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Fivesomes. Even worse, two in a row in front of you. Even worse, they were sent out that way.
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I went to dinner last night with my wife and a close friend of ours. We chose Landry's Seafood House a nice white linens establishment on Kemah boardwalk near our home. We were enjoying a great conversation and a wonderful meal when a family was seated near us with 4 young children who had clearly never been taught how to act in public!! Next thing you know kids are screaming and running around the restaurant!! I understand that they had the right to dine there just as we did, however if you have children that can't behave they don't belong in such an establishment. I don’t know how the parents could just sit there and not try to correct the behavior at all.
The second part of my rant is..... If you take children to a seafood house would you encourage them to try shrimp, crab, and fish whatever it may be or just limit them to the kids menu of corndogs, pizza, and chicken nuggets?? Growing up my mom encouraged me to eat whatever I wanted as long as I ate it. The family was so loud that you could hear them strike down the children’s request to share fried shrimp and to get a pizza or something off the kids menu. I was completely annoyed by the time that our dessert course arrived it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as it could have been because it felt as if we were in Chuck E Cheese rather than a nice restaurant.
Probably shouldn't have touched the kid though.
I don't agree C-Tech - you shouldn't touch a child. Your friend could have made his point without touching the child.
The kid would've just kept running and grabbed it off the next table?
Floppy - Is that the voice of experience speaking? :wink:
hehe, just from what I've seen.
Well - you are closer to that age than I am. If someone grabbed your arm - would your parents be ok with that?
I'd knock the guy out.
I was referring to kids around 4-7 years old.
Well - you are closer to that age than I am. If someone grabbed your arm - would your parents be ok with that?
The kid comes over and reaches for my friend's shakers and he grabs the kid's arm and says VERY LOUDLY, "Son, if you touch anything on my table, I am whipping your Daddy's butt right here."
People don't discipline their kids at all. I was teaching little girls ballet (the WORST job in the world, these moms are my age and don't do jack as far as raising their kids to have manners). One girl would never pay any attention in class, run around, hide, dig through my purse and props, etc. I told my boss, she gave me a chart to give gold stars and a treasure chest to earn a treasure out of, at the end of each class. Every girl got gold star stickers at the end of every week. My boss talked to this girl's mom, whatever.
Well, this little hellion girl, after threatening numerous times, I finally gave her a sticker but said she'd have to pay attention better to earn a treasure next week. She went home and cried to her mom she didn't get a treasure, then told her it was because she "wasn't a good enough dancer." The mom called my boss to have me fired. My boss called me to straighten out the story within hours.
My boss believed me, but the fact she was even called, and the fact that she believed the mom enough to call me, was all just bull.
It gets me thinking back to my youth and how if I even attempted to pull something like that my parents would snatch me up and embarass the carp out of me in front of everyone. This type of discipline does wonders for developing children in to responsible members of society and is a lost art in a world of political correctness.
I can't believe people think "Time Out" works as a discipline tool. The sad thing is that it started with people around my age! Bottoms are padded for a reason! We used to get swats in Junior High School and the teachers would gather around to watch! Of course, so did as many students as possible!