Crying kids at restaurants
 

I’m sitting here at Big Bisquit trying to enjoy a nice breakfast. I’m solo this am as the family slept in. So, I though a nice, peaceful breakfast out would be a great way to start the day.

Unfortunately, this family with 5 kids in the 1 to 7 age range is seated right next to me. The 3ish year old boy starts bitching and crying. Mom, who obviously hasn’t ever heard of birth control, seems to think it’s cute. It’s a good thing I’m hungry, because I’d like to jam my biscuit in the little rat bastards mouth. Meanwhile, the next older brother is coughing non stop and sounds like he has whooping cough.

Now, my peaceful breakfast sucks, I may need antibiotics, and my blood pressure is up.

Take your sick and crying kids outside people. ****ing idiots.

And no, I can’t choke them out.
Flame away

Just choke them out.

Yay, now whooping cough is crying too.

People with kids shouldn’t take them anywhere. Got it.

You should have just hit a Hardee's drive thru, grabbed a pork chop biscuit.

Then went home and woke the wife up with a stiff poker

Kids cry. Who cares.

Im literally sitting in a hardees drive through right now waiting on my pork chop and gravy biscuit.

Kids cry sometimes. What are the parents supposed to do just never go anywhere? If you wanted a peaceful breakfast, you should have made it yourself and ate at home.

Well, at least it isn't the saddest thread he's made.

You know what to do next, hurry home :thumb:

Should've given those kids a good ol' fashioned whooping.

I did that before I left.

Tell 'em to stop crossing the border and go back to Overland Park because they obviously aren't the good border crossers

I took crying kids outside when they were little. You know, respect for others and all. And the crying wasn’t as bad as the sick coughing kid.

Lol. Like your good threads are? Quit breathing my air

Absolutely. When you have multiple kids in a short time frame, you revoke your public entertainment card for at least a few years. Don’t ruin other people’s enjoyment because you think it’s permissible to introduce your shitstain children to the entire world.

And yet, you clicked on it. I’d suggest you don’t read anything else I post.

I'll raise you shouting millennials with no self awareness squatting at brunch spots.

Should of made the dad cry.

You guys are missing my point. I think it is great that people take their kids out in public to restaurants and movies and other venues. I just think it would be considerate of others if when their kids are missed behaving that they would take them outside for a few minutes until they stop that is all

Who goes out on a Sunday morning for a quiet breakfast? Come' on, man

Should have just stayed home and tried to choke out your mattress snake

Yet another post proving you’re a dumb ****.

Everyone on CP is aware of your stupidity. There’s no reason to continue reminding us.

Especially Big Seabiscuit

With kids it's not so much the kid but the parent. Kids are going to cry, act-up, and do stupid things. But it's the parents that never discipline the kid when they do these things that get on my nerves.

Last flight I took this kid kept making the most god awful screaming noise and the mom kept trying to make him laugh. Never once did she correct him.

I always hate when my kids are missed behaving.

Swing and a missed behaving.

If you go to a more upscale place, you won't have this problem as much. Instead, you chose a cheap, family-friendly place.

cook your own food, idiot.

That's probably fair. Some people are super sensitive to any commotion by other people's kids. Some families are super insensitive no matter how great the commotion their own kids cause.

I like a breakfast spot with counter seating. If your alone its the best option because families never set up to a counter.

I get that kids are going to cry and misbehave sometimes, and sometimes the parents can't control them no matter what they do. Everyone knows that. It only really becomes annoying when the parents don't even attempt to control them, or they have taken them to obviously kid-inappropriate situations and are surprised when they act up.

I also understand a Mother alone with 5 kids cant leave the other young ones alone to take one outside with a tantrum.

The first thing parents should learn is discipline.

The first thing parents don't learn is discipline.

Yes, kids cry. But know how to handle it so that other are annoyed.

Hell, pick up her tab... At least you know she ****s

Deal with it bitch

Reading this thread makes it very clear to me why so many kids are and will grow up to be huge assholes.

"Kids act like assholes, what can you do?"

Be a parent.

Lol. From my phone

Have any of you encountered this phenomenon big baby in the basket? Family takes the obese 6 to 7 year old gets two baskets one for the kid one for the groceries. Mom pushes one dad the other the kid is fat and needs the exorcise. The parents make sure the carts make it impossible for others to pass. The kid is always grabbing stuff as he passes where as parents takes it away and places on shelf not where it was found. Whats even worse is the basket the looks like a truck with seats for kids. Those things are impossible to navigate isles.

Or she could’ve let dad do it

Oh I dont know why I assumed Dad wasnt there.

If our kids ever got like that, we took them outside. We told them this was their last chance. If they did it again, we just left. We had VERY specific and stringent expectations when our kids were inside of restaurants, stores, theatres, etc. They had to be on their best behavior. Generally speaking, we rarely, if ever, had any issues. If you set proper expectations with your kids and enforce the rules, amazingly enough, they will get followed.

IMO, when shit like this happens, it’s usually just a case of shoddy, lazy parenting.

Ok Idiot. Just to be clear, I’ve probably eaten breakfast out three or four times on the past year. I almost always cook at home. That’s why this was such a bummer.

Thank you, bravo! That’s what we did. We told them there is a way to act at restaurants. If they wanted to go, then they knew how to act. Also, I get that little whooping cough boy can’t help that he’s sick. What dumbass parent takes that kid to a restaurant though?

suck it up

Between all the idiot parents and idiot pet owners who don't respect the fact that other people might not want to listen to your crying kid or barking dogs, it's a small miracle when you can leave your house (even if it's just to sit outside next to your house) and have some goddamned peace and quiet.

I do this and my wife hates it.

This. The kids acting up and being loud in public doesn't irritate me nearly as much as watching parents sitting there not do anything about it. My boys are teenagers now, but when they were little they knew how they were supposed to act before we left the house and rarely had a problem. If there was one we'd take them outside. I recall getting compliments from random strangers on our boys and I try and do that now when I recognize good parenting because it meant a lot to me at the time.

The first couple of years that I was married my Wife would start talking about having kids so I would take her to the local family restaurant with all the crying kids. She would look around in horror and tell me that she wanted to put having kids for a while. It was hard to keep from laughing.

Why's that?

Didn’t one of the clay day threads cover the big biscuit

Seems like we were warned that the big biscuit was not great LMAO

100% with OP.

I understand kids are gonna cry, scream, act up. I become furious when the "parent" does absolutely nothing, or does the opposite and encourages, their bad behavior in public. I understand that kids can be shitheads and even if you are trying to correct their behavior it can sometimes amplify their screaming and tantrums... but at least they are doing something about it as opposed to allowing their crotchfruit shit on my day.

Does she cry and throw a tantrum?

You can definitely tell who has kids and who doesn't by reading this thread. :D

I'm 52 and never had kids. My tolerance level for them acting up in public is about zero. Especially if their ****ing parents just sit there and do nothing while their rotten spawn just keep ranting and raving. I remember what my parents did if I started acting up in public - I got my ass beat. Hell, one time I was running around goofing off in the grocery store and some lady I didn't even know swatted my ass, hard, then grabbed me and took me to my mother and told her what I did. Mom was horrified - not because some stranger had hit her kid, but rather because I had embarrassed her. She thanked the lady and apologized to her, then beat my ass again on the spot, and also after we got home - so I basically got three beatings for one bad incident. I can't even remember what I did, but I'm damn sure I never did it again.

Cook your own breakfast at home, problem solved. I do it every morning, no waiting, no noise and I know exactly what I am eating.

I never know what to tip in that situation.

A place called Big Bisqit has crying kids? Be glad there aren’t farm animals giving birth.
Kids cry. You did when you were one. Lighten up.

Tooge is complaining about a three year old. It’s a little harder to reason with a three year old than it is a 5 year old or 7 year old. If you pull a three year old out of the restaurant and explain to him/her that their behavior will not be tolerated they probably aren’t going to fully understand. They will act better for awhile when you go back in, but as soon as something else grabs their attention they will probably forget and act up again.

Frazod, while I understand your sentiment being raised by a strict disciplinarian myself, I would be ****ing furious if a total stranger spanked my kid.

Well, this would have happened around 1970. It was clearly a different time.

These days the story would have gone viral... the stranger would have been painted as a terrorist, with mom describing "a truly terrifying situation"... the country would split into #TeamMom and #TeamStranger and it's the only thing you'd hear about until the next shiny story came along.

Damn, Krusty... You're almost as old as Milkdud

I always enjoy a breakfast out with a little child abuse at the next table. Doing something about it involve a little smacking around? As lonewolf said not much doing about it with a 1 to 3 yo they wont understand. Its a pretty big expense to walk out with a family of 5 to 7. You take your kids so the learn to eat out and cross your fingers they dont erupt into monsters.

I have seen so many times at Mass parents taking a young child with a tantrum out in the lobby only to bring back and it start right back up. Our Church has 2 quiet rooms with windows and the sermon piped in through speakers usually unused. I just wonder what this do something is? I think every parent would like to have that magic.

Yep. It sucks, but beats the alternative. :D

LMAO

Sad but true.

She hates having to put life on hold because our daughter wants to act like an asshole. I get it.

She can sometimes.

I've been out with my sister and ~3 year old niece when my niece was in a particularly bad mood.... my sister would take her outside or to the restroom, sometimes multiple times before my niece would quit making a scene.

In other words, she'd do what parents should, and at least make some kind of effort, instead of thinking it was cute, as described in the OP. And if your kids are consistently creating scenes in a situation like that, get it to go or figure out something... you know, be responsible for your own kids.

The old my kids were always angels but others no so much.

I have been lucky... I can snap my fingers or use "the Stare" those always do the trick. If they fail we leave from wherever we are, go straight home and whoop ass

Big Biscuit? LMAO

When you go to second-rate establishments, expect second-rate experience.

What did you have? Was it good?

Little kids always suck if they aren't yours.. at least in public situations.

Dogs in public places are out of control.

LMAO

You know what’s worse than loud kids?

Crotchety, old men eating alone at restaurants. Really pretty disturbing.

Would your sister have left the table to discipline a child and leave 4 other children under the age of 7 at the table alone?

This thread is going well

If you're by yourself with 5 kids, you hit the drive-thru. No one anywhere wants anything to do with that mess.

But yeah, bars, breweries, and ethnic places Tristan and Dakota feel is too unsafe for their kids and labradoodle is a safe choice for kid-free meals. High-end just means bigger strollers to have to navigate through here.

It's funny how people are telling tooge to stay home and make breakfast and how he had other choices, yet a parent doesn't need to think twice about whether they can control their litter of kids so they don't disrupt an entire restaurant.

I doubt my sister would put herself in that situation... she'd keep the craziness at home or get takeout... and if for some reason she was forced into taking a bunch of kids to a restaurant alone, she'd probably do what she could instead of ignoring it and thinking it was cute.

Ultimately restaurants are a public place and the general public sucks. Suck it up or stay home.

A couple or three Bloody Marys would have fixed tooge’s problem.

We were blessed with four kids who behaved well in their young age. One time when we ate at McDonald, the town police chief sitting next to our table commented how well our kids behaved.

My wife always carried some crayons and coloring books in her purse. She provided the kids in drawing while we waited for the meals. Some restaurants provided those stuff as well.

Ultimately, kids who get rowdy at public places often get rowdy at home. It is up to the parent to teach the kids how to behave.

:D