Restaurant bans screaming kids

[Archae]

Sounds like a good idea to me!

Restaurant: No Screaming Kids Allowed

http://www.wisn.com/video/24920995/detail.html

[HopeHoops]

1. That's a place to avoid - all Republicans.

They just have WHINING kids.

[LibDemAlways]

2. Wish I lived near there so I could frequent the place.

I once started a thread on DU about a restaurant meal ruined by a child who screamed nonstop for 20 minutes and threw plates while the mother ignored the episode. There are DUers who told me if I didn't like it, I should have stayed home. I trust they will not be frequenting this particular establishment. Good.

[grace0418]

4. That's absurd. What is so difficult about taking the kid outside until he or she calms down?

If the kid is screaming, why should that be anyone's problem but the parents? That's what you sign up for when you have a kid. For a few years you either don't go out to eat, you hire a baby sitter, or you deal with the fact that your meal might get interrupted several times or even cut short if the kid has a meltdown. You don't make everyone around you suffer.

I'm amazed at how many people think the world revolves around them and their little angels.

[dembotoz]

3. curious --most parents do not bring a screaming kid into the restaurant

sometimes they just go off

my kids usually behaved pretty well because they knew that the choice was to be good or go home and eat my cooking.

so behave in a restaurant vs bad cramps and poops

hell they could figure that out at a very early age.

[Archae]

5. Your kids learned manners.

Just a few weeks ago I was in a little truck stop diner with my Mom, and before we even got our menu a kid maybe 2 or 3 at the most ran past us, screaming.
And Mom was nowhere in sight.

Mom and I left, and went to another restaurant.

[marzipanni]

8. LOL! When I was a kid my mom went away for a day to see her father

when he was sick, and left my three older brothers and me with our dad. Dad's idea of lunch was "milk toast": buttered toast in a soup bowl with heated milk poured over it, and salt and pepper added. Heh, we would've preferred crisp buttered toast and a glass of cold milk. Milk toast seemed like something a kid would be given as an only slightly better punishment than no meal at all in a Dickens novel!

[Chan790]

9. Blasphemer!

Milk toast is the stuff of my idealized non-existent childhood. Though...it really is supposed to include grated cheese as well.

[tigereye]

11. is that where the phrase comes from? Never heard of it before...

My dad used to make creamed eggs on toast. Ugh.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Now if they'd only ban screaming kids from The Lounge.

Seriously, I don't know what this cancer that's killing the Lounge is all about, but it either needs to stop or I need to be let in.

[seabeyond]

7. not watching the video, but are non screaming kids allowed? i have yet to have a child

misbehave in a restaurant, let alone..... scream

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. I had one go off when he was 3 at the Burger King. We were in the bathroom and

someone turned on the hand dryer. Freaked my little man right out!! I couldn't get him out of there fast enough, poor baby. (He has a sensory disorder so I am sure that must have been horrific for him.)

[tigereye]

12. I just took mine outside when he got upset... or we left...

:shrug:

[Pool Hall Ace]

13. This is a step in the right direction.

Not every eating establishment on Earth has to be child-friendly. If parents have no issue with screaming children, then take the kids somewhere that has a ball pit.

[surrealAmerican]

14. So does that mean screaming adults ...

... are welcome? I'd rather go to a no screaming restaurant.

[Rochester]

15. Good! I hate screaming kids.

I don't know what I hate more: the screaming kids themselves, or the parents who try to soothe the thing by saying "Shhhhhhh..." as if that does any good. I have never once in my entire life seen a screaming brat shut up after being shushed by a parent.