On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:09:55 -0800, Dan Abel > wrote:

>In article
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> Elaine Parrish > wrote:
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>> Restaurants don't do themselves any favors by tolerating disruptive kids.
>> It is better to lose one disruptive family than to lose a number of quiet
>> customers that decide to go elsewhere.
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>Of course, the corollary is that it is better to lose a single person
>who has no tolerance for normal kid behavior rather than a bunch of
>families.

Haven't seen anyone in this thread or the previous one talking about
'normal kid behavior'.

>>The little boy was kicking
>> the underside of the table and banging his flatware on the table. It
>> started out quietly enough and his mother said, "if you do that again,
>> I'm gonna slap you." Of course, he did it again, and she said it
>> again...and again, and again, and again. Every time she threatened him,
>> she got louder and every time he did it again, he got louder.
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>This is so bad, but happens all too often.

Yup. It does. Far too many parents threaten discipline but then
don't deliver. This teaches the kid a fine lesson: "I don't have to
do as I'm told."

--
-denny-
"Do your thoughts call ahead or do they just arrive at your mouth unannounced?"

"It's come as you are, baby."

-over the hedge