How would you react to a stranger shooshing your child at a restaurant?

[Anonymous]

Poor three-year-old, who is being taught such bad manners that perfect strangers have to tell him to pipe down. It would be different if he were a toddler, but he isn't, and can do better.

Daddy and Mommy are the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH usually asks if the kid is retarded. Works every time.

Well, isn't your "DH" a big guy. Insulting a child, boy, that is just so manly. And the insult, well, it's witty enough to be printed in The New Yorker. If he made a statement like that to me or my wife in front of my child, I would ask him to step outside to discuss the matter further. I'm funny that way, when an adult insults a child I like to give the adult an opportunity to pick on someone his own size. When I was a child I had to put up with a-holes like your husband who thought it was nothing to insult and hurt a child. I'm betting your husband is just like so many people I have met through out the years and he will decline my offer because he is nothing more than a punk ass coward who only insults people he thinks can't fight back. And don't bother writing back with, we'll just sue you for assault. First, your husband will not have the balls to step outside. Second, I'll give him the first punch so I'll be doing nothing more than defending myself. Third, and sweetheart I know of what I speak, when he tells the cop that the dispute started because he was verbally abusing a child, the cop will explain to him that he's probably better off taking the ass whipping he deserved than going to court to testify that the fight started as a result of him verbally abusing a child. Fourth, you can be sure that if we did end up in court that his employer, your neighbors, the parents at your kid's school, the people at your church, social services and just about anyone in your community will know why -- that your husband is a guy who admitted under sworn oath that he verbally abuses children. So next time he is in D.C., Chevy Chase or Bethesda he better think twice before he opens his mouth and insults a child because he maybe talking to my child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op again; just to clarify, they were about 55 (so not elderly). DH was really pissed, but he knows he could've handled it better. On the other hand, he wanted to make sure DS knew his parents were in his corner and would "protect" him. DS was quite scared by their reaction. (I actually only heard it, but didn't see it). It was a very exaggerated "shhhhhhh".

This type of thinking is why some many kids think that no matter what they do, Mom and Dad will always stick up for them, even if what they did is wrong. Fast forward to High School. Little Johnny think he can cheat or drink and Mom and Dad will protect him from the consequences. You set the tone when they are young.

Sorry but I have kids and I would be annoyed if a kids interrupted my dinner. Just because it is IHOP does not give you the leeway to interrupt meals or be disruptive. I expect the same behavior at IHOP that I do at Ruth Chris. It is not Chucky Cheese.

[Anonymous]

It's a good thing my child never misbehaves.

[Anonymous]

Yes, aren't we lucky. But then, we deserve it, because we are the world's only perfect parents. Maybe we could form a playgroup?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poor three-year-old, who is being taught such bad manners that perfect strangers have to tell him to pipe down. It would be different if he were a toddler, but he isn't, and can do better.

Daddy and Mommy are the problem.

Right, because every three year old has perfect impulse control. Whatever. DS, 3.5, was sitting at a booth the other day playing with his Buzz Lightyear. Out of nowhere, he leaned over the side, waved at the neighboring booth and said in quite a loud voice, "Try the pizza. It's really good" (mimicking his father speaking to me).

Luckily, we had nice patrons next to us, but seriously, some kids have off days and you can't always predict what they will do.
But it must be nice to live in perfect world.

[Anonymous]

If you expect the same dining experience at IHOP that you do at ruths chris's then you're deluded. It's not good manners to shhhhh! Didn't your patents ever teach you that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, aren't we lucky. But then, we deserve it, because we are the world's only perfect parents. Maybe we could form a playgroup?

Only if your HHI is above $300k (which mine certainly is) and I wouldn't dream of considering parents who lived outside the Langley/McLean/Whitman/Churchill zones. (I still don't know which neighborhoods in DC are pre-approved.)

But in the meantime, let's give thanks for having perfect kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, aren't we lucky. But then, we deserve it, because we are the world's only perfect parents. Maybe we could form a playgroup?

Only if your HHI is above $300k (which mine certainly is) and I wouldn't dream of considering parents who lived outside the Langley/McLean/Whitman/Churchill zones. (I still don't know which neighborhoods in DC are pre-approved.)

But in the meantime, let's give thanks for having perfect kids.

Anyway, we would never be caught dead at IHOP. I think we should have our first playgroup at Ruth chris's.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, aren't we lucky. But then, we deserve it, because we are the world's only perfect parents. Maybe we could form a playgroup?

Only if your HHI is above $300k (which mine certainly is) and I wouldn't dream of considering parents who lived outside the Langley/McLean/Whitman/Churchill zones. (I still don't know which neighborhoods in DC are pre-approved.)

But in the meantime, let's give thanks for having perfect kids.

Anyway, we would never be caught dead at IHOP. I think we should have our first playgroup at Ruth chris's.

This is true. I must leave my calling card with your manservant posthaste.

[Anonymous]

Slow topic starter day on DCUM for this very lame ass post to generate 11 pages.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't say something, but if your child yelled at me I would be pretty irritated. I'm usually pretty chatty with kids if they behave, but yelling is always rude.
Sure the old people could have dealt better with it, but they probably did with their own kids.
Even if ihop is not a fancy restaurant, but it is a restaurant where kids should behave.
Do you teach your kids that ihop is ok to scream, but not at other places. I think kids should always have manners, even at wendy's.

Look out, PP. you do not appreciate her Sunny Hello from her WONDERFUL three year old child. "She may just personally shove this plate of pancakes up your tired old nasty miserable ass. Merry Christmas to you too bitch." for disagreeing with her.

Incoming!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no not for disagreeing with me. For repeatedly calling my kid names. What a sick person you are.

Yeah, you're right ...and you'd NEVER call anyone names. Is that the same reaction the elderly couple got at IHOP?

I don't call three year olds names. If the had called my child a monkey brat and retarded like he's been called by that poster here, I would feel more than justified calling them names or worse. Read the whole thread and you'll see

get a grip, lady. IHOP, Wendy's, Ruths Chris is NOT your child's playground.

I'm the PP quoted first....I didn't call anyone names...just said what I was thinking about it. Isn't that what a discussion board is for? What is wrong with you people??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
But it must be nice to live in perfect world.

Oh, it is. And it helps to have a perfect grasp of etiquette, so that you don't attempt to correct the behavior of other people's parents.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like autism spectrum behavior to me . . . child gives an unhibited "HI" to people he doesn't know, then overreacts to auditory stimuli ("the loud SHHHHH).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slow topic starter day on DCUM for this very lame ass post to generate 11 pages.

Thanks for the laugh! You've got a dry sense of humor!