Monday, September 28, 2009

Parenting-A lost art

We don't go out much. It was one of those things we gave up when we became a single income family. We go to a sit down restaurant maybe once every couple of months. It's a treat. Our kids know it's a treat. Mark and Anna behave really well in restaurants. When our kids were smaller and didn't understand how to behave we more than once had to asked for to go boxes as soon as our meal arrived. We didn't want to ruin any other diner's meal with our children's bad behavior.
Yesterday we got one of those very rare meals away from home. We sat down and almost immediately a kid started crying on the other side of the restaurant. That child kept it up the entire meal. And it wasn't just little crying either. We are talking screaming at the top of his lungs. Luckily, we were sitting pretty far away. I can't imagine sitting right next to that.
I am a parent. I know kids cry. I would never advocate hitting a stranger's child. But I could totally get on board with hitting a stranger who refuses to parent their child in public.


Because of this post, these two will no doubt be a horror show next time we go out.

3 comments:

2nd CM said...

Horror show! .... Impossible .... just look at those two precious kids!

Ellyn said...

2nd CM-You would be surprised. We don't call them the terrible twosome for nothing.

Cynthia said...

I'm telling you...it takes guts to walk into a restaurant with two toddlers:O Cute pic:)