I always say...
...the best form of birth control is other people's children.
On my favorite radio morning show yesterday, they talked about the Chicago bakery that has posted a sign stating that "children of all ages have to behave and use their indoor voices when coming to A Taste of Heaven."
This guy pretty well sums up my feelings on the subject.
Listen: If your kid cannot behave in public and use an inside voice, you should not be taking the kid to small, cozy cafes. Period. If the parent does have such a kid who cannot behave and that parent wants to go to said cafe, it's called a babysitter.
Can I get an Amen?
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Heh. I like the "children of all ages..." part. Amen to that too. I've seen adults behave much worse than their kids.
Oh, amen to that. The *second* your child begins bothering other people in *any* way, you take him or her outside until they can learn to behave.
I'm less bothered by noisy children than I am by noisy adults.
How do you teach an adult what an "inside voice" is, if they haven't learned already? Kick them in the windpipe? Ah, OK.
they did almost the same story on the Today Show. What gets me is when parents bring little ones to R rated movies at night. HELLO???
All the numbnuts who are up in arms about this haven't grasped the fact that their children should be on good behavior at all times. Even at home. Because when they're allowed to act like holy terrors at home and even on the playground, why should they suddenly see fit to behave just because they're in a cafe? They don't know any better. But if kids are taught to be mannerly and polite at all times, it's way easier to take them out in public because they aren't confused by the, "OK, now is the time to be good and you can run around like a little hellion later" mentality.
The fact that so many people parent their children poorly is the reasons I hate kids overall. Orderly children should not be the exception to the rule -- I know no one wants to admit that their PWECIOUS child is a jerk, but I don't see why I as a single, childfree person has to be pushed and shoved and run into by two-foot-tall terrors and their parents don't see fit to correct them, let alone apologize on their behalf.
I wonder if adults on cell phones are considered subject to this rule
OMG, the adults. With cell phones. Ack!
Cell phones should be banned inside public buildings. Restaurants, grocery stores, bars, theaters, coffee shops, etc. I wish they'd all intall cell phone scramblers.
Just like with all the recent smoking bans, people should have to go OUTSIDE to scream into their phones.
Amen!