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by Surgeon General on June 28th, 2007

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How do you feel about parents who take their young, noisy children (like, baby age through about age 7) into quiet places like a nice restaurant or church service? Do you get annoyed, or do you accept that the parents might have had no other option?

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  • by Eltinwe has a life Swan - DYOH on June 28th, 2007

    Eltinwe has a life Swan - DYOH

    I have a young child who is, at times, "rambunctious". When she was a baby I took her with us to movies and restaurants. Usually I tried to plan it at a time she would be asleep. If she woke up and started crying, I ALWAYS took her out. I can't enjoy a movie or eating with a screaming child any more than anyone else can, so why mess it up for everyone else as well as myself.

    Now, I only take her to movies she can handle - kid movies, generally, though if we go see Simpsons, she'll probably come. I still take her to restaurants, but she is NOT allowed to get down and run around in any area with anyone else in it, unless they have specifically said it was okay with them. We often go off-hours and there aren't many people there. It makes it easier on the wait staff and on us too.

    The entire time she has joined us in church, except for a short stint in the nursery when she wasn't sleeping, but wasn't old enough to know what "no" meant, and definitely couldn't sit still for an hour. At this point, she "takes notes" by writing dot-to-dot letters of words we make for her, and we line out the singing for her, so she can sing along.

    I once missed most of a movie for her, and she's been taken out of a restaurant only once for bad behavior, and given a "time out" on a bench outside where she could yell with impunity.

    I don't understand parents who have badly-behaved children. It's not the kid (if it were, mine has that tendency herself) but the parenting that is at fault, and even small children can be trained to behave properly.

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    • even small children can be trained to behave properly.

      True. But so many people are making them behave worse....because they lack understanding which is something all kids and all people need....and because they spank them. To me spanking is a great reason to make someone's life a living hell. Anyway this is not the topic though. The problem is kids need attention....and their parents give them either the wrong attention or not attention at all. Of course it is not the kid's fault that they behave the way they do. They're obviously feeling that something is wrong around them....but they can't always name what is wrong. Neither can I sometimes. Sometimes I feel everything is annoying. I don't always know though what exactly annoys me....so everyone else around me is paying the price.

      John_A2462

      by John_A2462 on January 28th, 2011

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