Noisy children in restaurants

[MarillionFan]

Lol, you dont have kids do you.

I avoid taking ours to 'posh' places as, like any young kids, they will be as noisy or quiet as they feel like being at the time and there is simply no way to do anything about it, threats and bribes only work for a short space of time and punching them repeatedly in the head gets funny looks from fellow diners. My kids are noisy and thats the way they should be, any kids that sit quiet as a mouse throughout a boring grownup meal are a little strange in my book.

I'm reporting this thread to MumsNet you fckers!

I agree. Any young kid who can sit quietly in a restaurant without any deviation there's something wrong with them.

It's like when kids play. There are some parents who are so namby pampy & dull that their offspring are the same. They sit there quietly unable to express themselves, or play with other kids, or even talk or jabber.

Both mine have personality. Can be a little boisterous, but on the whole well behaved, like to run around as much as possible but will stop on the whole if asked. If a kid doesn't attempt to do any of that and sits there complicitly you only have to look at the parents to see how dull they'll turn out.

[2BIT]

WHS.

A friend with a kid was recently outraged when told she couldn't bring her pushchair into a fairly nice local pub. As if it's her child's right to be able to go wherever he likes - which in my opinion, he can't. Some places are just for the grown ups.

I remember before the smoking ban some mum brought her kids into the pub, surveyed the available seats and then chose to sit next to use, within 5 minutes she asked to stop smoking cos of her kids, we refused telling her to go and sit somewhere else and she coppped. some parents are just insane!

[Durbs]

Nah - they have just been warned that unless they are on their best behaviour, next time Mam & Dad go out for a nice meal, they'll be locked in the cupboard under the stairs.

I've always used the threat of their teddy going in the blender.

They called my bluff recently when they realised we dont own a blender. Little s0ds.

[cailin maith]

I've always used the threat of their teddy going in the blender.

They called my bluff recently when they realised we dont own a blender. Little s0ds.

We didn't have a cupboard either but just the "look" from Mammy was enough.

[Mich the Tester]

I remember before the smoking ban some mum brought her kids into the pub, surveyed the available seats and then chose to sit next to use, within 5 minutes she asked to stop smoking cos of her kids, we refused telling her to go and sit somewhere else and she coppped. some parents are just insane!

The 'I've just given up smoking so now I can be a sanctimonious, condescending tuliphead' type?

[Support Monkey]

Its the parents fault everytime, if the children are running around shouting and screaming its because the parents let them get away with it, children need guidance and boundaries, if the children sit around the TV with a plate on their lap at home what chance have you got of them sitting at a table in a restaurant,of course children are going to be noiseyand they should be allowed to be children but some parents just leave them to do whatever they please and not just in restaurants.

[MarillionFan]

I've always used the threat of their teddy going in the blender.

They called my bluff recently when they realised we dont own a blender. Little s0ds.

I threaten mine by telling them that Uncle Suityou and the kids are coming round. They soon settle down, they don't like the smell of urine either.

[MarillionFan]

When my eldest was about 18 months we went on a plane.

Anyway something was wrong, probably the air pressure because she went mental. Properly mental.

Being a package holiday plane there was no galley that you could walk into(or were allowed to).

Stressful didn't go into it. It was a four hour journey and she was loopy for 3.5 hours of it. Kicking, screaming, crying. We had up and down the plane, in the toilets. Couldn't do anything.

Most of the people around were OK apart from the couple in the seat directly in front. They kept turning around, pulling faces, shaking heads and tutting. After about the sixth turn, stare, shake and tut I leant forward and whispered 'If you turn around one more time and tut at me I am going to pull your ******* eyes out. Do you understand?'

They didn't look back once after that.

As I said. It's stressful for all concerned.

[cailin maith]

When my eldest was about 18 months we went on a plane.

Anyway something was wrong, probably the air pressure because she went mental. Properly mental.

Being a package holiday plane there was no galley that you could walk into(or were allowed to).

Stressful didn't go into it. It was a four hour journey and she was loopy for 3.5 hours of it. Kicking, screaming, crying. We had up and down the plane, in the toilets. Couldn't do anything.

Most of the people around were OK apart from the couple in the seat directly in front. They kept turning around, pulling faces, shaking heads and tutting. After about the sixth turn, stare, shake and tut I leant forward and whispered 'If you turn around one more time and tut at me I am going to pull your ******* eyes out. Do you understand?'

They didn't look back once after that.

As I said. It's stressful for all concerned.

Crikey - I feel sorry for Mrs MF

[Mich the Tester]

When my eldest was about 18 months we went on a plane.

Anyway something was wrong, probably the air pressure because she went mental. Properly mental.

I can understand that; when I was a kid I was carted around on planes as parents were working abroad all the time; any slight infection in the sinusses that you might not otherwise notice and a child will have an agonising pain behind the eyes and in the ears. Use the train if possible.