Parents not taking there crying child outside at a restaurant or store

[Jenny A]

I voted yes. Businesses already can ask people with crying and/or screaming kids, or people who smell, or people without shirts, or anyone else for a non gender, religious affiliation, or racial reason. Probably removing a sreaming child is a bad business decision for fast food places and grocery stores, but good for movie theaters and elegant restaurants. But the decision to offend the parent or the rest of the customers is the business's choice.

Reactions to screaming children are interesting. When my daughter was about one and a half, I bought her safty scissors which she very much wanted. She carried them through the store. We checked out at the pharmacy counter. When we got to the front of the line she screamed over having to give up the scissors long enough to have them scanned. The clerk asked over the screams if she should give the scissors to the child. I said, "you've got to be kidding. "

There was applause in the line behind us. In the parking lot the child burbbled, "I'm sorry I can't stop." She got the scissors when she did stop.

That was the only time a child of mine screamed for any length of time in public. Everyone ought to be able to handle their own kids. If you can't, you deserve what you get.