Kids and Small Hotels and Breakfast Time Nightmares

no-oneknowsme

PasturesNew wrote: »

No I don't.

If I had kids I wouldn't be living in a hotel.... I'd be banging on their door for their sofa.

Oh your post makes sense now lol

bestpud

Some children are a pain, it has to be said! Some adults are a pain too though!

If there is children around in a buffet restaurant, I have to say I prefer to get there early so I can get my food before the smudgy fingerprints, dribble and foods with a bite missing start to appear!

I also find it annoying when parents allow their children to run around when I'm trying to negotiate a path to the table. That's downright dangerous but it's amazing how often I see it.

Some are noisy, but it's only screaming that would make me complain.

Mauling food is definitely the worst some (not all) thing children do in my experience - I can't cope with that at all! _pale_

DKLS

Op I suggest investing in a pair of Bose noise cancelling earphones, I was skeptical but now I can enjoy work travel and hotels without the constant noise emitted by little people and their "parents" who can't or won't control their feral offspring.

Nicki

DKLS wrote: »

Op I suggest investing in a pair of Bose noise cancelling earphones, I was skeptical but now I can enjoy work travel and hotels without the constant noise emitted by little people and their "parents" who can't or won't control their feral offspring.

:eek: OP's complaint as I understand it is that the parents need to ask their baby and toddler more than once what they would like for breakfast and the children sometimes struggle to choose, and that the children sometimes jostle each other to be first through the door into breakfast. Given the age of the children under discussion, I think to describe them as "feral" is more than a bit OTT, as is any suggestion that the parents are failing to control them, and are unworthy to be called parents :cool:.

In fact, given the age of the children, and the behaviour which is being complained about, it sounds like OP is being completely unrealistic in her expectations, and is taking out her own frustrations at being temporarily homeless on innocent bystanders who have the misfortune of holidaying in the hotel she is staying in. I can't imagine these families are having a particularly nice holiday either if they are being scowled at by OP and her fellow guests each morning for perfectly normal and age appropriate behaviour on the part of a baby and toddler. In their shoes, I would be complaining to the management about OP's behaviour to be honest, rather than expecting any complaint to be made about my own family.

There is not a buffet in this hotel, and the comments about children running around and fingering the food are general whinges others have made about children in general, not specific complaints which can be laid at the feet of these extremely young children.

DKLS

Nicki wrote: »

:eek: OP's complaint as I understand it is that the parents need to ask their baby and toddler more than once what they would like for breakfast and the children sometimes struggle to choose, and that the children sometimes jostle each other to be first through the door into breakfast. Given the age of the children under discussion, I think to describe them as "feral" is more than a bit OTT, as is any suggestion that the parents are failing to control them, and are unworthy to be called parents :cool:.

In fact, given the age of the children, and the behaviour which is being complained about, it sounds like OP is being completely unrealistic in her expectations, and is taking out her own frustrations at being temporarily homeless on innocent bystanders who have the misfortune of holidaying in the hotel she is staying in. I can't imagine these families are having a particularly nice holiday either if they are being scowled at by OP and her fellow guests each morning for perfectly normal and age appropriate behaviour on the part of a baby and toddler. In their shoes, I would be complaining to the management about OP's behaviour to be honest, rather than expecting any complaint to be made about my own family.

There is not a buffet in this hotel, and the comments about children running around and fingering the food are general whinges others have made about children in general, not specific complaints which can be laid at the feet of these extremely young children.

If a parent can't manage the simple task of sitting a child down giving it some breakfast and eating and behaving in an appropriate manner, I would question their parenting skills, !!!!!! how hard is it?, what does the toddler normally have for breakfast, cereal, toast or smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.

I have had too many meals out ruined by kids who couldn't behave or !!!!!! and parents unable to parent due to pandering to their little emperors. Saturday was a prime example at the local garden centre 2 young kids running wild, crashing into pensioners and tables and screeching and shouting yet the parents were oblivious.

If it was up to me I would have whisked them off to social services or better sell them to a testing lab to save on using bunnies.

Nicki

DKLS wrote: »

If a parent can't manage the simple task of sitting a child down giving it some breakfast and eating and behaving in an appropriate manner, I would question their parenting skills, !!!!!! how hard is it?, what does the toddler normally have for breakfast, cereal, toast or smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.

I have had too many meals out ruined by kids who couldn't behave or !!!!!! and parents unable to parent due to pandering to their little emperors. Saturday was a prime example at the local garden centre 2 young kids running wild, crashing into pensioners and tables and screeching and shouting yet the parents were oblivious.

If it was up to me I would have whisked them off to social services or better sell them to a testing lab to save on using bunnies.

I think you are deliberately being a WUM.

The OP's complaint is that the children, who are babies and toddlers, so I imagine all under the age of 3, are being asked by their parents more than once what they would like for breakfast. My youngest is 2 and a half and I do need to repeat questions like this for him more than once. That doesn't make me a rubbish parent, just one that acknowledges that children of that age need a few minutes to process and understand questions and come up with an answer. I won't expect to be doing this when he is 5! And no, none of my children have the same thing for breakfast every day, and never have done. Sometimes they have toast, sometimes cereal and sometimes something cooked. Why should this family who have paid considerably more for their family room than OP will have done for her single, not be allowed to choose their breakfast, but OP is?

There is no evidence on what OP has said that these children are behaving in any way badly, or that the parents are "pandering" to them. Just a selfish narrow minded OP who doesn't like children and doesn't think they should be allowed to stay in the same hotel as her at all.

For what its worth, it would spoil my lunch or meal out if I was sitting next to an adult like you who is unable to string three paragraphs together without swearing inappropriately and unnecessarily twice, and completely overreacting and becoming hysterical over a trivial issue. If the children on Saturday were really behaving badly, and the parents had not noticed this, why not say something to them or to their parents about it at the time, instead of ranting and raving days later about involving social services :rotfl:

jellyhead

DKLS wrote: »

I have had too many meals out ruined by kids who couldn't behave or !!!!!! and parents unable to parent due to pandering to their little emperors.

You expect kids to shut up? Why? Do you expect adults to eat in silence too?

My children don't crawl under tables or run around but I do allow them to talk at the breakfast table.

Person_one

DKLS wrote: »

If a parent can't manage the simple task of sitting a child down giving it some breakfast and eating and behaving in an appropriate manner, I would question their parenting skills, !!!!!! how hard is it?, what does the toddler normally have for breakfast, cereal, toast or smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.

I have had too many meals out ruined by kids who couldn't behave or !!!!!! and parents unable to parent due to pandering to their little emperors. Saturday was a prime example at the local garden centre 2 young kids running wild, crashing into pensioners and tables and screeching and shouting yet the parents were oblivious.

If it was up to me I would have whisked them off to social services or better sell them to a testing lab to save on using bunnies.

What sort of tips can you offer based on how you've raised your child?

jellyhead

bestpud wrote: »

Some children are a pain, it has to be said! Some adults are a pain too though!

If there is children around in a buffet restaurant, I have to say I prefer to get there early so I can get my food before the smudgy fingerprints, dribble and foods with a bite missing start to appear!

I also find it annoying when parents allow their children to run around when I'm trying to negotiate a path to the table. That's downright dangerous but it's amazing how often I see it.

Some are noisy, but it's only screaming that would make me complain.

Mauling food is definitely the worst some (not all) thing children do in my experience - I can't cope with that at all! _pale_

Ewwww! We are staying in a small 7-room B&B next week and after reading this I am now considering racing down early to grab breakfast before anyone else :rotfl:

I think ours is the only family room, so fingers crossed my children will be the only ones there PN if you're in Great Yarmouth next week I'll expect to see a full report of my parenting skills

jellyhead

shellsuit wrote: »

I have a few times in the past and it's not a crime as far as I know, unless there is something I'm missing? It's never made my kids hyper, unless there are certain brands which do?

Caffeine can affect some children (probably all children? I don't know).

Cheap brands might contain tartrazine or other nasty colourings, but they only seem to affect a minority of children and unless you have one of those children you'd probably not be aware of it or even believe other parents who mention it (sorry, I'm still cross about a couple of mums reactions when I took creme eggs off my son in the playground after school and promised to buy him something else instead).

I think some people react to anything fizzy, or to the sweeteners etc. but am not sure about that.

Anyway, I think PN was likening the behaviour to having had fizzy drinks and playing in a ball pit, rather than saying they have coca cola for breakfast at this B&B.