Crying Baby in Public

I think that it would only be out of courtesy to leave if the baby was upset and crying. It is not fair to others. I would never leave out of embarrassment, you should never be embarrassd of your child, but for other paying customers it would only be fair.

Handling babies is very tough specially when u'r in a public place. Recently we went to pizza hut.Being sunday it was a very crowded place. First we had to wait for 30-35 mins. Then we sat at our table,ordered our pizza.He took quite some time to deliver our things.My son put his hands on the plate & threw the plate on the floor. It created such a loud noise, everybody started looking at us. I felt so embarrased that i told my hubby to get the stuff packed & i left the place in a hurry.

A small kid or baby will never stop crying or respond to us no matter how softly or gentlely we try hard to speak to it. The only thing that could make it to forget about crying is how to arouse its attention by doing something unique and funny like grimacing, making sound of animals, whistling like bird chirps... The most efficient way is to bring its mom to it lol...

Yes, if my child even made a whimper in public, I would take them to private area. It is rude and innapropriate to keep a crying child where it bothers others. I will always take my child outside, or to the bathroom until they calm down. Fortunetelly, I have discovered the PACIFIER! It works wonders!

If any of our children start crying in a restaurant and will not stop or if they are bothering anyone in a restaurant at all, we will leave as soon as possible. Not so much because of embarrassment but because I believe that it is very inconsiderate to have badly behaved children or crying babies in a restaurant. People are in those places to relax and enjoy spending their money. I do not want to hear crying children or babies and I won't do that to other people. We don't eat out with the children much instead we get it to go or get delivery.

Well if you have a crying baby then don't go out anymore. Better stay at home and take care of the baby, to avoid embarrassment anyway.

If my son was crying while out in public, like a theatre, I would leave the minute he started in because of embarrassment and out of respect to the others. I would just walk around outside the theatre until he was calm again. If I was in a restaurant, I wouldn't get up and leave right there, I would try to calm him down first, because sometimes a baby will cry for a split second and it's not worth jumping up every time. It's not a big deal. But is my son was just screaming, then I would probably have to ask for the check and leave. I don't think it's right for a owner or anyone at that to tell someone to leave because a child is crying, unless it's really bad and after a certain amount of time the baby didn't stop, then I would probably advice them to step out and calm the child down. I hear babies crying/screaming all the time in restaurants, it never really bothers me, but bothers me is when it happens in a theatre.

I would try to calm my child down by holding him or her but if they wouldn't calm down then I wouldn't probably ask for a take our if it were in a restaurant and if it was in the theater then I would probably take my little one outside and try to calm her down and once she did then I would go back in . I would be like you and woulnd be embarrassed just because everyone would be looking your way to see what was going on . I have never had this happen though as we didn't really take our children to places like this until they were older and so we never had to worry about it .

I never stay in a resturant or other public place if one of my kids started crying. I have even gone up to customer service with a full cart of groceries and left it there with great apologies if my kid started throwing a fit. I get very irrated with people who just keep pushing the kids to just stop acting up and never think about the other people around them.

I would never take my 16 month old to a theater. I'm going to try the drive in this summer when I'm in Missouri, but if he starts crying, we can always roll up the windows and put the ac on. If he still cries a lot, we will leave. As for the restaurant thing, I think it depends on what kind of restaurant you are at. We don't take our son anywhere nice really. We have taken him to higher end casual eating restaurant twice, and that's it. Both times he did really well. He has, however, had a meltdown at Denney's. We didn't leave. We calmed him back down and gave him a snack while he waited for his food. We didn't get any dirty looks or anything, because it's kind of expected that a baby will cry or a small child will make some noise when you go into a restaurant like that. He only cried for about 1-2 minutes, too. He was also tired, but we were having a really busy day, and he had to take his nap in the car. He wouldn't go to sleep until he ate, and we didn't really want to feed him in the car, so we had to stop and have lunch out somewhere. We had an appointment at 10 that morning that lasted until almost 11. Then we had another appointment scheduled for 1:30, and they were both about 20-25 miles from home, so it would have been unrealistic for us to go home to feed him, only to turn around and put him right back in the car and head back to town.

Been there, done that! Hey, I like babies. Really, I do. However, if you know that your baby cries at the drop of a hat, I do not think you should take them to the restaurant. If you do, one parent or person should be prepared to go outside with the baby. As for theatres, sheesh! Whoever heard of taking a baby to a theatre? Really, how can you enjoy a movie while you are holding a baby? Where theatres are concerned when person is in line for tickets or get in the theatre, the usher should say that they do not allow babies.

Yes, I have always taken my child to a less public place when he would not stop crying. I also feel that it is inconsiderate and unfair to the other people in the resturaunt. I even do this with my neices kids when we are all out in public if the kids are crying loudly. I don't think that I would feel very good about it if the resturaunt owners were the ones that would have to ask me to leave. I think that I would feel harrassed at that point.

I have a 7 1/2 month old daughter and if she cried while we were out I would take her outside and try to calm her down, I must admit now I am a mum and I hear a baby cry in a restaurant I am alot more tolerant that I used to be as I know how unpredictable babies can be, but I would still remove myself from the restaurant calm her down and then come back and if I couldnt get her to calm down I would go home, not out of embarrassment but just because my baby doesnt scream alot and I would want to figure out what was wrong and I couldnt do that in a restaurant

I would nt leave a restaurant if my baby was crying just for the delight of the other people. I would leave a theatre as the purpose of a theatre is to watch and listen to a movie. You cant expect peace and quiet at a restaurant. It is so hard for parents to go out with out them worrying also about their crying baby upsetting other people. The parents would nt of wanted their baby to cry either so they could enjoy their meal too. Owners of businesses should not be able to askpeople with crying babies to leave, if that was the case I would nt (and most mothers) would nt be able to go out

I have never been in this situation, i have a 5 month old little girl and shes a happy little thing i dont have much trouble with her at all, if im going out i feed her and make sure she has a clean nappy on before i go and as long as she has a little attention shes quiet and will more than likely fall asleep, if i was in the situation then yes i would take her out of the resturant to calm her down, if it doesnt work then its time to go home.

Babies can be very unpredictable... Sometimes I felt that they did it on purpose... That was my thoughts about my boy when he was a baby... Everytime when I brought him along to have a so-called 'romantic' dinner with my hubby, he would start his 'nonsense'. We would end up cutting short our dinner and head for home... It's pretty distressing. I had to bring him along as I do not have anyone to look after him... I would never dare to step into a theatre with a baby in case of such issues... I think it's ok for theatre ushers to make people leave if their baby is wailing but for restaurants, I hope they would give parents a break too..

Why would you have your baby in a theatre anyway ? Yes I would leave if I couldn't calm the baby down and have had to do so. You shouldn't have to be asked to leave but I think at least in theatres they have the right to ask you to remove the child.

First of all, babies circumstances. However, if a baby in a movie theatre is crying, then the parents should ask to take the baby out of the theatre as a courtesy to others. In a restaurant however, I think it depends on where. In a family restaurant, you certainly expect to hear babies crying and one would hope that parents come well prepared for it with toys, a bottle, pacifier and anything else that could calm a baby down. Babies don't belong in any other kind of restaurants except fast food. I once brought my son to a Japanese restaurant and although he was very good, I got a lot of dirty looks. So, leave the crying baby with a babysitter or a relative and treat yourself to a nice meal. Parents deserve that any way.

I think it's correct to take your child away from the other customers. However it is not right for the management to ask the parents to leave. I wonder why parents would take a tired child to a restaurant in the first instance, when they could always order a carry out and avoid the hassle.

I would and have left because as annoying it is for you is as annoying for the mother and baby. I would go to the car if nothing else and settle baby down or go for a quite stroll. If it was just my husband and myself I would leave. If I was waiting on a meal before baby started I would ask for a doggy bag and go home. But from past experience going to the car until baby has settled normal works.