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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm with OP. I have a sibling who brings out a screen for her kids whenever we go to a restaurant and they make any fuss whatsoever. I have had to ask sibling to take out the screens when we go out with them, as I don't want my kids thinking it's normal/appropriate. Sibling's kids are several years younger than mine and are used to daily screen-time for hours on end. It's ridiculous. And sibling just says "this is the only way I can talk" at a restaurant. As if my kids started off knowing how to behave at a restaurant at age 1?! No, I had to teach them what to do, and now they are capable of ordering for themselves and entertaining themselves with small toys/coloring (which I bring with me). We had many meals where we left immediately after scarfing down our food. We had many times when one parent had to walk the kid outside the restaurant because they couldn't sit still. In some situations, I even resorted to showing my kid pictures of their family on my phone to entertain them. So yea, I judge parents who turn on a tv show at restaurants for all to hear because they can't or don't want to parent appropriately.

(And I'm not anti-screens. My kids love movie nights and get free reign on road trips/airplanes.)[/quote]

I don't let my kids use a lot of screens, but to judge someone for letting their kids use a screen in a restaurant, and ask your sister to change her parenting so that you don't have to parent your own kids and teach them that they follow their family's rules even when other families do things differently, and then to turn around and say you give your kids free reign on road trips and airplanes, which are exactly the same thing (giving kids screens because you don't feel like entertaining them, or teaching them how to behave, in a situation where you'd rather do something else) is so hypocritical.  [/quote]

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