The War on Brats

[MouseMadness]

Two things I am thinking, as I have now gone back and read the entire article :lol: (I had heard this on the radio last week, so I was familiar with the story) But:

Children were climbing the cafe's poles. A couple were blithely reading the newspaper while their daughter lay on the floor blocking the line for coffee.

OBVIOUSLY wrong and

Miller said that one day when her son, then 4 months old, was fussing, a staff member rolled her eyes and announced for all to hear, "We've got a screamer!"

Also wrong. Singling her out was uncalled for. While I understand some people don't like children, and have no intentions of having any, I'd wager that a better percentage of the childless population still intends to have kids someday... I just have to hope that that "staff member" is treated with more respect, should she eventually choose to have kids.

 

[DDuckFan130]

God bless our teachers :lol: (And future ones!! :wave: )

:wave:

 

[hcswingfield]

I love brats. I especially love them when they are grilled and served with sauteed onions and hot mustard.:lol:

 

[wannab@dis]

I love brats. I especially love them when they are grilled and served with sauteed onions and hot mustard.:lol:

:slurp:

now we're talking about real brats. :lol:

 

[BeachClubVillas]

I don't have a problem with restaurants saying that children need to be well-behaved. It's the parents' responsibility to watch their children, but often they don't. And when you have kids rolling around in the aisles, combined with waiters and waitresses carrying trays of hot food, the situation can get downright dangerous.

That said, I do have a problem when any establishment (restaurant, hotel, etc.) sets an age limit. I've seen hotels that say "no one under 10 can stay here" and so on. Saturday, I took my 21 month old cousin out to lunch. He was excellent. He sat in a booster seat, smiled at the waitress, and ate chicken fingers and fries. He never yelled, never cried and didn't spill a thing. Across from us was a teenaged boy who had obviously just gotten his license on a date with a girl. He was very nervous, and he was talking SO loudly about how many times he had crashed on the way to the restaurant that nobody around him could talk to whoever they were with. He was literally screaming. I know he was nervous and trying to impress his date, and I'm not saying that teenagers should be banned from restaurants (I'm not that far out of the teens myself). I'm just saying that it's not always babies and young children who cause commotion.

 

[disneymoc]

When I first read this thread title, why was I thinking about Bratwurst?

 

[tigsmom]

:lol:

Is that like what some sports people would call, a pre-game ritual?

:lol:

Just a bad habit!

 

[DisneyFreak529]

When I was a kid, being a brat in public was just not permitted, by either of my parents. My mother would look at me with those burning eyes! You knew what she was thinking.
"Either stand there and shut up or I'm gona take you in the car and give you a reason to act like a brat."

When she said be quiet, you were QUIET!!

Kids just arn't scaried of there parents. My parents never hit me, but I was scaried of them. My brother was the brat in the store running around like an animal. My mom aways gave him a spanking or two in public.

 

[DMC-12]

Right past the sign warning the cafe's customers that "Children of all ages have to behave and use their indoor voices when coming to A Taste of Heaven," and right into a nasty spat roiling the stroller set in Chicago's changing Andersonville neighborhood.

Cool... a resturant I have to try in Andersonville now :sohappy: :sohappy: :lookaroun

 

[DMC-12]

Also wrong. Singling her out was uncalled for. While I understand some people don't like children, and have no intentions of having any, I'd wager that a better percentage of the childless population still intends to have kids someday... I just have to hope that that "staff member" is treated with more respect, should she eventually choose to have kids.

How so? I do it all the time, in the airport, on the plane, in the grocerie store... I do so in maybe hoping the parents will notice my disgust and me NOT wanting to have to be subjected to their awful childrens, ear piercing, brain melting, screams. I am out with friends and family... paying for a nice dinner or breakfast, and I dont want to be subjected to them (the parents of said screaming, out of control child) not being able to control their kids and their brain melting screams.

Get control of your childen... make them stop kicking my seat on the plane and sceaming in my ear... and then I wont say anything. :wave:

 

[MouseMadness]

How so? I do it all the time, in the airport, on the plane, in the grocerie store... I do so in maybe hoping the parents will notice my disgust and me NOT wanting to have to be subjected to their awful childrens, ear piercing, brain melting, screams. I am out with friends and family... paying for a nice dinner or breakfast, and I dont want to be subjected to them (the parents of said screaming, out of control child) not being able to control their kids and their brain melting screams.

Get control of your childen... make them stop kicking my seat on the plane and sceaming in my ear... and then I wont say anything. :wave:

A four month old who is crying? :veryconfu That's just $hitty. To turn around and roll your eyes and yell "we've got a screamer" makes her just as badly behaved as anybody. If it had been a four year old, and somebody had come over and said calmly, discreetly, dare I say POLITELY, to please leave until the child is under control, then fine.

But you can't tell me that was ok. Well, you can, but we will disagree. :lol:

 

[DMC-12]

A four month old who is crying? :veryconfu That's just $hitty. To turn around and roll your eyes and yell "we've got a screamer" makes her just as badly behaved as anybody. If it had been a four year old, and somebody had come over and said calmly, discreetly, dare I say POLITELY, to please leave until the child is under control, then fine.

But you can't tell me that was ok. Well, you can, but we will disagree. :lol:

NOT a four MONTH old.. but a four YEAR old... yes. Sorry... I "read" 4 year old... :lol: :hammer:

 

[wannab@dis]

Get control of your childen... make them stop kicking my seat on the plane and sceaming in my ear... and then I wont say anything. :wave:

I understand your point... but, you can probably tell when the child is being a brat or when they are just being a child.

If a little one is just being a "kid" then I can give them more leeway. However, if they are being a brat, then it can irritate me enough to throw "the glance" towards their parents. The appalling thing is the lack of response that I so often get from "the glance". :lookaroun

 

[DMC-12]

I understand your point... but, you can probably tell when the child is being a brat or when they are just being a child.

If a little one is just being a "kid" then I can give them more leeway. However, if they are being a brat, then it can irritate me enough to throw "the glance" towards their parents. The appalling thing is the lack of response that I so often get from "the glance". :lookaroun

I DO give leeway as well.. sorry.. I should of explained... I TRY to ignore it for the first couple of min. If it CONTINUES... and nothing is done by the parents to quell the situation... then... I give the "look of death" (or as you call it "the glance" ) as well. :lol:

 

[wannab@dis]

I DO give leeway as well.. sorry.. I should of explained... I TRY to ignore it for the first couple of min. If it CONTINUES... and nothing is done by the parents to quell the situation... then... I give the "look of death" (or as you call it "the glance" ) as well. :lol:

Yeah... we're on the same wavelength. :lol:

For the record... the brat in the row behind you on an airplane can make for a VERY meaningful "glance".

 

[TAC]

You mean the same one that continually kicks your seat the entire flight?

Bill Cosby: Little Jeffrey. I remember his name, not because he said, "I'm four years old," but because Jeffrey's mother said his name all 2500 miles of the trip.

For the record... the brat in the row behind you on an airplane can make for a VERY meaningful "glance".

 

[DMC-12]

Yeah... we're on the same wavelength. :lol:

For the record... the brat in the row behind you on an airplane can make for a VERY meaningful "glance".

Yeah... and I KNOW I am flying to Orlando, or coming BACK from Orlando there is going to be a LOT of kids on the flight... and I cut them a LOT of slack (heck, I am going to WDW to, and I am all excited as well...lol)... but like after the 10th time of kicking my seat... thats it.. you will see me turning around and giving them the look of death. :lol:

 

[MouseMadness]

I gotta admit that the girls kicking the backs of people's seats has caused me more aggrivation on planes than anything. I have literally held legs down to keep them from doing it. :lol: (It's usually the one in a car seat still who does it, which means they are a bit too young to understand that the person in front of us is about to turn around and open a can of whoop a$$) :lol: But on the whole, I usually get compliments about how well behaved they are. And I give credit where credit is due.

Benadryl. :lol: :sohappy:

 

[wannab@dis]

Yeah... and I KNOW I am flying to Orlando, or coming BACK from Orlando there is going to be a LOT of kids on the flight... and I cut them a LOT of slack (heck, I am going to WDW to, and I am all excited as well...lol)... but like after the 10th time of kicking my seat... thats it.. you will see me turning around and giving them the look of death. :lol:

I'm going to be on a flight in a couple of weeks to WDW. It will be the first flight from my 19mo old daughter. We're thinking of adding a little Benedryl to her breakfast. :lookaroun

(Hey, it's on the advice of her Doctor!) :lol:

EDIT:

Looks like we have the same Dr, Christy! :lol:

 

[speck76]

Some have written "it is just kids being kids"

well, that right there might be the problem. Less people are having kids now, more than ever....and they don't want to be around "kids being kids"

Not all establishments are meant for kids, but for some reason, many parents do not understand that. Most responsible parents would not bring their child to a bar, as it is not the right environment for children, but these same parents don't think twice when towing the kids along to a fine-dining restaurant.....even though it is also not the right environment for children.