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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On a cruise we were once seated with another family with a toddler. Great! we thought — until they immediately turned out a tablet with volume on an incredibly high value. My spouse and I were mortified at how rude it was for the other diners.

We don’t show a tablet to our toddler during dinner (we had it with us for the airplane), [b]but I went back to our cabin to get the device because our toddler was screaming that we couldn’t watch a tablet too[/b].

We were going to be seated with them for the week, so we weren’t exactly in the position to ask them to turn it down and they didn’t use headphones. We set our child’s tablet on mute, but the other family never picked up on our cues.[/quote]

We were on vacation with our in-laws (my husband's sister and her husband and their kids) and they allowed their kids to each have their device at the dinner table.  We don't allow that, so our kids protested for the first meal and when we made it clear that we were not going to budge, they got over it.  Was it fair to them?  Not really.  But I'd rather they feel like things were unfair for a week's worth of meals than think they can start watching devices at the table because they complained about not being able to do it.  I didn't realize how strict of a parent I was until I came on here.[/quote]

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