Diner Owner Yells at Crying/Screaming Baby, After 40 Minutes of it She Couldn't Take Anymore

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Have you heard this story, what are your thoughts on it? I guess you'd have to see a video of the whole thing to get the picture of how badly this baby was acting, I think it was a 2 year old.

I partly blame the parents, because they need to quiet their child if it's upsetting other customers with screaming. They can walk the child outside for a few minutes, and if it's raining heavily, they can take a short break in the rest room and direct the child's mind to something happier.

But, IMO, they should have done something just out of consideration for others present. The diner owner probably shouldn't have yelled at the baby that 'this is enough!'...but the baby was quiet after that. I think the other customers were grateful that the kid was finally quiet, something the parents couldn't or wouldn't do.


 

I think she should have addressed the problem earlier, by suggesting the parents attempt to calm their child by taking it outside for a moment. Disturbing other patrons could have been put forward as the rationale. If the parents refused to comply, and the child continued to act up, they should have been asked to leave. Interesting that the child stopped crying when the owner yelled. Yes forty minutes is a long time.
 
I'm sorry this is the world gone mad.


Parents allow their child to scream without addressing the cause, and stopping it...upsetting everyone else, and the result is that the person who showed the most common sense by shouting to the child to ''be quiet''..with immediate results now finds herself on the news being questioned as tho' she'd committed a criminal act????

What has gone wrong in the world? :eek:

There's nothing more piercing that a childs' cry, especially if it goes on for a long time. Granted if it had been me I'd have spoken to the parents first but after 40 minutes I can imagine the cafe owner was at the end of her tether and with other customers to think of also having their meals ruined, who no doubt had better behaved children with them as well. A Two year old is old enough to be asked if there's something bothering them, and if not then to stop crying or be taken out.

I'm with her all the way..if the parents weren't prepared to address the issue, then someone had to, for the benefit of everyone else ..
 
I agree with Holly Dolly above. It's incredibly rude to allow your child to scream its head off in a public place for 40 minutes, no matter what the reason (unless maybe it's the emergency room). You either quiet the child or you pay your bill and leave. Other people area not going out for a meal to hear your child scream.

What ever happened to consideration for others, anyway???
 
If I were eating there and had to listen to that child scream for 40 minutes I would have gotten up and left. Kudos to that restaurant owner.. I'm sorry, but so many time people with kids feel entitled to have them disrupt and ruin things for others. I have many times looked at who was seated around me when being lead to a table.. If I saw noisy and disruptive kids at nearby tables, I have asked to be seated in another part of the restaurant. If no other place available I have left.. My money is just as good in quiet restaurants.
 
The child may have been shocked but traumatised? Not very likely.
Children (and adults too) sometimes need a bit of a shock to pull them up.

On the other hand, I don't think I would like to patronise that particular diner.
 
Agree that the restaurant owner was within her rights to speak up. 40 minutes! How many complete dinners were utterly ruined? even 10 minutes is bad. I doubt the child is traumatized. I think the mother is trying to get a lawsuit together against the restaurant.
 
The child wasn't the one that should have been screamed at - the parents needed to be spoken to or asked to leave for creating a disturbance as they didn't attend to their child's needs. One of the customers might easily have done the same thing. And I think it could very well have been traumatizing for an already upset toddler to be screamed at like that by a stranger. Not very professional behavior on the part of the owner -- she should have asked if there's a problem or perhaps directed them to another less busy area.
 
I think she should have directed them to the door.

She is getting a lot of publicity from this. Her business will probably be booming. If I lived close by, I would go there.
 
On a plane they would have been kicked off much sooner (and it has happened). To wait 40 minutes for any kind of action seems way too long.
 
Believe me cookie I have been on planes where babies have cried all the way through direct flights of up to 5 hours, nothing is ever done...can't see tbh how anything could be done in mid -air. ...but there's nothing worse than having a baby screaming on a plane...you can't escape it . I always take ear plugs on a flight, it helps to drown it out even just a little bit.
 
The parents should have been spoken to long before 40 mins! it's very possible that the child is autistic ( one of my grandchildren is) and was upset about something , to us, trivial, but to her serious.However my daughter and son-in-law have taken our grandchild out of the cafe if something occurs.If the parents had not responded to the manager, then she would have been within her rights to ask them to leave.
 
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hollydolly said:
Believe me cookie I have been on planes where babies have cried all the way through direct flights of up to 5 hours, nothing is ever done...can't see tbh how anything could be done in mid -air. ...but there's nothing worse than having a baby screaming on a plane...you can't escape it . I always take ear plugs on a flight, it helps to drown it out even just a little bit.
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Of course you can't kick anyone off a plane in mid-air, but there have been cases where disruptive children (and adults) have been kicked off a plane, or the plane turned around shortly after take-off. It's been on the news. Of course there are no hard and fast rules about this, its all random stuff.
 
oakapple said:
The parents should have been spoken to long before 40 mins! it's very possible that the child is autistic ( one of my grandchildren is) and was upset about something , to us, trivial, but to her serious.However my daughter and son-in-law have taken our grandchild out of the cafe if something occurs.If the parents had not responded to the manager, then she would have been within her rights to ask them to leave.
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Thankyou Oakapple, a bit of common sense, I have a great grandaughter who is autistic and it is very difficult when she has a melt down and like your daughter and son in law my granddaughter has taken her daughter outside but it is not always that easy.
 
Good for her. She did what her parents should have done. If people have a child prone to that, don't take that child out to eat. Other people deserve to eat in peace.
 

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