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Nancy Young[_8_]

On 7/27/2015 7:00 AM, wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 23:40:09 -0500, MaryL
> > wrote:

>> Afterward, my father was very proud and told us that someone had stopped
>> by their booth to tell them "what nice children they had." I did not
>> understand it at the time because all we did was eat and talk. I was 12
>> years old at the time and my brother and sister were younger. Years
>> later, I understood why those people thought we were being so nice...the
>> fact that we were only eating and talking and enjoying ourselves was
>> exactly what they appreciated. I think people today would not find it
>> unpleasant to have children seated in a restaurant if parents would only
>> teach them to act as we did that day--something that was perfectly
>> natural to us.

We didn't go out to restaurants very often, but the idea that we'd
run around raising a ruckus is laughable. I don't remember being
taught restaurant manners, but my brothers and I knew we'd better
behave.

> I agree, sometimes it means you have to leave and go home when you
> didn't wish to, but I found I only had to do something like that once
> with each child and they got the message. Since at heart they loved
> being out to eat, it affected a cure - young parents today do not seem
> to get the message of the old saw about 'this hurts me more than you'
> with regard to discipline and good manners.

In the paper yesterday, they had a bunch of people commenting about
that recent incident where a diner owner got fed up with a noisy kid and
yelled at him/her to shut up. I was kind of surprised that most
people sided with the restaurant owner, even the ones who disagreed
did say they would have taken the child out before it got to that point.

nancy