I love all the comments about children encroaching on their “rights.” Forget al qaeda or socialism. The most pernicious threat to liberty, equality and fraternity is the screeching 4 year old.
These same star-bellied sneetches will no doubt be the first to bitch and moan about “their” social security check being reduced or their retirement account losing value. They’ll miss the irony of that being because there aren’t enough young adults to grow the economy, pay the taxes, and otherwise support them in the manner they’ve grown accustomed.
Given the miserable state of parenting in this country, I fully understand the marketability of getting away from OPK’s (other people’s kids). However, there are fine parents doing the job that wasn’t uncommon just a generation or two back. Assuming that mom stays home and they homeschool, they probably can’t afford to go out to ear much anyway . . . ;)
Flame away.
I think it is a sign of the times when parents can not get away from the children via extended family babysitting.
One sets aside time to be together as husband and wife without the kids only to have it ruined by somebody else’s brats.
OR
just trying to find the other have only to have to endure screamig and running children.
or
well lets just skip airplane flights.
I currently have five kids. We rarely take them out to eat because it is too expensive, for starters, and because it is almost guaranteed that at some point or another, one of them will melt down. We try to get it under control quickly but there have been a couple of times where we have asked for to-go boxes and got the heck out of there!
I don’t want to disturb other customers and I certainly believe that businesses have the right to set their own rules. I do still hold a bit of a grudge against rules like this because we treat our kids to the restaurant of their choice for their birthdays. I’d hate to think that one of my older kids wouldn’t be able to enjoy a “fancy” restaurant because he/she has a younger sibling.
We’ll just choose another place to eat but I think that I’ll probably never go to a place like this, even when I’m child free. I wonder if my kids will grow to do the same. They don’t want my business now? So be it but they will most likely not get it in the future, either.
Babies should be banned from all but G rated films.