{"id":2598,"date":"2002-05-30T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2002-05-30T14:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2002-05-30T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2002-05-30T14:31:18","slug":"kids_parents_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/30\/kids_parents_an.html","title":{"rendered":"Kids, Parents and Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne has a very well-written post on parents and their responsibilities over their kids while dining out<\/a> (and while out in public in general). Hear-hear.<\/p>\n

We’ve very intentionally tried to take Katherine out with us to restaurants and other public places since she’s been born. She first flew when she was only 1 month old. We go out for brunch with her every Sunday.<\/p>\n

We did it so that she could learn, from Day 1, how to behave in public.<\/p>\n

It isn’t easy. It’s sometimes more aggravation than it’s worth (though it’s worth a lot <\/i>to get out of the house, sometimes). It requires constant attention to her, getting up and walking with her, paying attention to her, correcting her actions, cajoling her to speak in her “little mouse” voice, and so forth.<\/p>\n

But when all is said and done, we’ll have done right by her. And, probably, by ourselves.<\/p>\n

Sure, we sometimes get dirty looks from folks who’d rather not have any <\/i>kids around. We do try to be appropriate about the places we take her, and tend to err on the side of caution. But for every dirty look we get, we get a lot more smiles. And that’s kind of neat.<\/p>\n

I asked my comic book store owner how Free Comic Book Day went a few weeks back. He complained that a lot of adults walked in and let their kids run wild, making a mess, bending comics out of the edge of the back-stock bin, etc. He was not very happy.<\/p>\n

If I ever do that, I expect the store owner to ask me (and my child) to leave. And I expect I would be properly ashamed of it.<\/p>\n

In a society that seems increasingly given over to not taking responsibility for one’s own actions and behavior, it may seem like a stretch to expect people will take responsibility for the actions and behavior of others.<\/p>\n

Tough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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