It amazes me when parents let their kids run all over a restaurant. It’s also reminded me why I worked in bars instead of restaurants. LOL However, I’m shaking some things up in my life, in case you haven’t noticed my uhmm…restlessness… lately. So, no more bartending. Okay, no more bartending ona regular basis. I still help out when needed. BUT, I’ve gone back to work a few days a week, in the restaurant.
Just lunch shifts, which are nice and short. And not normally with many kids.
Today there was a table with a kid. One kid. One kid that would not shut up. I’m not talking about words. I’m talking about screeches and screams. So much so that two of my other tables complained. Finally, when I had had to ask them leave.
My thing is…why would the mother sit there and do nothing? Why would she NOT CARE that her kids was making a scene, and disturbing everyone around them to the point that they were asked to leave the restaurant. I was their server, each time I approached the table she and her friend were laughing and smiling, and just ignoring the kid. I just don’t get it. :confused:
Because some people shouldn’t be parents. I would never let my child sit there like that. If one of my boys made a scene, we left the area and I spoke to them. If they didn’t calm down, we left. I’ve even left grocery carts full of food. End of story. I will not tolerate behavior like that and my boys are now very polite, well behaved young men.
Personally I probably would’ve swatted the little bugger on the behind and put him in his room. Obviously that child has no limits and does what he can for attention.
I’m with Beth. I’ve done the same thing — just walked out of places if they refused to behave. After only a few of those instances, I can take them out anywhere and know that they’ll behave properly. If she wanted to let her kid scream, they should have gone to Chuck E Cheese for lunch.
It’s lassez-faire [sp?] parenting. Some people just get immune to their kids’ behavior after a while and they assume everyone else does too. I’m sure they were shocked and appalled at being asked to leave. 🙄
Cool! It’s nice to know it’s not just me with a low tolerance for that stuff. Sometimes I just shake my head and wonder. LOL
is called bad parenting. that child is just spoiled n in the long run there hurting there child. parents did not put respect in them. like i sid bad parenting.
i dont have kids of my own, but i am a grade school teacher, n i tell the kids, u want ppl to respect u, u respect others.
hey, my daughter was well behaved when we came to your resturant… 😛
we have a little fellow at the golf course that behaves like that, unfortunaltly he belongs to the owner, we have ladies who don’t come to ladies night cause he might be there. the Mom asked me once how I delt with my kids when they behaved like that, ummm they didn’t. I with Sela, Mcdonalds play area… today when I was in mcdonalds there was a couple of little fellows playing at a table and getting a little louder then Grandma liked, I just smiled at her… they were behaving. It also worries me when kids are tooo well behaved.
OMG reading that is just horrifying, Sasha, and why I try not to take the kid out often. If she starts screaming we are GONE. LOL.
:fight: Bad mommy!
:cursing:Poor Parenting…As a parent of a 3yr old, I have to keep in check…I may be use to Sullivan’s whining, screaming, screeching, but the rest of the population is not. When we eat out or are anywhere in public, we have the”talk” prior to entering…”this is how you are going to act Sullivan and this is what I expect from you–blah blah” usually works, but–if he is tired, or just being a 3yr old and testing me, and starts acting up, or being disruptive, I warn once–second time- I take to the bathroom and discipline if he is still acting up, and last straw, I remove us from the situation–whether we are finished eating or not..I realize that it is very obnoxious to let a child act up–it pisses me off when I see parents let their child do that, so I try to be courteous.. Sorry for rambling–JMHO.. 🙄
:ko: Sasha,
It’s unfortunate but true that the fact that so many people think of disciplining their children as a form of abuse that many don’t, or are incapapable of knowing how to do so without hitting their children… I was actually abused as a child and decided to never raise a hand to my child nor did I but that did not stop me from teaching her manners, something else sorely lacking nowadays.
You also made a comment about self sabotage.. I sure know that feeling! I just recently had a growing stage or something though because I’ve decided that I really love me, I’m a pretty good person and I really do deserve to be happy! So, I bought myself some Hydroxycut hardcore got them in the mail and have been working out since I started taking them and every day I sit down to my story for at least one hour.
I am the only person that is capable of making my life work… Heck ,I’ve gotten through 38 years making myself so so happy, if I’m going to put effort into it why not go all the way ? :duell:
That stuff drives me mental. I had an experience at the cinema recently where two lots of people bought along kids too young to sit through a movie.
it made me think about how it’s almost taboo to mention anything to parents about their kids behavior, let alone complain but it really is ridiculous for other people to have to tolerate that kind of thing.