No one is forcing you to socialize with my kid, what you really mean to say is you don't want to hear or see them. And we're really only talking about breweries that are specifically catering to families, specifically on Friday evenings or during the day on the weekends, that have become popular as we've gotten older and had kids in the 2010s. I'm not taking my kid to a bar, you're more than welcome to go to these places that let adults drink and don't let kids in because they don't serve food usually.
***I will not be engaging the guy whose defending his child’s behavior when said child, and I quote, “doesn’t listen to me”***
This discourse really boils down to the same issue. People who can’t/don’t manage their kids/dogs are the cause here. I love kids and dogs both. If my kids were acting like assholes when they were younger you pack them up and leave. Some times they have melt downs, sometimes they are great. My dogs are not well behaved in public so they are no longer public dogs, that ship sailed 8-9 years ago. They stay home and sleep until we get back.
like others have said, I’m not gonna go let my kids bother random people, but they are allowed to be in public in the right settings which is usually a brewery, much more so than a sit down restaurant
Right, I think this discussion more sits on restaurant behavior and usually because really little kids are taken to those. It's less kids running around and instead being too loud or crying/screaming because they're forced to sit. I think parents sometimes overextend their stay and in my experience usually those are trashy people, I'm very well aware of trying to not let my daughter have a meltdown without us getting up and leaving early if we have to.
Also, your charming little interaction with my 5 year old daughter is way more likely to land you some sexual intercourse with your date later than anything you had planned so i think some thanks are actually in order here
Yea I loathe children sometimes, but the only time they have genuinely been an inconvenience to me is on long flights where I want to get some sleep. And even then it’s generally just the 0-4ish year olds who wont stop crying
as I parent I can promise you one thing - if my kids are not behaving in a public space I can guarantee you it's ruining my time much more than it is anyone else. that shit drives me insane.
This! I don't think people without kids realize how much it stresses out parents when their kid starts misbehaving. They aren't pets, they have minds of their own and I spend damn near every waking hour worrying about my daughter's development and behavior.
Kids running around a restaurant is less trashy than the parents at restaurants that use a tablet to babysit their kids.
Showing a potential partner that you have parental instincts and are good with kids isn’t creepy at all. Not sure what you’re thinking of.
Parents often do this because of people who overreact the second they hear a kid crying or being loud in my experience.
I can only speak for myself but my daughter constantly wants to dictate what we do all the time so if we want to stay longer than a half hour at a restaurant then we'll give her 15 minutes or so on the tablet after we're done eating. This happens maybe two or three times a month.
how many different places literally have a tablet on every table to keep young children distracted? A shit load
"Excuse me, waiter......can you get this fuckin tablet outta here please, I only enjoy meals when my 2.5 year old is bouncin around and doin some thangs"
It seems that a lot of people wish that their favorite brew pub wasn’t kid friendly even though it is. Does the owner welcome kids? Are there games for the kids like enormous jenga? Did you think that the enormous jenga was for you and that’s why you’re mad at the kids?
like he said, the tablet will babysit your kids, but it's not going to teach them how to act in a restaurant. you'll have to do it eventually and in my opinion you're only putting it off and making it worse.
Well you actual parents have been proving for sometime now you have no clue what the fuck yall hoes are doing
We do our best to avoid tablets at restaurants. Coloring books and card games are what we would prefer. But if shit hits the fan and it's the only thing that will calm them down and begin acting like a human again, we will do it - just for the sake of everyone else at the restaurant. Non-parents want kids to be quiet and behave in public but will also judge the hell out of people for using means (tablets) to keep their kids quiet. It's quite the catch 22.
That's totally fine, these places already exist. Going to SweetFarts brewing way out in the suburbs that has a giant play area at 2pm on a Saturday isn't the place to go to avoid kids.