Yesterday, I was at the eye doctor and there were two little boys, about 4 and 8, who walked round and round behind the techs, jumping and waving at the fish in the aquarium. Later, I went to Luby's and there were two little boys, about the same age. who yelled, talked back to their parents, and generally were awful. Even after they sat down the younger child did not sit down. He yelled so that he could be heard all over the restaurant.

Parents, I appreciate that you have to get out and take your children sometimes, but you surely don't have to take them to eat if you know in advance that they are going to act up. If they don't act well at home they are not going to act well out. So ends the rant. 

Or maybe you were having a bad day...??? 

Children have to be taught how to behave in a restaurant thus needing to be in a restaurant. I to find it rather annoying when a child is acting out terribly and the parent seems to turn a blind eye. I just wish they knew when to say enough is enough box up the food and finish at home when the kids are to rowdy. I can't help but to still be sympathetic though. 

Fiona, You are right. This is why more and more restaurants are changing to an adults only policy. 

This drives me nuts. I have a wild child who has her issues with behavior -- and, I have on more than one occasion escorted her out of a restaurant or to the restroom for a very stern conversation about her behavior. Kids will act up, but when parents don't respond, that drives me nuts.

And nothing annoys me more than actually getting a night out without the kids and going to a nice restaurant only to hear someone else's obnoxious children yelling and running around.

I actually really love the policies of some restaurants barring kids. 

And nothing annoys me more than actually getting a night out without the kids and going to a nice restaurant only to hear someone else's obnoxious children yelling and running around.

You took the words right out of my mouth. My DD is 9 and has never for as long as I could remember acted a fool in public.

When I first met my DH and we would take DD with us to dinner she was 3 or 4 and he would get upset because she would get up from one side of the table and move to the other then back to the other. Not yelling or annoying anyone but she wanted to be by both of us so she would go back and forth.

I had to point out to him that at least she was eating her food, not yelling and throwing a temper tantrum or making a scene and what she was doing was ok.

He fully started believing me after seeing some crazy kids in restaurants and the one and only time we ate at Skeeters. 

This is why more and more restaurants are changing to an adults only policy.

Please provide your list of adult-only restaurants... 

Yes please do... 

Definitely avoid Texas Roadhouse on Monday nights...(kids eat free night)

We have a 2-year old and if we're eating out and he starts to lose it....we're yelling "check, please!" 

There are a couple nice restaurants in the Heights that don't allow children. 

I completely agree and I put the blame fully on parents who don't want to be bothered.

The other evening I was leaving CVS the back way behind the stores. When I approached the area near 3Bs there were several young boys around 8 or 9 playing in the area behind the restaurant.

They were pulling things out of the dumpster, doing wheelies with a neglected shopping cart and darting in and out of the traffic path. All of it very dangerous and this was at dusk to make it worse.

I rolled down my window and told them what they were doing wasn't safe and mentioned I was sure that their parents would want them home by now since it was getting dark. They replied that their parents were inside 3Bs "having fun" and their parents had told them to play outside.

I am sure they sent them outside because the kids were getting bored and restless and yet the parents were not ready to leave their own "fun".

Sorry people...being a parent means your children come first. Allowing them to run around just so they are out of your hair is going to bite you in the azz one day. Step up and take control. It is pathetic how self absorbed some people are. 

Wow that's just nuts. And if they got hit by a car or injured some other way, the parents would want to sue God only knows who and not accept blame. 

We were in Kohl's on Friday and my DD was doing her little pouting because she couldn't get $65 sneakers. She's 9 I'm 41 and I don't have sneakers that cost that much.

After about 5 minutes I told her out loud if she didn't cut the crap I was going to whoop her azz right there in the store in front of everyone.

Some lady looked at me like I was completely crazy.

She wasn't bothering anyone else except me but I am not one of those moms that is going to take her in the bathroom to give her a pop for misbehaving. I think I have only ever spanked her once but I threatened that I will do it in public and embarrass her and it stops her right in her tracks. 

Whoop her azz sounds so bad - I was going to spank her and give her something to pout and cry about. That's better..lol 

If my kids are having a bad day we don't take them out. I have had to find corners for my kids to sit in for a time out because of bad behavior (in a store). 

People who have kids like this don't realize that no one wants to be around them. I can't count the times I've heard someone say they'd love to invite a certain family over for a party, but wouldn't because of their kids. 

When son was between ages of about 2 and 4 was only mcds (playground) or sitter. 

There are a lot of misbehaving children, but I have seem some really well behaved children too.
I will stop and complement them and their parents because it is becoming so rare. Keep up the good work parents. 

Sometimes the parents are worse! Talking at full volume about how smart and how cute their kids are. Just encountered this at the dentist's office yesterday. So loud! Whatever happened to whispering? No one wants to hear all that. 

Nothing ruins a nice dinner out more than unruly kids. Thats why 3B's is off our list now. DW and I eat out almost every night. The more kid friendly it is, the lower the liklihood that we want to go there. Public decorum has declined signficantly. I guess younger parents think everything their kid does is cute, unique and funny. Its not. 

Somehow my kids always knew better than to act up when we were eating out. I never once needed to leave. Even when they were very very little. They each always had their little bag of activities. It kept them very busy until it was time to eat. Also, when we were eating at home we always enforced good table manors. We always sat at the table to eat as a family. No roaming around like little animals, coming around for a bit of food now and then.

It is very rude of people to let their kids ruin other peoples night out. 

I guess younger parents think everything their kid does is cute, unique and funny. Its not.?


That's exactly right! When my son would start to get fidgity or loud I would tell him that even if I thought what he did was cute, other may not feel that way because they aren't your mother! When he was little he would sometimes get frustrated at seeing so many other little children running around acting like heathens, when he could not, now he has thanked me (on numerous occaisions), for teaching to behave better than that!

We also make it a habit to talk low enough so that the whole restaurant doesn't hear our dinner conversation. No long loud cell phone convos either! All of that is just rude! 

We also make it a habit to talk low enough so that the whole restaurant doesn't hear our dinner conversation. No long loud cell phone convos either! All of that is just rude!?

Yes, even adults are bad when eating out. They talk so loud that everyone in the place can hear them. They also talk about personal issues that no one else needs to hear. One day I'm going to turn around and join in their conversation because I feel invited. 

One day I'm going to turn around and join in their conversation because I feel invited.?


Right? They must want your input or they would speak at a more personal and intimate volume. 

No long loud cell phone convos either!

That just drives me herpentile. Here I am, eating DW in a nice quiet place and there's someone yacking it up on the phone loud enough for me to hear the conversation subject. Oftern you don;t want to hear it while eating. 

Here I am, eating DW in a nice quiet place

Bob, you may want to edit that statement.
Just saying ... 

I see that now and it won't let me. Should read "...eating [with] dw...."

I'm not a cannible. 

I know ... I know, but with the hate and discontent going on today in the postings, I thought it would good to advise you to be prepared for all kinds of weird comments. 

Oftern you don;t want to hear it while eating.?


Right? Who wants to know all about someone else Aunt Marthas gallbladder surgery or how she is constipated from antibiotics or whatever? Especially while eating. 

Right? Who wants to know all about someone else Aunt Marthas gallbladder surgery or how she is constipated from antibiotics or whatever? Especially while eating.

Right, I've heard much worse than that. I will take hearing about Aunt Marthas gall bladder anytime over hearing about a sexual encounter gone wrong. 

What gets me is when they talk about this kind of stuff with kids/teens at the next table. Even some teens know what they are talking about but still do not need to hear such vivid details. For the ones that do not know they do not need to learn it. 

This thread is hilarious. 

Nothing ruins a nice dinner out more than unruly kids. Thats why 3B's is off our list now.

We eat out often and we want a place where we can talk and relax without having kids running around and the parents being oblivious to it all. We have also taken 3B's off our list. 

We have also taken 3B's off our list.


Ahhhh Good ol' 3B's! Haven't been back since basketball season ended. Agree. No need to try an enjoy yourselves around unruly kids AND their uncaring, clueless parents. Kids running in the 3 B's parking lot is an accident waiting to happen. I wrote to them an warned them. I see things haven't changed. 

Kingwood does need more adult only nice places to dine. 

It pisses me off when parents allow their kids to act up. My daughter is adhd but we never allowed her to act up. She knows to sit and keep quiet when we are in restaurants or any other place that is are supposed to be quiet 

The problem is, there's a generation of parents without much education in public decorum and respect for others around them. They seem to believe tberes nothing more important than their kid. 

I'm sure I was a handful as a kid - but I also remember that if I pulled some crap in public I was walked outside. Be it church, a restaurant, movies, it didn't matter. I was escorted outside and quickly.