We don’t take the kids out to dinner a lot because, well, they are
typical little kids and while they behave pretty well, they make noise
and wiggle and try to stare at people over the backs of booths and so
on. We try to reinforce proper behavior, but repeating "Sit down. Now.
Don’t lie down on the booth. Indoor voices please," 900 times in an
hourlong restaurant visit makes it not very much fun for my husband and
I either. And we've all gotten The Look when we walk into a restaurant
with small children, from servers or other patrons, that says "oh no,
not a little kid" before they have so much as a chance to spill
something.
Worse, we sometimes feel like the only parents who do enforce restaurant manners. My huge pet peeve is
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