Is this Inappropriate? (son, 7 years old, grandmother, learn)
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Do you all think it's appropriate or inappropriate to let your toddler children go to other tables at a restaurant and start chatting it up with strangers while they wait for their check (after they finished their meal)? Even if the toddlers are very charming and adorable?
not everyone will think your toddler is charming and adorable. I know I wouldn't.
no, the toddler doesn't get a "hall pass" simply because "you" think he /she is charming and adorable.
I absolutely would not want a strange toddler come to my table and talk to me and my dinner party. I would not find it proper or acceptable.
The last thing I'd want to entertain while having dinner out is to be subject to someones toddler, even if the toddler was "charming and adorable" also, what would constitute "charming and adorable" in your book?
Most likely I'd find it annoying and annoying, so forget the charming and adorable.
Completely inappropriate. Nobody thinks your toddler is as cute or charming as you do. And nobody wants to be bothered when they're eating. Please keep your children at your own table unless you're at a child's play area in a fast food restaurant. In that situation, it's fine for them to wander around and even stop to say hi at other tables. But in any other type of restaurant, including the eat-in part of a fast food place? No. No. NO.
Do you all think it's appropriate or inappropriate to let your toddler children go to other tables at a restaurant and start chatting it up with strangers while they wait for their check (after they finished their meal)? Even if the toddlers are very charming and adorable?
Inappropriate and very risky for the child in today's world unfortunately.
Absolutely not, and for multiple reasons. This really should not even be being asked as it flies in the face of common sense. Safety concerns are one. Secondly, not everyone is there to socialize and not everyone will think having a young child of a stranger coming up to them is cute.
I actually can recall something much like that happening many years ago when my mother and I were out getting lunch across the street from the the hospital. We were having a very low key, serious discussion about whether or not to continue treatments for my father who was by then nearing death's door.
A young tot who'd been wandering about the restaurant came up to our booth a few times...while he was cute and we could not have the heart to shew him away, we did have to go find his parents as we really needed to continue the important conversation then and not later. So, no it's not appropriate as not everyone in the restaurant is there to entertain your kid.
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But my chief concern is of course safety here.
There are times that I would welcome a random toddler to join me at the table, I'm sure I'd have quite a few laughs over it.
There are other times it would be the last thing I want. If my wife and I are out for Valentines Day discussing our future and some toddler interrupts I would be pretty annoyed.
Don't let your kids run around willy nilly, it's rude.
I agree with this. We don't mind a nice kid with personality, but we don't want an unruly brat anywhere near us.
Time and place.
I have not experienced that. I am guessing it would be a brief encounter considering the age and no more interrupting than a waiter coming around and checking on us.
I have not experienced that. I am guessing it would be a brief encounter considering the age and no more interrupting than a waiter coming around and checking on us.
Oh my, maybe because it's early and I haven't had my coffee but I just had a mental image of the waiter coming around to ask how old you are, show you how many fingers they are, tell you his/her name, that they have a dog named 'Dog' and that mommy has a baby in her tummy and then ask if you have any children!
Oh my, maybe because it's early and I haven't had my coffee but I just had a mental image of the waiter coming around to ask how old you are, show you how many fingers they are, tell you his/her name, that they have a dog named 'Dog' and that mommy has a baby in her tummy and then ask if you have any children!
Ha! I think you now know how I feel about waiters interrupting me (but I do tip at least 20%). I don't think I've seen toddlers running free in restaurants so either my area has parents who know better or we have toddlers with little interaction skills.
I was in a restaurant where a family had already finished eating and the children obviously were bored. They (a little girl, 5-ish or so, and her brother (maybe 8?) were running around the restaurant tagging each other. The parents did nothing, apparently glad that their kids weren't bothering them.
After a while, the boy came over to me and asked what I was eating. I whispered that if he and his sister didn't sit down, they probably would get hurt if they continued to run around. Worked like a charm. The two brats went back to their parents and stopped bothering everyone.
Perfect. Their parents then had to deal with two confused children. But I got to eat my dinner in peace.
I would have told him "I'm eating the flesh of the last child who ran around the restaurant."
Given the fact that we are just starting to come out of a pandemic, I can't imagine why anyone would allow an UNVACCINATED toddler visiting others at their tables. It's really not safe for the toddler, or possibly immune-challenged adults at the other tables. The OP has no idea of the health conditions or vaccination status of the people at other tables. For all he knows they could be unable to be vaccinated, or worse yet, they could be covid positive.
There is just no reason to allow this except rudeness, ignorance, or laziness.
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" also, what would constitute "charming and adorable" in your book?
