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Restaurants. Must I pay for a miserable experience?
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Then don't go to a family friendly restaurant again then as you obviously aren't that family friendly!
But the OP didn’t. He was talking about restaurants that weren’t “family friendly”
To be honest, though, apart from the pubs mentioned earlier you can never be quite sure whether or not there will be an issue. Our favourite restaurant is quite small - you don’t usually see children in there and, if you do, they are well behaved.
However, it’s my partner’s big birthday coming up and there are 20 of us going there (including a number of kids - 2 who have ADHD). They will be kept on rein but, with the best will in the world, anyone going there for their quiet late Sunday afternoon lunch may be in for a shock! Hopefully, (for everyone’s sake) we may get the restaurant to ourselves0 -
Look, unless a child is in pain or distressed because of some psychological reason ie parents rowing, either physical or sexual abuse or being overly spoiled then there is no reason for said child to scream and if it does the parent could stop this in a manner of ways. If they won't or can't do this there's a big parenting problem.
Yet more garbage. Yet more sweeping generalisations.And no I wasn't a perfect parent, there's no such animal. But my kids never screamed.
In which case I wonder if you actually are a parent. Or, if you are, whether you spent any amount of time with your kids.0 -
There is a big difference between "hitting a nerve" and posting something that is absolute bull**** and in the case of your comment that "Ascreaming child is indicative of bad parenting", I think that it falls into the latter category.I hit a nerve there, didn't I? That's usually connected to a guilt complex where the person reacts so vehemently to something that unsettles their own shortcomings.
Didn't your children never wake up from a nightmare screaming? or how about when they were teething0
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