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In reply to the discussion: Adults that spoil kids aggravate me [View all]Irishonly
(3,344 posts)I remember when my daughter was three and we went to out to eat at a nicer restaurant. We heard the people next to us ask that we be moved or they be moved and they were refused. My daughter was very well behaved because we expected her to. After the couple finished their dinner they came over to our table and shook my husband and my hand. They couldn't believe that a child was that well behaved. I think they probably had no time for kids that made any noise at all.
Another time we went out to eat with our bil and sil with their daughter who is 2 months older than our daughter. We were horrified. If someone had told me my neice could be so badly behaved I wouldn't have believed them. She did all of the things written about in this thread. She ran, screamed and bothered people eating and my bil and sil did nothing. They thought she was cute. We didn't go out to eat again with them for years.
I thought nothing about taking my daughter with me/us anywhere. She wasn't always an angel and she would be disciplined when she didn't behave correctly. I never took her where she would not be welcomed and a friendship ended when a friend didn't want her to come to dinner. We were a family. My husband and I had date nights but not many. They are children for such a short time.