"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> 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.
We went out all the time but were never allowed to be noisy or run around.
>
>> 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.
I saw that.
We went out to eat at a Mexican place the other day. Not fancy. Big party
sitting near us and they let the little boy just run around and scream.
Drove me nuts!