Angry Moms Boycott Eatery That Asks Kids To Keep Quiet

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Lifer
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Strange... I have two kids & I also don't need a sign to tell them to be quiet & behave... if they don't they'll have me to deal with and it won't be pretty.... also my younger daughter used to act up all the time & again no one had to tell me not to take her out anywhere other then a family restaurant, my wife & I never took her anywhere where quiet was expected until just recently when she began showing self control & I don't think thats too much to expect.

The ultimate example of parents without a clue has to be infants/toddlers in the movie theater.. its one thing to take a 5 year old to the latest Disney cartoon and quite another to take a 2 year old to a serious movie in a crowded theater, yet the last two movies I went to sure enough thats what happened... just unreal!
 

Ronstang

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"But some parents who spoke with NBC5's Natalie Martinez took immediate offense to the sign. The angry mothers said there are plenty of places in the Andersonville neighborhood where they can take their kids, even if they're acting out."

This is the important line of the article. Once more the entitlement mentality so ever growing in this country rears it's ugly head. These damn angry women don't want to be a proper parent. I guess they are too busy to actually teach their kids how to act or be bothered with policing them in public. If it was my store I would simply kick out the people with kids that were acting up and inform them they are no longer welcome.

 

brxndxn

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Does "A Taste of Heaven" have a website? I want to order some food for them in support of silencing the little fvcking brats that annoy me at every movie, church service, restaurant, store in the mall, Walmart, grocery store!

My parents kept me well-bahaved when I was small.
 

Amused

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It's a sad, sad world when someone is protesting another for simply asking for good manners.
 

ribbon13

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Originally posted by: Stupid article
"Our custom has been to offer a cookie to every child that comes into the store for as long as I can remember," said Kathy Stanton-Cromwell, the co-owner of the bakery, which is just a few doors down from A Taste of Heaven.

Stanton-Cromwell said the cookie serves as "a good calmer" for kids who are acting up.

Giving kids sugar to calm them is downright fscking stupid.

 

Amused

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Originally posted by: ribbon13
Originally posted by: Stupid article
"Our custom has been to offer a cookie to every child that comes into the store for as long as I can remember," said Kathy Stanton-Cromwell, the co-owner of the bakery, which is just a few doors down from A Taste of Heaven.

Stanton-Cromwell said the cookie serves as "a good calmer" for kids who are acting up.

Giving kids sugar to calm them is downright fscking stupid.

Stuffing something is someone's mouth to shut them up can be quite effective. Worked for all my GFs. ;)
 

sourceninja

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Our movie theather banned kids after 8pm without a parent. Best thing they ever did, they get way more buisness. i wish we would see more of this. When I was a kid my parents had me under control, more and more you dont see that anymore, just kids controlling their parents. That is why the government seems to need to regulate things like video games, tv shows, movies, books, etc. Because parents can't control themselves, let alone their kids.
 

virtueixi

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It's not just kids, its a lack of any manners whatsover in society. This also relates to people yelling on their cellphones. Some people honestly just don't care about manners/annoying other people.
 

Pocahontas

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LOL I would love for my restaurant to put up the sign... I hate dealing with whiny, unruly children at work, its a NICE place and parents start to chit-chatting and no amount of animal crackers or crayons (which I keep in my apron) help them from running, yes running all over the place and the parents sit there and smile until someone a server or management asks the parents to "have the kids take a seat for their safety"..seriously its the only line that works .. too many trays have and will go a flying and for the screaming, 75% don't care, they let the children scream it out........
 

PingSpike

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I like how these idiot women think they have some god given right to force the everyone to listen to the product of their half assed parenting screeching. Close your legs next time, or keep your brats at home.
 

Shadowknight

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The eye thing on the ball gag reminds me of some of the cenobites from Hellraiser.

Yes, it creeps me out. A LOT.
 

PatboyX

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how can they boycott a play that was essentially telling them not to show up anyway?
 

Medicine Bear

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If I ever become President Executive Order #1 will be "No children under the age of 5 are allowed in restaurants or movie theaters"
 

Soccer55

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These people are idiots. What would really interest me is to find out what percentage of these parents do not believe in spanking their kids. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of these parents give their kids "timeouts" instead of spanking them.....and IMO, that would explain why their kids don't behave.

-Tom
 

DougK62

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Originally posted by: Soccer55
These people are idiots. What would really interest me is to find out what percentage of these parents do not believe in spanking their kids. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of these parents give their kids "timeouts" instead of spanking them.....and IMO, that would explain why their kids don't behave.

-Tom

It would be nice if it were that simple. There's so much more to good parenting than just whether you spank or not.

 

nakedfrog

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Sweet. I've got kids, and I'd be glad to go to this place and not have to put up with other people's kids who won't be quiet.
 

PingSpike

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Originally posted by: PatboyX
how can they boycott a play that was essentially telling them not to show up anyway?

Yeah...they're pretty much just saying "Oh yeah! Well we're going to do exactly what you wanted us to do then! Take that!"
 

Aharami

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i was listening to a radio talk show last night on my way home from work and they were talking about this same exact issue. most of the callers calling in had the same exact responses as in this thread - they agree with the restaurant owners
 

BobDaMenkey

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Cudo's to that shop for doing it.

I've yelled at kids in my store for beating up on eachother or fscking around with my demo stuff too much. Ex: "HEY! No one gets to beat up on people in my store except for me! So take it out side or knock it off!" The parents who are generally 2 feet away from their kids look at me and smile. Fsck, I'm an 18 year old register jockey that knows how to parent their kids more than they do.
 

Phoenix86

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Originally posted by: Amused
It's a sad, sad world when someone is protesting another for simply asking for good manners.
I think it's worse he had to put up the sign after all those years in business.