Kids and Restaurants: A Healthy Mix?
It’s Friday and with lots of family dining likely to take place over the next 48 hours this photo from a Child Grows in Brooklyn today seemed timely. Personally, we think young kids should be welcome in restaurants before 8 or so and only if the parents can keep their kids under control. A table…
It’s Friday and with lots of family dining likely to take place over the next 48 hours this photo from a Child Grows in Brooklyn today seemed timely. Personally, we think young kids should be welcome in restaurants before 8 or so and only if the parents can keep their kids under control. A table full of well-behaved children at an appropriate hour can enhance the atmosphere of a restaurant; badly-behaved kids running amok while self-absorbed parents blithely down their drinks doesn’t. Like most issues (ahem, bicycling) common sense and courtesy carry the day.
I kinda feel like a restaurant that is ok with putting up a sign like this, is the kind of restaurant where I wouldnt feel so worried about my kid acting out a bit.
If parents used common sense this would never even be an issue. Take your kids out to dinner at their dinner time, not yours. I take mine out at 5.30 and behavior is never an issue, restaurant are filled with other kids, kids are hungry and not tired yet. The difference between how my kids behave at 5.30 and 7.30 is so great yet I see people trying to dine later all the time and then they wonder why their kids are whining and acting out. A great thing about Brooklyn is you can eat at a good restaurant with your kids (no need to suffer a family friendly chain) but a few bad diners give the rest of us such a bad name.