Quick note for parents who take their small children to restaurants and cafes...

[episodic]

Actually, the people with over inflated sense of self importance are the parents of the kids that are brats that the OP describes. They don't discipline and feel that their little angles can't possibly disturb anyone else. Not just 20-30 years ago parents would have left mortified with their children in tow over behaviors that are flippantly ignored today.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: episodic
Actually, the people with over inflated sense of self importance are the parents of the kids that are brats that the OP describes. They don't discipline and feel that their little angles can't possibly disturb anyone else. Not just 20-30 years ago parents would have left mortified with their children in tow over behaviors that are flippantly ignored today.

Yes, they think that their little angles are so acute that no one will care.

 

[episodic]

Stop being so obtuse shotgunsteven

 

[Black88GTA]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: episodic
Actually, the people with over inflated sense of self importance are the parents of the kids that are brats that the OP describes. They don't discipline and feel that their little angles can't possibly disturb anyone else. Not just 20-30 years ago parents would have left mortified with their children in tow over behaviors that are flippantly ignored today.

Yes, they think that their little angles are so acute that no one will care.

Sadly, they ignore all of the warning sines that their children may have a disciplinary problem. Many parents are too obtuse to realize it.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: episodic
Stop being so obtuse shotgunsteven

Are you being complementary?

 

[theprodigalrebel]

It's awesome in movie theaters. You are trying to watch a super-serious R-rated drama and there's some one-year-old kid crying his lungs out. People put up with it for two minutes, and then the college kids take matters into their hands and pretty much embarrass and mock the people out of the theater with some pretty ugly taunts. Sometimes, the father will stand up and attempt to shout back, "Who the hell was that?"

Next thing you know, there's a wave of STFUs from 10 discrete points in the hall. Always love it when that happens.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Black88GTA

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: episodic
Actually, the people with over inflated sense of self importance are the parents of the kids that are brats that the OP describes. They don't discipline and feel that their little angles can't possibly disturb anyone else. Not just 20-30 years ago parents would have left mortified with their children in tow over behaviors that are flippantly ignored today.

Yes, they think that their little angles are so acute that no one will care.

Sadly, they ignore all of the warning sines that their children may have a disciplinary problem. Many parents are too obtuse to realize it.

Yes, so many parents think they are in the right, but their perception is off by several degrees.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: episodic
Stop being so obtuse shotgunsteven

Are you being complementary?

Actually I was trying to rotate my angle of view 270 degrees counterclockwise and then reflect about the origin. . .

 

[looker001]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
It's awesome in movie theaters. You are trying to watch a super-serious R-rated drama and there's some one-year-old kid crying his lungs out. People put up with it for two minutes, and then the college kids take matters into their hands and pretty much embarrass and mock the people out of the theater with some pretty ugly taunts. Sometimes, the father will stand up and attempt to shout back, "Who the hell was that?"

Next thing you know, there's a wave of STFUs from 10 discrete points in the hall. Always love it when that happens.

I would just tell everyone to STFU and ignore you for the rest of the movie. After 10 min, they will get tired of screaming stfu them self and will just ignore the crying baby.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: looker001

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
It's awesome in movie theaters. You are trying to watch a super-serious R-rated drama and there's some one-year-old kid crying his lungs out. People put up with it for two minutes, and then the college kids take matters into their hands and pretty much embarrass and mock the people out of the theater with some pretty ugly taunts. Sometimes, the father will stand up and attempt to shout back, "Who the hell was that?"

Next thing you know, there's a wave of STFUs from 10 discrete points in the hall. Always love it when that happens.

I would just tell everyone to STFU and ignore you for the rest of the movie. After 10 min, they will get tired of screaming stfu them self and will just ignore the crying baby.

Thank Gawd Regal Cinemas doesn't give their little signal devices to people like you.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: episodic
Stop being so obtuse shotgunsteven

Are you being complementary?

Actually I was trying to rotate my angle of view 270 degrees counterclockwise and then reflect about the origin. . .

Your logic sounds circular to me.

 

[xalos]

Little kids shouldn't be at the movies unless the thing is 100% geared towards children. When we went to go see Kung Fu Panda only my daughter went because she was the only one we thought would behave throughout the movie and it was a kids movie.

I also believe that it should be 100% legal to punch anyone in the face that talks on their damn cell phone during a freaking movie. Put them on vibrate and if someone calls take it outside. But, thats another thread.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Controlling kids is HARD, my sister has 3 so when we go to the restaurant it can be chaos but she keeps them under control pretty well. Even parents with kids need to have time out sometimes. Though if you can't make them behave for like 90% of the time, get a babysitter.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: zinfamous

what are you, 12? You got a lot to learn, chump.

What? So, if you're baby is crying nonstop, you can't pick it up and take it somewhere else where it wouldn't be bothering probably 20-50 other people? Is it really that difficult to understand?

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Why would I take my boy to a R rated movie for? That's just stupid. He needs food though - hence I take him to restaurants.

Oh yeah, and you don't have kids do you? Figure out why? Wtf? Sometimes they'll cry just because that's what their brain tells them to do. It's not as cut and dry as "he's hungry" or "he's thirsty". Sometimes it's "Hmmm...I feel like crying now. LEt's do it"

You're right, that is just stupid, which is the point I was making. And yes, I have seen people do exactly that. Strangely, they had the same attitude as you do. It doesn't need food from a restaurant though. Babies also need their diapers changed but you don't do it right there in front of everyone (or do you?). No, you're considerate and take them to the car or bathroom and change them there. Then again, the typical people I'm talking about tend to not do that, so their baby cries and smells like shit.

Clearly some of you are misunderstanding. Although I assumed you'd be intelligent enough (based on the responses I should've known better) to realize that I'm not talking about babies crying just a little bit (which everyone knows is natural), but about them bawling their brains out while their parents ignore them. Also, I'm not talking about fast food places, but restaurants where you'd get dinner and drinks. If you take a baby there late in the evening and people give you dirty looks or ask you to do something about your baby when its been crying for 15 minutes straight (during which you've just sat there ignoring it) and then wonder why (or immediately get offended and start making a huge scene), then you might be a dumbass.

The topic of this thread is people taking their children to cafe/restaurants are assholes. That is the point of debate. Not how much they cry. Anyone with a kid is going to be offended by that comment.

Seriously - what do you expect us to do? Lock ourselves away for 18 years? Children crying is a part of life, and if you guys don't like it then so be it. They need to eat to. My childs welfare is far more important to me than you, so any filthy looks will just get ignored.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: Raduque

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky

Originally posted by: jEnus

Originally posted by: looker001
Kiss my ass, seriously if you got problem with it, than don't got to that restaurant or that cafe. What do you want parents to do, sit home just because you have problem with it?

You can kiss my ass. I don't pay my earned income to hear your brat child screaming its head off because it didn't't get their way, all the while you both are ignoring the fact and are in your own world while disrespecting the rest of the restaurants.

Actually, he has every right to say kiss my ass. You know why? Because the law is on his side.

Quite frankly, I'll take my kid anywhere the fuck I want.

End of story.

Don't like it? Kiss my sweet little ass and dine at home.

Why don't YOU and your shit-machine dine at home?

Oh and the law isn't on his side. Nothing the cops can do about it either way. Or can they charge the parents with disturbing the peace? (serious question here, but I doubt it)

However, I can and will, do my damndest to have the manager throw you out. I absolutely hate disruptive children and the shitty parents who let their children screech and cry and misbehave. If you have a child too young to know how to behave in a restaurant, it has no business being there. If it's old enough to know how to behave and it won't, take it elsewhere.

Why should I dine at home? You're the one with the problem.

Never had a problem with crying children when I was single, and clearly I don't now. Like I said, my kid has never been hysterical in public and if he was I would take him to the bathroom until he calmed down - but just normal crying? Nope. Don't care.

BTw, it would be a brave manager to throw someone out because a kid is crying. Still, that's his choice to make.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Not everyone has zero control over their kids.

In short, fuck you too.

Like I said:

Who notices quiet, well behaved kids? It's the loud, obnoxious ones we notice.

ALL children cry. No matter how well behaved - they'll cry in public from time to time.

It's funny, when I go to a restaurant and someones kid starts crying - I just feel sympathy for the parents. Why? Because I know how it is- unlike most of the basement virgins in this thread. I don't go raging about it on a internet message forum

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: looker001
Kiss my ass, seriously if you got problem with it, than don't got to that restaurant or that cafe. What do you want parents to do, sit home just because you have problem with it?

NO. Leave your kids with a babysitter, or go to the restaurant before 6PM. No one wants to deal with your kids.

Too fucking bad. We'll go when we want to eat - not when some complete stranger tells us to.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Wow, this topic's hotter than religion sucks, evolution, or gay NASCAR drivers! Needs more fuel though, so without further ado:

Leave your smelly, senile grandparents in the nursing home. I don't go to nice restaurants (not that I do anyway) to listen to you loudly ask your grandmother eight times if she needs to use the restroom when it is apparent to all in the room that she already has.

Don't forget the teenagers. Yeah, senile grandparents piss me off to. Anyone over 70 should be banned from going out. Lock them in a cage! Only single 20-something should be allowed to go out. (i'm 29 so suites me)

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
It's awesome in movie theaters. You are trying to watch a super-serious R-rated drama and there's some one-year-old kid crying his lungs out. People put up with it for two minutes, and then the college kids take matters into their hands and pretty much embarrass and mock the people out of the theater with some pretty ugly taunts. Sometimes, the father will stand up and attempt to shout back, "Who the hell was that?"

Next thing you know, there's a wave of STFUs from 10 discrete points in the hall. Always love it when that happens.

Oh, I agree. But that's not the topic at hand is it? The topic is ANYONE that takes their kid to a restaurant is an asshole. Movies are a different kettle of fish.

 

[Chaotic42]

Buy a CPS jacket and bring a clipboard. When a kid starts going crazy, walk over to table, start writing on the clipboard, saying "I see...". Then sit back down.

I don't have a huge problem with it at restaurants. Some people are just bad parents and some kids just have problems. At movies though, especially R-rated movies, I have an issue. R should be changed to Adults Only.

 

[Reckoner]

If you can't control your kid/kids, then you need to GTFO of the establishment and stop bothering others. I shouldn't have to pop a couple excedrin because timmy didn't get his nintendo wii.

 

[SunnyD]

Oh yeah... by the way - REPOST.

 

[Cogman]

It all depends on the kid. Some kids can sit down and be quiet, If your kid isn't one of those, please don't inconvenience everyone else.

 

[imported_Imp]

Psh... you're all assholes.

The crying kid is annoying, but not that much more annoying than the 10 people peforming monologues with their cell phones, and abnoxious people talking loudly trying to impress someone. I also have trouble with people who are clearly bored at their table and stare blindly.

Just keep the kid from screeching at the top of his/her lungs, and we're cool.

 

[Cogman]

Originally posted by: Imp
Psh... you're all assholes.

The crying kid is annoying, but not that much more annoying than the 10 people peforming monologues with their cell phones, and abnoxious people talking loudly trying to impress someone. I also have trouble with people who are clearly bored at their table and stare blindly.

Just keep the kid from screeching at the top of his/her lungs, and we're cool.

Wait, you are mad at people that don't do, or say anything, people who are just daydreaming?

I can understand being mad at loud people that make it harder for you to think, but can't understand hating those who aren't making a sound.