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Do you let your toddler walk around in the restaurant?
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Anonymous
| Someone should start a restaurant called: HOT FOOD AND KNIVES. I know I'd go to it on date night just to avoid your shrieking, booger covered offspring. |
Anonymous
Awesome. It should be called, HOT FOOD, KNIVES AND BOOZE. |
Anonymous
| But, oh, no, my friends are too cheap to hire a babysitter to go with me to HOT FOOD, KNIVES, BOOZE and GUNS! What do I do? |
Anonymous
I would just let the kid hang out under the table. Shouldn't be a problem. |
Anonymous
| We dress our kids in a burka and stilts so no one knows they are children. We order extra glasses of wine to keep in front of them, just to make sure no one suspects. |
Anonymous
| I order him a margarita, and if anyone looks at us weird, I explain that he's vertically challenged and really sensitive about it. |
Anonymous
I heart you. |
Anonymous
I just laughed out loud at this. Actually I'm still laughing. I can't seem to stop now. |
Anonymous
| This IS hilarious. |
Anonymous
| it is so nice to see the sane ones with a sense of humor have taken over this thread. Seriously people, have you never been to silver diner? You should never go to silver diner, especially on Tuesdays. |
Anonymous
| I think this is totally based on the restaurant and the situation. If a child is well behaved and is being escorted around the restaurant and the restaurant is not that busy, what is the big deal? If the restaurant is very busy, has tiight walk-ways and is not well lit, then probably not a good place for a kids to be walking around for safety reasons. it seems like common sense to me. |
Anonymous
you sounds like a very happy person. NOT. |
Anonymous
He'll come out when my new band, Shrieking Booger Covered Offspring, starts it's set. We're awesome. |
Anonymous
| I find it absolutely annoying and makes it very uncomfortable to see young kids running/walking/playing where they should not be in restaurants and stores as its very not a playground. If your child cannot sit through a meal then get carry-out. Our son understand he will sit in his high chair during the meal and that is his only option and to behave or he doesn't go out again. Its been a non-issue and we eat out frequently. I hate when other families come up to us with their walking kids as my son looks at me and doesn't understand why they can do it and he can't - nor do I want my dinner/meal disturbed to play with their child, which happens frequently - sure I love kids as much as the next person but there is a time and place for everything. If you don't teach by example when kids are young, then when are you going to teach them as it only gets harder the older they get. To run, our son has his gym classes, the playground, the backyard, our house and other people's houses - plenty of opportunities but there is a time and place for everything! |
Anonymous
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My 22-month-old just can't go to restaurants. He's too restless and squirmy, so I just accept that we don't go to restaurants with him, Maybe in another year. Why is this such a problem? We can still get take-out, and DH and I can go to restaurants for dates (tho not often).
Today I managed to go to a cafe with counterservice. We spent a leisurely 15 minutes or so enjoying juice box, scone, quiche. It felt so civilized. |