Some Restaurants- Adults Only

It is a disturbance and I know when we were children my Mother could take us anywhere..she only had to look at us.

It depends on the restaurant, some restaurants cater to families and some don't. But it's not a good idea to take children to a restaurant where they cater to adults. It's not fair on the kids, either, because it may require a type of behavior from them that they are not yet capable of displaying.

You just want a place to be taken over by @howard96h and his merry apron, adult coloring books and brownies..i can see the place now

I don´t know whether there should be adult only restaurants. But what I´m sure of is that parents should make their children behave or else. The nice children should not pay for what the other children did.

I object to parents who take their kids out and expect everybody else to keep an eye on them.

My hubby and I went to lunch in a seafood restaurant. Touristy not cheap place. We invited my niece and her little daughter. Little daughter skipped around, rearranging a vacant table's napkins and water glasses. Niece finally got her kiddo corralled. I found the little one obnoxious as she intently stripped the restaurant's crayons of their papers. Maybe children expect such freedom these days? And when they get their food, they don't eat it?

Marcy..I love kids. I would never take them where they would feel so out of place or others would be uncomfortable because of my kids. So I think it is the parents who needed some nut tightening because they should have by now realized that kids are going to be playful.

I think the parents should have taught the children how to behave in public places Well,if the children never behave properly, they should not have been taken along. It is more the fault of the parents.

Not all parents disciplined their children and teach them how to act in the public, specially in the restaurants. So, I think it's better if establishments would just serve adults and not those with children because it causes disturbance with other customers.

Although I do adore the little ones, there is a time and a place for them. Quite often if we are going to go out for a nice dinner, we want to relax and unwind together, and I can understand parents wanting to do the same, but that is when they need to hire a babysitter so that the atmosphere at the eatery is quiet and relaxing and not full of shouts and screams. And at the rate that our society is changing, I think that some establishments need to enforce a no cellphone conversation policy. Have you ever been out and had to listen to someone talking away on their cellphone? It is never a quiet conversation, and usually you see other patrons rolling their eyes when that occurs.

When I first saw the title of your discussion I thought it might be like a few restaurants we had here where the waitresses were topless and the waiter wore skimpy Speedo bathing suits!! PS They are all closed now--no business!!!

I have kids and I know they act up but I say and do something I don't know how some people just sit there my kids know better. We tell them all the time you behave in public

It is totally and completely irresponsible of the parents to allow their children to run riot especially in a restaurant. I chastised my grandson only the other day for leaving the table when he had not finished his meal and I don't care if I am deemed the old grumpy grandad. We would never have dared do that when we were younger! Oh my! Well I hope you enjoyed the rest of your meal in peace! Bravo to the parents who show their kids manners!

That sounds like a great idea to me.

People should learn to not let their children run wild, as that spoils things for other people. Unfortunately, there are too many parents who have no control over their kids or who think that it's OK/normal and everyone else should just put up with it. It's a shame because it means that those of us with well-raised children miss out on a nice experience, either because someone else's brat is spoiling things or because a place has too many such experiences and decides to become adult only. I do think it's funny when people say they'll never go somewhere again when it's entirely their own problem and they wouldn't be welcome again anyway. I also think that it wouldn't hurt for some places to be child-free. As I said, it wouldn't be so bad if people controlled their kids so you didn't even notice they were there, but many don't. I have seen some places with signs such as 'well-behaved children welcome, other children will be given coffee'

Nobody is enjoying themselves when children are running wild and not being disciplined. My children behave very well in public and we're often complimented by others on the behavior of our children in public places such as that. It drives me crazy that some parents don't keep control of their children.

It's a shame they let their children behave badly.

I can understand the manager.

I'd take a guess that the first family eat at a dining table at home, while the second let their kids eat in front of the TV with no adults around. Some youngster don't know how to behave because they've never had good role models.

I hate going anywhere where there are unbehaved children. It is the parent(s) duties to make sure children behave. You're right, some parents just let them run rampant. My parents would take all 5 of us girls to dine out and we knew how to behave, in public, at least! We fought often at home, but knew how to behave when we ventured out of the house! And my 3 children always behaved in restaurants and grocery and department stores.