There is no kid free zone

you were a kid once, just think about that! what shall all the parents do hmm?? keep their kids locked up 24/7? hitting children is not the answer at all. anyone advocating hitting children should be reported to the police for actively encouraging child abuse. I think you should learn tolerance of people because you obviously have a low tolerance threshold. sounds like you need therapy.

em111002 I think you need to take a parenting class... I am a mother and also work at a Day Care.. You would never find my kids acting that way and I don't smack them or scream at them.. All you have to do is set limits and follow through with them...

Here in the USA, we used to have the same problem. If there were unruly children in the restaurant, I'd say to the manager "please do something about that crowd." If it didn't stop, I'd say "I'm not paying to hear screams, I'm leaving!"

Starting in the early 2000's, most restaurants adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards unruly kids. If your children misbehave, they'll ask you to leave. Some restaurants even have signs posted at the entrance warning about misbehaving kids.

If you have a problem with the kids, you have to tell the manager.

Could nt agree with you more! god help you if you say anything to the parents.Weatherspoons have the right idea,people with kids are only allowed a few drinks then BYE THEN ,you have to leave.I can understand why the pub industry is going down the pan,its to much children & not enough adult.

I live in New York City. Most restaurants have a policy regarding unruly or noisy children. Some do not allow infants on the premises for any reason, and some will ask you to leave if the children misbehave. Recently I saw a manager walk up to the family and say "Sir, I am going to have to ask you to leave" and called the waiter to clear the table. They didn't even make them pay the bill; they just wanted them out. The problem never happened again.

em111002, we all know bringing up kids can be difficult in these pc times but they do need discipline. I for one would never criticise a parent who had to tell off a badly behaving child in public. The problem usually seems to be that when a child is told off they ignore the parents because they know the telling off doesn't actually mean anything and threats made will not be carried out.
When you tell a child "if you do that again I will _ _ _ (fill in the blank)" you MUST mean it and the child must know that you mean it.
I do know people bringing up small children now and they seem to be managing very well. In fact their children who are only 2 & 3 have very good manners and know that when they are told "no" it really means no.
You have to start when they are young.
Are you going on holiday this year? If you are perhaps you could tell us where so we can all go somewhere else & avoid you & your brats!

Who I think I am is a mother who brought up two boys who are now hard working and reliable who didn't give us much trouble as teenagers because they knew where the limits were.
I presume you are someone whose children behave appallingly all the time & don't care whether they disturb or even injure other people.
I do understand that these days it is more difficult to discipline them but is giving up altogether a sensible option?
How would you feel if one of your children dive bombed off the side of a swimming pool & killed someone? Would you even care?

Who do you think you are. I would just like you to be put in my position for one day. In this day and age it is sometimes impossible to control your children. If you shout at them you a look at as a daranged parent, if you smack your child you are done for child abuse. If a child wants to shout and misbehave then there isn'tvery much a parent can do about it.

It's not so much the fact that kids are around all the time, it's their behaviour & lack of parental control that is the problem.
I could have gone home from the aforementioned holiday in a box because the boy in question had not been made to understand that he needed to consider other people before launching himself off the side of the pool like a guided missile.

Children tend to be more by our side these days. There was a time when kids would go off playing down the fields on the swing by the blackwaters.

I used to be out everyday of the holidays, off walking here there and everywhere, all of us together packed lunch and all.

It's a little bit different today. There's this devious, murderous 'Ian Huntley' element amongst us that have an insatiable desire to kill children and dump them in woods.

I'm not writing that this element has never been amongst us, sure it has. There has been a great increase in today's society.

I'm quite content that there is no kid free zone.

Since narrowly avoiding having my neck broken by a large boy dive bombing into the swimming pool I was standing in a few years ago I at least try to avoid too many kids on holiday. Last year we went to an adult exclusive hotel, the Ascos Coral Beach, near Paphos on Cyprus. YES, it was a CHILD FREE ZONE. 2 weeks of peace & quiet. I would recommend it to anyone.

CHAINSAWS!!?? AXES!!??

They make too much of a mess. Best use a nail gun.