As a toddler, I once had a temper tantrum in a local store, my mother set down her basket on the spot, picked me up, marched me out of the store and to her car. She drove me home, dropped me off with my maternal gran, and then went back out to finish her shopping by herself. I was so shocked that I stopped crying the minute she began taking me out of the store, begging her that I would be good and not to take me home. My mother refused. I never bawled like that in public with her again because I knew what would happen.
So the way I see it is like this, if your child is behaving, take them to a restaurant, let them come out with you on your errand runs, and to family dinners out and about.
But if that child starts acting bratty and unruly, screaming, whining, and crying, it should be a parent's responsibility to take that child out of the restaurant until they have calmed down. A parent should do this out of respect for the other patrons in the restaurant, a restaurant should not have to take these measures. A parent should be teaching their children that this is negative behavior and will not be tolerated, not restaurant staff.
And if the child does not calm down before orders have been taken and placed, I honestly believe that the child should be taken home to learn that the be...
So the way I see it is like this, if your child is behaving, take them to a restaurant, let them come out with you on your errand runs, and to family dinners out and about.
But if that child starts acting bratty and unruly, screaming, whining, and crying, it should be a parent's responsibility to take that child out of the restaurant until they have calmed down. A parent should do this out of respect for the other patrons in the restaurant, a restaurant should not have to take these measures. A parent should be teaching their children that this is negative behavior and will not be tolerated, not restaurant staff.
And if the child does not calm down before orders have been taken and placed, I honestly believe that the child should be taken home to learn that the be...
As a toddler, I once had a temper tantrum in a local store, my mother set down her basket on the spot, picked me up, marched me out of the store and to her car. She drove me home, dropped me off with my maternal gran, and then went back out to finish her shopping by herself. I was so shocked that I stopped crying the minute she began taking me out of the store, begging her that I would be good and not to take me home. My mother refused. I never bawled like that in public with her again because I knew what would happen.
So the way I see it is like this, if your child is behaving, take them to a restaurant, let them come out with you on your errand runs, and to family dinners out and about.
But if that child starts acting bratty and unruly, screaming, whining, and crying, it should be a parent's responsibility to take that child out of the restaurant until they have calmed down. A parent should do this out of respect for the other patrons in the restaurant, a restaurant should not have to take these measures. A parent should be teaching their children that this is negative behavior and will not be tolerated, not restaurant staff.
And if the child does not calm down before orders have been taken and placed, I honestly believe that the child should be taken home to learn that the behavior will not be tolerated in public, just the way I was. A parent shouldn't be sitting there making empty threats like I've seen them do in the restaurant I work at or when I'm out on a quiet date with my boyfriend. I find the fact that their children are disrupting the entire restaurant with noise or running rampant and trashing multiple tables to be rude and disrespectful not only to that restaurant's staff but to everyone around them.
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(more)So the way I see it is like this, if your child is behaving, take them to a restaurant, let them come out with you on your errand runs, and to family dinners out and about.
But if that child starts acting bratty and unruly, screaming, whining, and crying, it should be a parent's responsibility to take that child out of the restaurant until they have calmed down. A parent should do this out of respect for the other patrons in the restaurant, a restaurant should not have to take these measures. A parent should be teaching their children that this is negative behavior and will not be tolerated, not restaurant staff.
And if the child does not calm down before orders have been taken and placed, I honestly believe that the child should be taken home to learn that the behavior will not be tolerated in public, just the way I was. A parent shouldn't be sitting there making empty threats like I've seen them do in the restaurant I work at or when I'm out on a quiet date with my boyfriend. I find the fact that their children are disrupting the entire restaurant with noise or running rampant and trashing multiple tables to be rude and disrespectful not only to that restaurant's staff but to everyone around them.
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Sock puppet.
If your kid is being a beast, take them OUTSIDE. As a parent you know your children better than anyone. Don't take your 3 year old to a restaurant when it's going to be time for their nap soon. I think a lot of parents simply don't time their outings accordingly. And you can't expect a small child to sit quietly while you have dinner at a restaurant for an hour or whatever. They're toddlers they don't have patience.
Hire a sitter if you want to go out.
of course, the option is up to me, i can go out, and possibly deal with hellions, or stay in.
I guarantee you, they won't misbehave after a good ass beating. ;)
=P
(JK)
ROFLMAO!!
So the way I see it is like this, if your child is behaving, take them to a restaurant, let them come out with you on your errand runs, and to family dinners out and about.
But if that child starts acting bratty and unruly, screaming, whining, and crying, it should be a parent's responsibility to take that child out of the restaurant until they have calmed down. A parent should do this out of respect for the other patrons in the restaurant, a restaurant should not have to take these measures. A parent should be teaching their children that this is negative behavior and will not be tolerated, not restaurant staff.
And if the child does not calm down before orders have been taken and placed, I honestly believe that the child should be taken home to learn that the be...
So the way I see it is like this, if your child is behaving, take them to a restaurant, let them come out with you on your errand runs, and to family dinners out and about.
But if that child starts acting bratty and unruly, screaming, whining, and crying, it should be a parent's responsibility to take that child out of the restaurant until they have calmed down. A parent should do this out of respect for the other patrons in the restaurant, a restaurant should not have to take these measures. A parent should be teaching their children that this is negative behavior and will not be tolerated, not restaurant staff.
And if the child does not calm down before orders have been taken and placed, I honestly believe that the child should be taken home to learn that the behavior will not be tolerated in public, just the way I was. A parent shouldn't be sitting there making empty threats like I've seen them do in the restaurant I work at or when I'm out on a quiet date with my boyfriend. I find the fact that their children are disrupting the entire restaurant with noise or running rampant and trashing multiple tables to be rude and disrespectful not only to that restaurant's staff but to everyone around them.
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It was especially annoying to see when I worked at Ihop. Parents do these things all the time. "If you keep crying you're not getting any dessert." Child keeps crying, cries louder because they won't get dessert, still get dessert in the end. Makes me just want to tell the adult they don't get dessert for their bad parenting. lol
The one evening, Jake and I were out at an Ihop together having dinner when a family of four sat in the booth beside us. They seemed okay at first, the little girl a little clingy to her mother but whatever right?
No. Of course not.
She started freaking out when her mom sat down with her little brother and was screaming and crying. And her dad made empty threats the whole time while they catered to her whims and switched places. Then the little boy acted like a douche bag the whole time and was very bratty. I spent most of my meal with a hand on Jake's leg encouraging him to not go give both a piece of his mind seeing has he hates parents like that even more than I do and doesn't like bratty kids either.
But sure enough, they were like "Oh, we'll go to the car if you don't stop" and did they? No. Not once. It was ridiculous!
Though, messy kids annoy me, too.
I was at work the other day and served a large group, 5 kids, 3 adults. The kids ran completely rampant the whole time, playing games, ripping apart the colouring books and crayon boxes that were available for them, and then the parents left that, their trash strewn all over the floor, and dirty napkins in the three booths that they used up while they were in there. And I hardly ever complain if I'm stiffed because its so rare but when they stiffed me I was livid.
Waitressing is a hard job and I hate people who put them down. I always tip and try to tip generously. And I'm always nice. Like I find myself apologizing even a food mess up was their fault or something. Just because I don't want to stress them out (or more importantly have anything happen to my food lol) and I always clean up after myself and put everything in a neat little pile. It's a habit now. lol
I was a great waitress, never had a complaint (well I did have one where the people had told my manager that my bangs were in the way of seeing my "beautiful" eyes lol) and made pretty good money. I was waitressing to pay for school.
There was this one lady and her daughter who came in one day and were just such rude people. She kept making comments like, "I don't understand how hard it is to take someone's order. It's not like your job actually entails ...
Waitressing is a hard job and I hate people who put them down. I always tip and try to tip generously. And I'm always nice. Like I find myself apologizing even a food mess up was their fault or something. Just because I don't want to stress them out (or more importantly have anything happen to my food lol) and I always clean up after myself and put everything in a neat little pile. It's a habit now. lol
I was a great waitress, never had a complaint (well I did have one where the people had told my manager that my bangs were in the way of seeing my "beautiful" eyes lol) and made pretty good money. I was waitressing to pay for school.
There was this one lady and her daughter who came in one day and were just such rude people. She kept making comments like, "I don't understand how hard it is to take someone's order. It's not like your job actually entails you to do anything." Nearly wanted to slap her face. But I held my composure. And then she had said this one thing that just made me want to go off the end when she said, "You're just a waitress."
People can be so rude. I just kind of smiled at her and walked off. And then had one of the cooks spit in her coffee :)
She was. And I really have no idea. I wasn't rude, didn't mess up on their orders. The only thing that was a little messed up was the fact that it took a while for their order to go through because our computer jammed and all of the orders weren't going through so everyone had to write them down. I explained it to her and she acted as if it were my fault it happened. Plus, the entire time she had the attitude of being above a place like Ihop. It was so annoying.
Ah, that's so stupid! I really dislike customers that act as though they're above the place when they've come there in the first place. It's not like someone forced them to be there.
I also am sending you something in your mailbox once I finish revising it a little bit.