Quote:
|
No, there is a third option - the one I was raised under. Teach kids to behave in public. They're not too young to start, you know. Don't think of a restaurant as a Hands-On Discovery Science Museum/Playground. Think of it as a place where people like to eat in peace and civility.
|
Ah, so we do have some common ground. I agree that children should behave when out in public. I agree that parents are resposible for teaching their children manners. That doesn't necessarily preclude bottle in microwaves and snot/cheese covered chins.
Quote:
|
Get a fucking babysitter! And don't bring your toddler to watch X-Men!!! Or Silence of the Lambs (I kid you not!)! Or Jurassic Park!
|
I partly agree with you. We've taken our baby (7 months old) to see three movies now, Pirates of the Carribean II, and two others I can't recall off the top of my head. If he even starts to talk (gabber) during the movie, my wife takes him to the door aisle and walks him around and he's quiet. If he FUSSED, he'd go to the lobby with one of us. For the most part he loves the movies. We haven't had any inconsiderate issues arise the three times we've gone. As for content, that's debatable. I was raised by a mother addicted to horror flicks and saw many at an age "younger" than one would consider politically correct these days. It didn't scar me though (or scare me), if anything, it made me LESS scared than your typical little kid. *shrug*
Quote:
|
If you go to McDonalds or a chain like Olive Garden dont expect to not see kids. Your options are expensive restaurants or cooking at home.
|
I'm also not sure why people assume that expensive restaurants are child-free. Surely they're less tolerant of poorly behaved children, but I don't think many have a strict no kid policy. Where do you think rich people take their families to eat? Olive Garden of McD's? I don't think so...
Quote:
|
That is wrong. Wrong of the waiter to do it, and more wrong of the parent to ask.
|
Why is this? Can you find me a single state or local health code that this violates? Can you give me any actual data or logical reason behind this being "wrong"? It's not unsanitary, first of all. Bottles are usually used once, then washed then used then washed. Even if the bottle HAD been unwashed since the last feeding, the slobber is generally on the nipple, which doesn't TOUCH the microwave, and the microwave is going to kill most germs. Also, as I noted before, there are for more disgusting things at even most GOOD restaurants than a bottle in a microwave... things that you actually SHOULD be worried about. *boggle*
Quote:
|
As for the OP, well, I've seen a lot worse. Thank the restaurant gods that he just wanted a bottle warmed up and wasn't changing a diaper, changing the kid's clothes or wiping dog shit off his kid's shoe with the cloth napkin. (Been there, seen that.)
|
Please note that this describes a deficiency with the adult, not the child...
Quote:
i was on a flight last year, where this idiot mother, changed her kids nasty diaper and dropped it on the beverage cart for the flight attendent to toss out - I swear by all that is holy, the flight attendent was going to evict this woman at 35000 feet.
it was bad enough she changed the diaper while the kid (who was old enough to be potty trained) was standing on the seat (didn't even go to the rest room( she didn't even put the dirty stinky diaper into the air sick bag..
|
Again, adult deficiency, not child. How's the kid supposed to know better if the mom is a dumbass?
Quote:
|
Not to thread jack or anything, but every baby book I have read says NEVER heat up a baby bottle in the microwave. Apparently the contents of the bottle don't heat up evenly, and if the bottle is improperly shaken, the baby could be seriously burned.
|
This is true, but more of a CYA than a real issue. Becuase of the fats in the milk, it CAN heat up unevenly, but by the time it leaves the microwave and gets to the kid (unless the kid is IN the microwave with the bottle), it's going to redistribute. You shouldn't put it in for more than 15s or so regardless. *shrug*