45:12 AM PDT by WolfRunnerWoman (Communism isn't dead, it's just regrouping)
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I go to Sweet Tomatoes buffet restaurant with family and friends a lot. There are always children there doing their thing. Doesn't bother me one darn bit.

Sweet Tomatoes has the best soup and salad and other food as far as I'm concerned


462 posted on 08/15/2006 12:19:46 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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bump for later


468 posted on 08/15/2006 12:34:57 PM PDT by Drew68
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When clients insisted they couldn't find a sitter for a counseling session . . .

I'd warn them on the phone . . . either they controlled the kid(s) or I controlled the kid(s) or they'd leave.

Usually a 2 year old was in charge of the family.


516 posted on 10/11/2006 12:15:32 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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