In church there something like this: “suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not…”
But this was not a church it was a restaurant.
The word “suffer” in the King James translation did not mean to inflict emotional or physical distress. It meant “allow”, or even “put up with” (having to tote them around to hear the Master); but it did not mean, “allow them to make everyone around them suffer from their bad behavior.”