Screaming children will not be tolerated!

[sunnyday123]

I say we plan a road trip to NC just to eat in this restaurant!

 

[npcougar]

Nice to see someone taking a stand. I don't see this as anything against special needs.

 

[Hannathy]

I say we plan a road trip to NC just to eat in this restaurant!

perfect place for a DIS meet!

 

[Robinrs]

What do you guys think of this restaurant policy?

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/offbeat/restaurant-bans-screaming-children-20100909

While we're at it can they make it a MOVIE policy? How about GROCERY policy? Heck how about a ANY STORE I'M IN policy?

 

[redlight]

The restaurant owner isn't banning children...just children that are SCREAMING. She said that wait staff would ask parents of misbehaving children to take them outside until they calm down. This is just common courtesy, and in my mind, if the wait staff has to ask, then the parents aren't really doing their jobs.

Exactly.

I like the policy.

 

[doxdogy]

So a grocery store is not an "experience" so she can have a meltdown and you just let it go until she is finished? What about the other shoppers? When I am grocery shopping I don't want to "experience" 3-5 minutes of a meltdown.

My DD 19 months is at the age where she occasionally experiments with tantrums. My policy is always that I ignore her to teach her it won't work IF we are at a place where I don't feel it will affect someone's experience. So if we are a restaurant, show, art museum then I remove her and let her finish it outside. If we are at the grocery store, mall etc then I just let her go to town and she is usually done in 3-5 minutes. I know it might annoy someone but I figure that going to the grocery store isn't really an "experience" so much as a task or chore. As a result she learned fast that it doesn't work and we rarely have one anyway.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Robin, I think we need t-shirts!

 

[Magic Mom]

Robin, I think we need t-shirts!

Here you go!

It comes in a hoodie too.

 

[JerseyJanice]

Does no one besides me have the ability to tune out annoying noises? I don't really notice screaming kids in public that much, possibly because I don't have any screaming kids.

Or maybe it's because I'm used to tuning out noise because it's so busy where I live. Sounds like screaming children, barking dogs and heavy traffic don't faze me at all.

 

[phorsenuf]

Here you go!

It comes in a hoodie too.

For some reason that cracked me up!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Reading the article...I like it. Sad that a parent would have to be asked to take the child out...but at the same time, glad it isn't a permanent kick out. Just sounds like an official restaurant policy to have an automatic timeout when parents choose to do nothing with their screaming kids. I like it.

Mom of 4, ages 10 and under

 

[Diznygrl]

Here you go!

It comes in a hoodie too.

Does it come with earplugs?

 

[npcougar]

Does it come with earplugs?

Yes, the knots at the end of the hoodie strings double as earplugs!

 

[phorsenuf]

Yes, the knots at the end of the hoodie strings double as earplugs!

 

[okeydokey]

Autistic or not, no screaming child belongs in a restaurant. Nobody has the right to disrupt the dinner of every guest in the place. Sad for the parents of the screaming kid but life is like that sometimes. Maybe the autistic child will grow and learn some self control and the family can try restaurants again. If not, oh well.

 

[KimR]

Does no one besides me have the ability to tune out annoying noises? I don't really notice screaming kids in public that much, possibly because I don't have any screaming kids.

Or maybe it's because I'm used to tuning out noise because it's so busy where I live. Sounds like screaming children, barking dogs and heavy traffic don't faze me at all.

I can't tune it out although I wish I could. And it's not just that it's annoying, although there's that too. Screaming at a certian pitch is actually painful to me. I guess that's why I was never able to tune it out even with my own kids.

 

[Robinrs]

Robin, I think we need t-shirts!

Here you go!

It comes in a hoodie too.

Love it!!

Does no one besides me have the ability to tune out annoying noises? I don't really notice screaming kids in public that much, possibly because I don't have any screaming kids.

Or maybe it's because I'm used to tuning out noise because it's so busy where I live. Sounds like screaming children, barking dogs and heavy traffic don't faze me at all.

I used to be able to zone them out, but it annoys the heck out of me now. I guess now that I have one everyone's besides mine makes me crazy, before I wanted one so bad, everything they did was soooo cute.... uh, NOT ANYMORE!!!

I grew up in the noisiest town in the world, I can ignore just about ANYTHING but a child's cry. The mother in me wants it to STOP! I find myself madder at the parent than the child.

 

[mamacatnv]

1 shirt, 1 hoodie and what time is the meet? I'm down with that!

 

[minkydog]

Autistic or not, no screaming child belongs in a restaurant. Nobody has the right to disrupt the dinner of every guest in the place. Sad for the parents of the screaming kid but life is like that sometimes. Maybe the autistic child will grow and learn some self control and the family can try restaurants again. If not, oh well.

I am totally with you on that. My youngest is profoundly mentally handicapped and autistic. He doesn't "get" the concept of 'being nice" or "using good manners." However, we have spent literally 15 years now teaching him every day what kind of behavior is acceptable and what is not. His every day behavior is his "good manners"--we don't turn that off and on. With a kid like mine, you have to be consistent day in, day out, for years on end to get the behavior response you want. We started when he was a baby, just barely sitting up at the table. No throwing cups, spoons or food. No shrieking. The concequences are always the same--you act out, you leave the table. The rules for Christian are exactly the same as my rules for my other two kids. I have spent a few evenings eating our meals out of a styrofoam container in the car. ANd there was a long period in which we simply couldn't go to a restaurant, concert, or church service with him. So one of us stayed home and the other went with the kids to the event. That's how it's done. No one ever needed to post a sign to get me to do the right thing. Its simple common courtesy--when the kids either can't or won't behave, remove the little offender until he/she can regain control or go home if you have to. It won't kill a parent to skip a few restaurant meals while their little ones are learning the ropes.

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

I am really impressed that the restaurant owner is doing the right thing. Although, I do agree that it is sad that people need a sign to tell them they should remove a screaming child so they don't disrupt everyone else's dinner.

Minkydog, you sound like a great mom.