Nobody seems to have noticed that the restaurant itself should have certain rules for general entertainment. For instance if I was to stand on the table and scream, I would be possibly kicked out. Or if as an adult I was to go to others tables and push against their chairs disturbing their eating, I would also be told to curb my activities.
However, when it comes to children the restaurants seem to say nothing at all to the parents & nannies?? Why is this? I don't understand the restaurant manager's attitude here. Public places should be for all to enjoy, old, middle, and young. Areas are usually set aside for kids to run around in, but the faults seem to lie with the establishment as much as with the parents and kids. The staff should intervene delicately at first, and with an iron fist later. But that doesn't happen here, so we live with it.
As a mum of 5, I like kids being able to participate in everything, but not to the detriment of others. On airlines, they often separated me from my kids in seating (and suffered the consequences) - and I couldn't get them to change the seating no matter what! Why do they do it I ask.
Having said that, there are some really lousy kids, and lousy adults. Sometimes they are related, sometimes not. Great kids reflect great parenting I think, but not always. There is always a chance of an independent thinker doing his/her own thing at a very early age, and causing much grief to the parents at the same time.
Be thankful you can sit down to eat. Some folks got nothing for Christmas.
Angel.
Nobody seems to have noticed that the restaurant itself should have certain rules for general entertainment. For instance if I was to stand on the table and scream, I would be possibly kicked out. Or if as an adult I was to go to others tables and push against their chairs disturbing their eating, I would also be told to curb my activities.
However, when it comes to children the restaurants seem to say nothing at all to the parents & nannies?? Why is this? I don't understand the restaurant manager's attitude here. Public places should be for all to enjoy, old, middle, and young. Areas are usually set aside for kids to run around in, but the faults seem to lie with the establishment as much as with the parents and kids. The staff should intervene delicately at first, and with an iron fist later. But that doesn't happen here, so we live with it.
As a mum of 5, I like kids being able to participate in everything, but not to the detriment of others. On airlines, they often separated me from my kids in seating (and suffered the consequences) - and I couldn't get them to change the seating no matter what! Why do they do it I ask.
Having said that, there are some really lousy kids, and lousy adults. Sometimes they are related, sometimes not. Great kids reflect great parenting I think, but not always. There is always a chance of an independent thinker doing his/her own thing at a very early age, and causing much grief to the parents at the same time.
Be thankful you can sit down to eat. Some folks got nothing for Christmas.
Angel.