Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> "sf" > wrote in message
>> Oh, puleeze - it's a hotel.
>>
>> I hope those parents were just as distressed by the baby crying and
>> have learned their lesson.
>
> That gave the parent even less an excuse. The parents should have
> returned to the room with child. Kids cry. Parents are obligated to
> fix the problem or remove the child from a place that annoys others.
> Simple manners and consideration. This was not a simple shriek, it
> was constant crying.

No way to know if the parents had a room at the Inn or if they were simply
there for dinner. I agree they should have left, but I also have found a
lot of parents are so used to tantrums and screaming fits from their kids
they simply tune them out. I suppose the premise is not to give in to their
fits so as not to validate whatever it is the child is screaming about.
I've run into the same thing on airplanes where they can't just take the kid
outside. Seriously, I've been on a plane where a toddler was screaming and
the parents just kept chatting with the couple across the aisle and ignored
the child. The fact that they were across and back about 5 aisles didn't
matter; I had a major headache by the time the plane landed. And I couldn't
go anywhere either! I was tempted to open the emergency exit and jump.

Jill