Thursday Blogwrap
Kent Avenue Building. Photo by technoparty. Days of Some Carroll Gardens “Wide Streets” May End [GL] Burg’s Hipster Parking Lot & Purple Truck Doomed? [Curbed] Mom of Toddler Laments New Union Hall Rule [OTBKB] On Your Marks! Get Set! Idiotarod! [Gothamist] Ticket Quota Met, Case Dismissed [Bed Stuy Blog] The Bakery is Open! [CH Blog]
Kent Avenue Building. Photo by technoparty.
Days of Some Carroll Gardens “Wide Streets” May End [GL]
Burg’s Hipster Parking Lot & Purple Truck Doomed? [Curbed]
Mom of Toddler Laments New Union Hall Rule [OTBKB]
On Your Marks! Get Set! Idiotarod! [Gothamist]
Ticket Quota Met, Case Dismissed [Bed Stuy Blog]
The Bakery is Open! [CH Blog]
There are so many places to take kids during the day in Park Slope. Places that welcome them. Removing Union Hall as an option doesn’t mean there’s no place for them to go anymore, please. Union Hall only opened what, a year ago. Wherever you went before that just go there again with the tots during the day.
I don’t think it’s bad parenting to bring a child to a bar; my parents’ generation did it. Being around adults in an adult setting is important for socialization and being able to navigate the adult world later on. These lessons start early. Or they’re supposed to start early. The problem with Park Slope parents is they bring kids into an adult setting and instead of training and teaching their kids how to behave in an adult setting, they turn the venue into a romper room kiddy play place. Which does nothing to teach their kids how to function as adults. I vividly remember as a child knowing to shut up and not run around screaming, when we went to restaurants. I was calm enough to attend the theater as early as age 4. You NEVER see that these days. Kids are total spazzes. My parents are always shocked at kids behavior now, and in retrospect even say my loony brothers are much better behaved than kids today. And that says a lot! If you knew my brothers as kids.
Yea take your kids to a bar and drink in the afternoon FUCKING TRAILER TRASH LIVES IN PARK SLOPE. So much for sophisticated New York parents. LOSER.
I took my 6 year old kid to Mastadon last nite, and although he broke his arm, and got a bloody lip, we shook it off at the Alibi around the corner after…but seriously, the bottom line , drinking alcohol with your kid in tow, in front of other people is a little tacky (no matter how little you drink or how well you hold your liquor) IT JUST LOOKS BAD..
Anyone who takes their children to a bar is a bad parent. How about calling ACS on them? Plenty of people do it for poor parents, so why not PS yuppies?
You Americans are so puritanical. So weird.
the park slope mind-set is unreal. what a bunch of entitles whiney cry-babies. maybe park slope should just be walled off ala escape from new york and all the babies can be imprisoned there with their cry-baby parents. then we won’t have to see any of that riff-raff in the proper world.
Isn’t there a Chuck E Cheese’s on Flatbush? That would be more appropriate.
“As for Union Hall we celebrated our son’s first birthday there. Yes, it was more of a party for my husband and I celebrating our surviving our first year of parenthood, but it was wonderful to have a place to sit and have friends drop by, see us, and have a drink and some comestibles. ”
See, it’s all about THEM. Why should ANY bar patron have to deal with toddlers at a freaking bar, off-hours or not? It’s insane.
Bringing your kid to a bar for their birthday? Geez, your a real good parent.