Control Your Kids at the Restaurants

Funny...this started with someone mentioning that if he wanted to talk to his wife about something that might cause a sh*t storm, he would do it at a restaurant.

In other words, he’s very aware of her feelings.

He’s also aware of how she will react.

And yet your response is to basically call him a coward.

Your comment:
“Speaking for women as a whole, yes. Men are usually blindsided when their wives leave them. They often don’t have a clue how their wives feel. That’s common knowledge.”

Is a generalization. ie, women as a whole/ that’s common knowledge.

Your entire premise from the start, is that the man is/ men are wrong.

In extramarital affairs, women are just as likely to commit them.
And yet, men are viewed as the louse,
but women claim justification.

Can we say double standard???

Then we look at who files for divorces.
Women file for divorce almost 70% of the time.
Of this near 70%, 90% of these divorces are filed by women with a college degree.

And yet women are just as likely to have an affair as men.

According to the CDC, 1 in 4 men are victims of domestic violence in their lifetime.
The CDC says that 40% of all severe physical violence in a relationship is directed at men.

I’m not justifying any of these actions.
Just pointing out some facts.

There’s a saying, that I’ve heard men say AND women heartily agree to.
“Happy wife, happy life”.
or
“If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy”.

There is also a popular meme,
“If a man alone in the woods speaks, and his wife cannot hear him, is he still wrong?”

Seems to me, your generalizations fall right in line with the above.

One old guy who sits in the back was listening to my cousins kid go on and he whispered to me, “I wish they would let your wife deal with him for a couple of weeks this would stop...” My wife had to take our oldest son out 3-4 times for acting up and he paid for it on the front porch of the church. The last time he was heard to exclaim “But momma I don’t want my butt busted!” She took out daughter and youngest son out once and that was enough.

We have a grandmother in our church now who has twin, three year old grandsons she brings to church and she routinely carries a Tupperware icing spreader with her and will wallop their little bottoms when they get out of line. I wish my cousin would take note!

One Sunday evening my cousin finally took her son out to the nursery and it is located behind the sound room where I work. For fifteen minutes I heard her beg, plead and cry trying to negotiate and reason with a three year old. Then he found a cabinet which butted up against the sound room wall and he started wailing on the door, slamming it as hard as he could, shaking the wall and it could easily be heard in the auditorium.

Again more begging, pleading, empty threats from his mom. Finally after a couple of minutes of this nonsense I had had enough and opened the sound room door and pointed directly at him and in a firm voice I told him, you slam that door again and I am going to wear you butt out, you STOP IT NOW, you are disturbing the entire church service! I saw fear in his eyes and my cousin didn’t word. I closed the door and he never touched the cabinet door again. Within ten minutes my cousin took him to the car out the back door. How can a college educated woman believe you can negotiate and reason with a three year old!

My youngest pitched an Opie Taylor, lay down in the floor and scream fit one time. I dragged him out of the restaurant, threw him in the van and drove around back of the parking lot and flailed his behind off. When we got home he got it again and had to watch a news channel the rest of the day and sit on the couch. He was three, he is now fifteen and it hasn’t happened again. He was the only one out of my three to try me in a restaurant.

Ours give their orders, thank the wait staff for refills and are expected to leave the table clean and push their chairs in upon getting up from the table.

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