Diners Deliver Scolding Note to Mom and Screaming Toddler

[titaniumsalute]

62. I call BS

Yes the patrons acted like idiots throwing down a note on the crying kid's table. That is just bad behavior.

However, as a parent of (now grown) two kids who ate out many times it is the parent's responsibility to gauge what level of disturbance should go on in public. Of course kids are kids. They make noise, they cry, they fuss. That's life. Many times a parent can calmly get them to stop making a disturbance. In public I expect to hear kids and be subjected to them acting normal. But when you have a child going off the deep end in public I think parents have a duty to limit the exposure of that disturbance. I don't care if it is a McDonalds, a Texas Roahouse, or a 5 star.

We had a pastor years ago who wanted kids in his service. He didn't have a cry room, etc. in the sanctuary. That was fine except some took it to mean to leave the kids in the service even if crying/fussing loudly. No one could hear many times which made it kind of useless to sit in a church service.

Airplanes...well that is a different story. I used to fly all over for work and many times got the screaming kid within a few seats. Yes a nerve test for sure but I'd always really sympathize with the parents in that case.