Control Your Kids

"...they are crying. Some are running under the tables."-Chavez tells KHOU

     I was watching the morning news this morning and my attention was stuck on a story pertaining to families and their restaurant going experience. 

     I quickly pulled up google to find the closest story to the one I saw and pulled up this snippet: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/la-fisheria-restaurant-bans-kids_n_3720071.html

 In it, it basically states that there is a restaurant that is now banning kids due to the parents lack of...um parenting? 

     This is nothing new. There are at least three other restaurants that came up on my google news feed stating that "xyz" restaurant has banned kids in order to better serve other paying customers who don't want to be slightly inconvenienced during their meals.

     All of a sudden I find myself proposing the question, Am I crazy to agree? I mean seriously parents! What has happened to the "parenting" in society today? First of all, I realize that I have not yet given birth but I am a mom and I have to ask parents an important question here. When is your child's bedtime? Why are you out at 7pm or later with your child eating dinner? My bedtime was at 7 o'clock.

     Someone please take a guess at what happened to me if I so much as threw a crayon on the floor while out-to-eat. My parents beat my tushy that's what happened. They raised me to have manners and some self respect. If I couldn't behave at dinner then we didn't go. I understand people are hungry and have the right to be served but please parents, stop taking your noisy ill-behaved child to a place where I have the right to enjoy my meal. 

     I am certainly not disagreeing with the restaurants who want to join the "list" of others banning kids. In fact, I am hoping more chain restaurants will follow suit. Parents need to start stepping up and teaching their child how to behave in public. If they can't behave then don't take them out or discipline their butts! Tough love goes a long way. My parents used it on me and I came up fine. I know for sure my daughter is going to get it as she is being raised. Your child is not your friend...you are the parent! Take control.

Thoughts?

-Mrs. Nystrom