Businesses saying keep the rowdy children at home.

[Desdichado]

So much of this is just comman sense.

I originally read that as conman sense, and I thought, WTF?

 

[wingsandsword]

I brought this up in my ethics class yesterday. The general consensus was that in order to make the rule ethical, he'd have to extend it to all rowdy people, not just kids.

I'm fine with that, but the proprietor of the establishment in the article that started this was only having a problem with children to begin with, hence the sign. Actually the original sign did mention it applied to "all ages".

But I for one am fine with any establishment that wishes to post a rule saying rowdy/disorderly people can just take it outside.

Now I'm imagining a quiet little coffeehouse with a big burly bouncer at the door

 

[Zappo]

Perhaps, but the guy who tried to get a woman to stop breast-feeding ought to be tarred and feathered.

Agreed. Or at least, get a psychological check-up. I can't fathom what type of person would be annoyed by a woman breast-feeding, or why. Probably the same type of person who would cover up nude statues.

 

[StupidSmurf]

I'm fine with that, but the proprietor of the establishment in the article that started this was only having a problem with children to begin with, hence the sign. Actually the original sign did mention it applied to "all ages".

But I for one am fine with any establishment that wishes to post a rule saying rowdy/disorderly people can just take it outside.

Now I'm imagining a quiet little coffeehouse with a big burly bouncer at the door

Patrick Swayze stars in....COFFEEHOUSE.

 

[Warrior Poet]

Perhaps, but the guy who tried to get a woman to stop breast-feeding ought to be tarred and feathered.

And sometimes you can't believe everything you read in print.

http://www.poise.cc/didyouknow/archives/20051109.php

According to this, there wasn't a male on staff, and no woman was asked to stop breastfeeding. Apparently the bookstore in question has chairs set aside specifically so women can breastfeed.

But far be it from the media to sensationalize something to sell a story!

Warrior Poet

Edit: I'm with everyone who thinks responsible parenting means teaching children how to respectfully interact with their environment and others, and that removing children when they're having a fit is the appropriate thing to do, and the store's within its rights to establish non-discriminatory policy as they see fit.

 

[Old One]

While we are at it...

...let's ban kids from airplanes, too!

Just kidding, BTW, as a father of a very active 3-year old and enormously cute 1-year old, I know all about kids acting up. We do get the kids out to get them used to different situations, but if they start acting up (usually our son), we vacate the premises.

However, on a flight from Baltimore to San Antonio tonight, I had the misfortune to sit directly in front of a family of...hippies (for lack of a better term). The youngest (about 3) screamed at the top of her lungs for most of the flight and ran up and down the aisle several times...sans pants or diaper...nice. The two older kids were fairly well behaved, but the parents made no visible effort to calm or quiet the younger one.

Thank the stars I had my MP3 player...nothing like Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" at max volume to drown out the screams !

I just don't get people sometimes...

~ OO

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

Personally, I don't see a problem with what he did.

"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."

Means I can walk up to you and say: "GET OUT!" if I don't like the way you tied your shoes.

His business may suffer for it, it may not.

But honestly, some of these "I'm God's Special Little Sparkly Snowflake" people need to take some responsibility for the fact they are raising selfish, self indulgent, ill manner, socially unacceptable little rotten podlings that could use with some good discipline.

I have FOUR kids, from 18 to 8. I would NEVER tolerate my children running up and down the aisles. Throwing food in a resteraunt. Screaming "BUY ME THAT!" at the top of their lungs, calling me stupid, calling thier mother names, throwing themselves on the floor and kicking and screaming, or any of the other things you can see daily in the stores.

The kids need discipline. The parents need to learn that if they raise animals, they'll be asked to leave thier pets at home.

And if the poor widdle soccer mom wants to relax, she can do what the rest of us do: Get a babysitter, or wait until the kids are asleep and crack open a bottle of Jack Black Label.

 

[StupidSmurf]

According to news items, the man's business has actually INCREASED. Good for him!

 

[mojo1701]

My aunt and uncle do the same thing whenever they come over to our house for a birthday or something. They'll plop my younger cousin with my brother, my cousin (the younger's older brother, who's younger than me), and me. It doesn't help that the older cousin doesn't exactly help (in fact, he's the source of the younger's tantrums more often than not).

 

[Xath]

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