(02-29-2020, 10:54 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(02-29-2020, 01:27 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I simply don’t understand why people allow their children to disrupt an entire restaurant. The table next to ours have about a one and a half year old who is cranky and restless. Like one of those old hand cranked sirens I hear the kid winding up louder and louder in a screaming cry. I look over and the mother is simply staring at him with a disapproving look, as if he understands and is capable of responding. Good gawd…

This is 99% the reason we don't eat out anymore. If a kid is unable/unwilling to behave according to their age then maybe find a babysitter. I realize there are kids who have true emotional disorders, but many who don't are lacking in discipline and structure. 

The other 1% of why we don't each out being the loud music and televisions. 

When did it become a thing where every single place you go has to have loud music and/or television. Even the dentist office is loud.

The child just needed to be engaged and soothed. That's what you do with hungry and restless children that age. The mother was lazy so she just stared as he stood on the seat of the booth next to her screaming at the top of his lungs with tears running down his face. What's even sadder is her belly was already swelling with the next child to fall victim to her sad lack of parenting skills.

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