Re: Children's Safety
Well, I am happy for you, perhaps you should just stay out of restuarants...
If your children are out of control in a contained public place & you don't care, a place where other people are paying to be, the children shouldn't be there. It doesn't matter if it is the opera, or a quite restaurant.
If you can't control them in situations where there is little danger to them, then chances are you can't control them when they become a danger to themselves, or those around them.
My girlfriend fly's for a living, and parents often turn their kids loose in the airplane for the duration of the flight, like it is some kind of “free for all” playground.
She hears the “how dare you” line all the time.
It generally stops, but not always, the second the parents are told to contain their children, or there will be a unplanned stop in Greenland where they can scream & play all they want to. Play that is, after they have a talk with the airport police who will be there to meet them at the plane as the are removed, before it takes off for the rest of the planned flight.
If you don't think they will stop in Greenland, and set you and your children off the plane, try it.
I don't dislike children, and nothing makes me happier than to see them running around being what they are, children. But there is a place, and a time for it.
I am not referring to sick, hurt, or tired children. I am talking about misbehaving children, and there parents.
In public, there are rules that override your rights as a parent, and they are there to protect people, from people that “dare” to write their own rules for society.
Like the other poster, I know in advance that if I go to “Chuck-e-Cheese” to expect this, and in this environment it wouldn't bother me. My choice to be there.
If I go somewhere quite to to eat to celebrate a anniversary, or something along these lines, I would like to think I can do so without the kid behind me screaming and throwing noodles on my suit over and over while the parents just ignore them.
Yes this happened last time we went out to eat. The restaurant owner finally told them to leave at someone else's request. Then came the, at the top of their lungs, “we are all child haters”, and “how dare we” tell them how to raise there children, speech from the parents.
