Reply to Tweens at nicer restaurants

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "Tweens at nicer restaurants"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would think the vast majority of kids without SN (and many with them) should be fine to do this by age 10, but possibly much earlier. I guess the issue is side-eye from other patrons even with a "perfectly behaved child," but I'd assume that much less likely after the age of 8 or so.

With the caveat that "perfectly well-behaved" at a place like this does not include a phone or a tablet, even with headphones. Even though adults don't always follow this, and even though, if you have to do it because you must attend something at a fancy place and have a very young and/or SN kid with you, well, you gotta do what you gotta do.

I don't think the OP's 13 yo would "require" a tablet, but I could see parents doing this with a 9 yo, and it's distracting and should be avoided. [/quote]

Your kids only need tablets to stay quiet at the dinner table because you give them the tablet. We've been taking our kids to restaurants since they were babies and not once have we given them a tablet. Etch-a-sketch or coloring books to pass the time while they wait for their food, absolutely, but never a tablet.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics