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

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Anonymous wrote:Just . . . wow . . .

You lose 1/4 point. Your answer did not contribute to the conversation. And I wasted time reading it.

Same could be said for this post, Ms. Snippypants.

[Anonymous]

That's Dr. Snippypants, FYI. Dr. Knowitall Snippypants, actually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: you will never convince me that it's appropriate to be mean to a three year old in the circumstances that we were in.

You failed to convince us that anyone was mean to your three-year-old. Telling a child to be quiet -- "shooshing", to use the word you made up -- isn't mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's Dr. Snippypants, FYI. Dr. Knowitall Snippypants, actually.

Is that Dr. Knowitall Snippypants, MD or Dr. Knowitall Snippypants, PhD?

I will judge you differently according which one it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Ruths Chris superior to Mortons? DH and I have had a very serious fight on this very topic just days ago.

I don't care for either. Steak is steak. And frankly, I don't care for Morton's to show me a potato table side before they cook it. It's a potato! (NP here, trying to hijack the thread. Enough with the shooshing and not shooshing already.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Ruths Chris superior to Mortons? DH and I have had a very serious fight on this very topic just days ago.

Uugh. At both places, you can see the marks on the steak from where the jockey was hitting it - it's low-grade dogfood. I think the steak at IHOP would be more your speed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just . . . wow . . .

You lose 1/4 point. Your answer did not contribute to the conversation. And I wasted time reading it.

Actually, a very brief response can speak volumes. That response succinctly let the PP know how his/her profanity-laced tirade was viewed.

[Anonymous]

OP must be very insecure if she has the need to solicit agreement from a bunch of cyberstrangers- on the DCUM!

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I don't view her post that way any more than most on DCUM. This entire forum is about people soliciting opinions and ideas from cyberspace unknowns.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I think you handled it correctly. My 3yo son loves to engage people and 99 percent of the time, they love to chat with him. Occasionally there are grumps who hate happy people (adults or children) and live in their tiny insulated bubble. Perhaps they were just perfect little people as children.

Just because I want to spend time with MY family not engaging with YOUR family of perfect strangers I'm a grump?? Get over yourself.

Yes, but eventually YOUR family will be the one causing the ruckus. If it be an crazy uncle, a 3 year old, etc. And then you can get of your high horse and we can all point at you and say "SHUT YOUR KID UP" - no we'll smile and allow you to rejoin society. For now, we'll just let you live in your glass house.

Yes and when it is my family causing the ruckus (I have 3 and 5 yo fwiw) I expect society to tell my kids to shut up! You people love to recite "it takes a village" except when it comes to anything negative.

Is it a DC thing that so many parents think that the couple was out of line and needed to be reprimanded for making their darling 3 yo cry? It wasn't like they slapped him! Where I grew up (which wasn't here) when my children annoyed someone in a restaurant to a point of shooshing him, I would apologize to the couple and tell my child that he was bothering people and he would have one more chance to behave or we'd leave.

Where was this? New York?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think you handled it just right. My elderly mother has done things like this (shushing happy friendly kids) and it's mortifying to be around. Please know that it's senioritis, not your child. IHOP is not the venue to expect a hushed and adult dining experience.

I am not elderly or suffering fron "senioritis" but I was taken out to reataurants when a child and I learned how to behave and I taught my children how to behave in public. It is infuriating when someone's kid is screaming, running around, and parents do absolutely nothing to stop them. I don;t want to hear your kids scream in IHOP, McDonalds, or any other place. If you think their screaming is cute and funny let them do it in your car or in your home. You and your ill-behaved children do not have the right to ruin other people's enjoyment of their dinner. "Kid friendly" does not mean screaming, yelling, kicking, teach them some manners. I don't bothr "shoosing" them, I speak diretly to the parents and if thit doesn't work, I speak to a manager. This always works and, unfortunately, it is also embarrasing for many parents. I have seen a few huff and puff and leave and there was one case when all those around them applauded.

You either didn't bother to read any of the 13/14 pages here, or you are elderly and just went off on some tangent...IN MY DAY (loud elderly lady voice) WE TAUGHT OUR CHILDREN TO BEHAVE. AND WALK IN THE SNOW. DAMN IT!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Ruths Chris superior to Mortons? DH and I have had a very serious fight on this very topic just days ago.

I don't care for either. Steak is steak. And frankly, I don't care for Morton's to show me a potato table side before they cook it. It's a potato! (NP here, trying to hijack the thread. Enough with the shooshing and not shooshing already.)

Although, the chocolate godava desert at Mortons is so YUM.

[Anonymous]

"You and your ill-behaved children do not have the right to ruin other people's enjoyment of their dinner. "Kid friendly" does not mean screaming, yelling, kicking, teach them some manners. I don't bothr "shoosing" them, I speak diretly to the parents and if thit doesn't work, I speak to a manager. This always works and, unfortunately, it is also embarrasing for many parents. I have seen a few huff and puff and leave and there was one case when all those around them applauded."

Tee hee.

[Anonymous]

OP said "I admit, my kid wasn't sitting perfectly quiet, but this was a very noisy place and he would occassionally get loud. Each time, we told him to be quiet and he would be good for a while"

EACH TIME!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"You and your ill-behaved children do not have the right to ruin other people's enjoyment of their dinner. "Kid friendly" does not mean screaming, yelling, kicking, teach them some manners. I don't bothr "shoosing" them, I speak diretly to the parents and if thit doesn't work, I speak to a manager. This always works and, unfortunately, it is also embarrasing for many parents. I have seen a few huff and puff and leave and there was one case when all those around them applauded."

Tee hee.

I so agree and I'm not old. The most defensive and nasty name calling people on here, have the kids that don't behave. Listen, I have a 3 year old. If my 3 year is old is screaming or running around or talking in a high voice, we walk outside, and I explain in a calm voice that people around are enjoying themselves he is too loud. If it continues, we have to go, and if it continues, we go. Telling your kid, 15 times in a row, be quieter is not controlling the situation. They are not hearing the boundaries from you, they are tuning you out, and still annoying other people. Let them that if it continues, you will leave and do it. Stop giving these empty threats just to please the patrons. The noise is still going on. Get your child out of there.