Comments on: Businesses Ban Bratty Kids

Restaurants and Hotels Are Saying No To Misbehaving Children

[ecuadoriana]

cornflower3 said that there will probably be some whiney bratty parent who will sue because they are asked to leave. Of course there will be! THAT is the same reason that whiney bratty kids threaten the parents with a call to social services if the parent tries to discipline! The parents who threaten to sue everyone for everything, rather than taking responsibility, only teach their children to shirk personal accountability! Kids are fat- parent sues Mcdonalds. Why should a child behave in public- mommy & daddy can just sue the restaurant! How easy!

Every minute of every day a human makes a cognitve decision based on experience- basic "cause & effect". It is what supposedly seperates us from the "lower animals". So why have parents allowed themselves to stop thinking? Why do they just float along like they have no spine?

Parents- do your job & stop expecting the world to cater to you & your kids!

[cladanye-2009]

The reason that parents just let their kids be unruly is because he world has become so politically correct. If you attempt to discipline your children in public, you are commiting child abuse. The parent has become unable to do any type of diiscipline in public,let alone at home. I speak for being the mother of an 8 yr old and a 12 yr old, they know the "laws" of child abuse and tell me all the time "you can't touch me or I'll call the police on you" How are we supposed to discipline our children these days when the schools preach the signs of child abuse and the children hold it against you? The laws have become the reason we have no control. If you look at all the complaints, it is normally the people withouy kids who complain, walk a mile in our shoes with these laws before you complain again.

[tpeks40]

I agree that kids need to have more respect in adult situations. I believe the lack of respect is in direct correlation to the limits of how we can disipline our children. We cannot keep letting the under 17 crowd run the roost with threats of how they are going to call the police on their parents every time an issue of disipline arises. I believe that there is a distinct difference between disiplining your children and child abuse, and while I know that child abuse is abhorrent, there is still a time and a place for a well timed slap. That shouldn't become an issue with the overloaded Child Protective services, but it commonly is. Until we let parents disipline their broods, we'll continue to see bad behaviors in children.

[oleander8]

These are called "day-care" kids - you can spot them a mile away. People who make the decision to have children need to bite-the-bullet and make some sacrifices so that one parent can be the major care-giver during a childs early years - instead of turning this responsibility over to an ever-changing parade low-paid day-care workers who have no emotional investment in the children.

[shen4-2009]

No wonder your Bratty Bunch segment hits home with millions of viewers...as a preschool teacher for 27 years, I can tell you that each year I discipline more and teach less. I see parents giving their children more and more material objects, and spending less time teaching life's true values. Kindness and compassion are being replaced with toys and computer games, the more then better. Being thankful (a circletime discussion in my class this week) has taken on a new meaning these days-Barbies and Godzilla are the top answers. If control, discipline can begin at home, then we teachers can do a heck of a lot more with teaching what really needs to be taught.

[olebd]

In addition....

It's like those who leave their dogs outside to bark constantly. Parents should take the responsibility and show common courtesy to others by stepping outside to defuse the situation or leave if that doesn't work.

I also can't stand the parents who bring their sick kids to school or church or wherever.

[olebd]

Your not going to be able to control all the children all of the time. Especially between 2-6 years old.

We have quite an active son who, like his mom, talks quite a bit and has a voice that carries pretty far. What worked for us was we we went to the noisy restaurants and blended in and/or brought along the Game Boy or some other table game.

Then again, we also came up with a team of good babysitters who we could rely on and NEVER took him shopping with us. Parents need to be sure to get in some alone time out and about.

I think now, after years of correcting and setting boundaries and setting examples, we have a pretty well adjusted 9 year old who we can take along anywhere.

[pammied]

When it comes to going to a public place and you see that your child is being annoying. The parent should take the responsibility and take the child out. The parent should leave with the child and maybe, just maybe that child will finally realize that it is not going to be tolerated.

[mommamac1]

I can understand people not wanting to share their space with "bratty kids", but to leave an establishment just because a child walks in is absurd!!! As a mother of three, now 14, 9 and 8 I know that not all children are obnoxious in public situations. Would you leave because an African-American, Hispanic, Middle-Easterner, the tattoo man/woman, or any other person not exactly like you walked through the door? Of course, not! Children should be extended the same courtesy as anyone else. If they become unruly then you have a right to be upset, but not simply because they are children!

[gizmotique]

I have raised three children, and they were brats in public when they were little. I know other people hated to see us coming, and I don't blame them. In spite of my experiences, I literally despise being in a public place with anybody else's kids. If they come in a restaurant or store I am in, I leave immediately. As for the man who posted a sign about "inside voices".....every restaurant should post one of those. Some adults need to read it as much as kids do. There is always at least one table that is broadcasting their voices to the whole restaurant, and it is soooooo irritating.