Comments on: Civilizing our young

by: Lisa

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:02:29 +0000

My son is sure he is going to die from the humiliation of being the only kid in 5th grade without a cell phone…we told him when he can afford to pay for one, he can get one…

by: Ed T.

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:29:47 +0000

:shudder::

My sentiments exactly.

~EdT.

by: marc

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:09:47 +0000

I nearly wept with joy when I read about the positive responses the restaurant received! There’s hope for America yet.

by: Shaun

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:59:03 +0000

A-MEN!

The closest that my children ever got to boot camp was being taken to restaurants at a relatively early age.

To their credit, there was very little acting out or otherwise misbehaving, and there was a bonus, as well: They were able to taste and learned to enjoy a fairly eclectic range of ethnic foods, which played back nicely on their parents’ view that they had to learn to like what was served at mealtime at home. No separate dishes for the kids.

by: John

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:44:09 +0000

Bravo to the restaurant owner.

During the many weeks I was in France last year, the children there were uniformly well behaved in public. People have told me that French children are taught how to behave in public from a young age, and it shows. While I understand that the best children have bad days (and I’ve seen it firsthand with my nephew), there are ways for parents to respond - like taking the child outside to calm down.

There’s no exuse for wrecking everybody else’s dining experience by allowing your loinfruit to misbehave in a public place.

by: CLG

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:35:51 +0000

I agree with that restaurant owner. If anyone is carrying trays of food or hot drinks through any area of any restaurant, children are to be seated. I’ve warned my errant children repeatedly that a heavy tray of food could kill them, or worse. It’s one thing for kids to play among the video games at Skeeters, and quite another to dodge a waiter carrying a heavy tray of hot plates at Sylvia’s. Next step: Brunch at Brennan’s.

by: Polimom

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:26:20 +0000

I was scared off by the use of the word “relatively”.

::shudder::

by: Ed T.

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:22:33 +0000

I think you missed the best part of that article, in which the mother of one of the little ~~heathens~~ children replied:

“I was so shocked,” Walsh said, adding that she thought the children had been relatively well-behaved that afternoon.

As the commercial says… priceless.

~EdT.