RE: Parents not taking there crying child outside at a restaurant or store
April 29, 2016 at 8:34 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2016 at 8:37 pm by Regina.)
I feel like restaurants should have the freedom to have "no children under [insert age here]" policies to prevent it in the first place. I think kicking out a family who already paid for their food is kinda shit.
In shops I'd definitely say it's ok to ask the family to leave, or request one of the parents to take the child while the other parent remains if they're in a queue. When I was working in retail in 2013, I remember this family came in. Their baby was crying from when they walked through the door, all around the shop, for the 20 minutes they were standing in the queue. It just didn't. stop. crying. It was ear-splitting on a busy as fuck summer day when it was already like 32 degrees (no AC), it was boiling, we were already stressed the f out. We didn't need that extraness in our ears.
Like seriously do something about it, your kid is bawling. It's not just for our ears' sakes, your child clearly needs something.
In shops I'd definitely say it's ok to ask the family to leave, or request one of the parents to take the child while the other parent remains if they're in a queue. When I was working in retail in 2013, I remember this family came in. Their baby was crying from when they walked through the door, all around the shop, for the 20 minutes they were standing in the queue. It just didn't. stop. crying. It was ear-splitting on a busy as fuck summer day when it was already like 32 degrees (no AC), it was boiling, we were already stressed the f out. We didn't need that extraness in our ears.
Like seriously do something about it, your kid is bawling. It's not just for our ears' sakes, your child clearly needs something.
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