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Originally Posted by nj2nh
How is a kid supposed to learn how to behave in a restaurant if they are banned from going to them. Honestly, I am having a really hard time believing anyone thinks this is a good idea. If you don't want to encounter kids, stay home or eat later when they won't be there.
Kids are people, too!
And before you jump all over me, I do agree that people should not bring children anywhere (Friendly's or the Ritz) under the following circumstances:
1. The kids are cranky because they spent all day in the water and didn't get a nap.
2. After, say, 7pm no matter how happy the kids are unless it's a quick stop at Burger King out of desperation.
3. When the kids outnumber the parents more than 4-1.
I have two boys. Both are teens. They never, ever caused a problem in a restaurant and we have taken them everywhere - including the formal dinners on a cruise, but we always went early and we never went cranky.
Don't blame the kids. Blame their parents who don't really care about their kids or the people around them. It is self-centered adults who are the problem, not their poor unfortunate children.
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I agree with you on this and I have seen stuff like this in the past. Our youngest of 4 kids is almost 14 now but I am sure that 10-13 years ago there the parents vacationing next to us must have thought we were the meanest parents in the world when we were getting our kids ready for bed at 9:00 and they were just getting ready to take their kids of roughly the same age to Funspot or some other activity. But by the middle of the week when we were still enjoying time in the middle of the day with our children because they were happy those parents were dealing with crabby kids who would just break out crying for no reason. I heard several times from those parents say "why are you so crabby today" to their young children. I am not saying that you should not loosen up a little on vacation but when you have young kids that are out all day in the sun and in the water and then you let them stay up until midnight 3 or 4 nights in a row please don't wonder why they are so crabby in a restaurant or any other place.