Businesses saying keep the rowdy children at home.

[MrFilthyIke]

From my experience though those people are allowed in places.

They are till the owner/manager decides enough is enough, restaurant/cafes/bakerys/etc are Prive Property and the boorish and obnoxious customer can be removed and/or trespassed w/o any recoyrse.

 

[Gnarlo]

Even in places you'd think were as common sense as hospitals you run into this; on my floor we've had to have the patient rep and security come and talk to no less than 4 different families in the last month to explain to them that 'yes, we know that that is your mother/father/child who is the patient in room X, but you will ask your seventeen family members to wait in the waiting room and not in the hall/turn off the cell phones around the medical equipment/keep your children from running up and down screaming in the halls or you WILL be removed from the hospital and not allowed to come back.' We do everything we can short of this to put a damper on the situation because of having a loved on in the hospital being a stressful situation, but damn if some folks ain't as thick as a post or get on the 'we're paying your salary' kick. Way too many people a) have never been taught manners and so can't use them or pass them on, and b) believe in the customer is always right myth, unfortunately.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

So far we've hammered on obnoxious kids, cell phones and boorish drunks. I'd like to propose our next target of public scorn: text message phone users at the movies. These people (usually teenage girls from what I've seen) have replaced loud children as my new least favorite theater-goer. I go to a later show to avoid the screaming kids and now I get these airheads, with their glowing screen right in my line of sight and muffled giggles.

 

[Rel]

The problem is, those signs, even if not targetted at regularly behaving kids, chill the atmosphere. Other patrons or staff may be emboldened to tell parents to leave for that occasional outburst even if the child, in the main, is behaving just fine or at least within socially acceptible parameters.

So what?

This isn't the town well where everybody has to go draw their daily water from. It's one snooty coffee shop!

If parents go in there with their kids and get the stinkeye, even if Jr. isn't acting up then they won't come back. They may even tell their friends about it. That might cause the business to fail. Or maybe it will become known as the sort of place where you don't have to worry about kids screaming while you sip your Skinny Half-Caf Latte and will thrive on that segment of the market.

Either way, nobody is forcing you to go there. The business can succeed or fail on its own merits. Where's the big panty-twist here?

 

[Dark Jezter]

I like kids, but few things are more annoying than trying to enjoy a nice meal in a resturant or a movie in a theater while a nearby toddler is screaming their head off and running around while the parents do absolutely nothing about it.

I'm 100% in favor of businesses being able to ask parents to leave if they can't control their kids.

 

[JLXC]

I am actually shocked from reading this thread. The initial post made sense, the man who posted the sign was not only in the right, but would have my business in a heartbeat, it's the defending the "Stupid People" that blew me away.

If your kid is misbehaving in a place where people are paying to do something, and ruining their night, you should have to pay for their meals/movie/whatever. If you don't like it, either control your children or LEAVE. This should be law. I have a child, she's never done any of the things listed under the initial post because the one time she started acting up (It was in a movie theater) I immediately took her out, sat in the car with her, and waited. I tried to take her back in and she acted up again, we spent the rest of the movie in the car waiting for mom to finish. I didn't like it, but too bad, it worked. She was 4 and we never had to do anything like that again. Being a parent is hard sometimes because you HAVE to teach your kid what is and is not ok to do, and sometimes it inconveniences you. WAHH. Don't have kids if you can't be a parent. It's not your right to allow your spawn to screw up everyone elses night so you can ignore them and "relax". This is an Evil attitude, pure selfish Evil.

Also the idea that posting a sign asking kids (or anyone for that matter) to behave is Discrimination, is insanity. It shows a complete loss of touch with reality to think this. Only a lawyer could argue that asking people to behave is discrimination against those who want to misbehave. Of course I'd argue something that stupid for 150 an hour, and drag it out for years, but that's beside the point.

 

[jgbrowning]

No shoes, no shirt, no quiet kids, no service.

joe b.

 

[ssampier]

Don't have kids if you can't be a parent. It's not your right to allow your spawn to screw up everyone elses night so you can ignore them and "relax". This is an Evil attitude, pure selfish Evil.

Best quote evar.

You, sir, are my hero. I would bet you're a great dad.

 

[mojo1701]

Best quote evar.

You, sir, are my hero. I would bet you're a great dad.

Maybe he WILL be.

 

[WayneLigon]

My sons know the threat of being "taken to the van," and they are generally well behaved.

That isn't like 'going to the cornfield' is it?