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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC area parents are better educated than the parent population in other cities and a lot of them parent competitively, plus they have more readily available disposable income. These things add up to tons of parents seeking “enrichment” experiences for their kids.

[b]Combine that with the DC area not having adequate resources to meet this demand.[/b]

Our kids are teens now and we have dragged them all over the US and Europe to every kind of “enrichment” activity you can imagine, all seasons, all times of day, all days of the week. I can, hands down, say that the DC area activities are the most over subscribed, crowded, and unpleasant.

That being said, there are a ton of good art museums in DC with light crowds, so maybe try that.[/quote]

I often feel the bolded is true but about so many things. I feel like DC doesn't have enough family-friendly restaurants, for instance. There are so many families here but it can be hard to find a place where it is appropriate and convenient to take kids out to eat. I personally don't want to take my kids to the fancier places in and around the city. I know a lot of people do -- these people either have more sophisticated and well-behaved kids than I do, or they are making the experience at those  restaurants miserable for everyone. We wind up going to chains for pizza or Mexican when we go out to eat, simply because we know they'll have a decent kids menu or kid-friendly food, the seating and bathrooms will be kid-friendly, and the restaurant will be okay with kids who do not yet have perfect table skills (my kids are actually pretty well behaved but they are still kids and not tiny refined adults -- they sometimes raise their voices, are still refining their fine motor skills and might spill or get crumbs on the floor, don't always remember to use their napkins instead of the collar of their shirts).

Anyway, I can't figure it out. When we visit friends and family in cities like Philly, Boston, Pittsburgh, Atlanta... it's always really easy to find family dining spots, whether it's burgers or barbecue or Italian or a brewpub or whatever. In DC we really struggle with it.[/quote]

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