The latter would be my guess.
Dont Mess with Texas...yes they needed their butts whipped. My parents would never tolerate a kid of theirs making a scene.
Eli and his brood mare apparently don’t have their own standard of disruptive behavior so they must rely on others. Perfect Obama voter types.
/eyeroll
Doesn't this simpleton writer, Rachel Quigley, have a grown-up editor?
Liberal parenting 101
Too active or just need their rear ends busted?”
I’m not the parental police. Reporter said the children were ages 1 and 3, but I would suspect the youngest was closer to two after watching them run around - and it was 9:15 at night when they arrived at the restaurant and ordered. Dad was interviewed on TV and said he felt “disrespected”. They weren’t Amish but couldn’t quite figure out the accent - certainly wasn’t Texan.
I would suspect that the kids were really wound up as children sometimes tend to get when they have missed a nap or bedtime. Mother appeared a bit clueless.
We rarely go to Appleby’s but I don’t recall seeing too many really young children there, particularly that late at night.
As soon as a person says the word “disrespect” all my sympathy goes away. Use of that word says a lot about attitudes and probable behaviour.
My parents would drag my brother and me out of that restaurant make both our head swims
LOL!
We get good old fashioned butt kickin at home LOL!
I suspect their kids are being deprived of corporal punishment...
I generally avoid Applebee’s. Most of the ones I’ve been to, the adults were acting like disruptive children.
Fixed it.
People used to stop at our table and compliment us on how well behaved our children were. That's probably never happened to these incompetent idiots who will most likely now sue and win.
Wife and I quit eating out at sitdown, server type restaurants after an experience at a local Mexican Restaurant years ago. The parents had left the kid probably about five years old in the car as he was throwing tantrums, but the kid got out of the car, and came into the restaurant, found his parents, and continued to throw tantrums throughout the restaurant as his parents ignored him leaving the rest of us to suffer. Management at the restaurant did nothing. Didn’t even address the parents on the matter. We finally had our meals put into packaging, and left.
We go to a fast food type place once in awhile, but we always take out, and go home to eat.
Mrs. RQSR, and myself have professional training in the culinary arts that we’ve never applied to the industry other than as a young man I was a cook for a restaurant chain for a couple of years so we do enjoy our home cooked meals. We’d rather eat our own cookin’ at home anyway.
My young son didn’t like sitting down at meals at restaurants, but it isn’t acceptable to get up and walk around the table or visit others. So we’d ask for a high chair as long as he fit, instead of a booster. After that, we sat in a booth, kids against the wall.
They were kept busy with toys or books. And if one was too disruptive, one parent walked out with the child while the other finished the meal and paid.
People go out to eat to escape hectic work/family life and relax. Two toddlers running wild are contrary to what they’ve paid for.
Yo, bro, “family friendly” doesn’t mean your brood can disturb other patrons. There must be more to their side of the story.
Why would a restaurant and restaurant manager involve ‘police’ if it is simply asking them to leave? Esp. like this story that got into the ‘news’.
With that said...most restaurants have been wayyyyyy more tolerant of these kids than I can handle. I'd get more quality meal time at a zoo than most restaurants nowadays. I say kudos to Applebee's.
Children should be seen not heard... Ricky Bobby’s boys didn’t do to bad in the applebee, better than his father thanks to grandmother having already tuned up their act as proper.