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If you go with some parents attitudes,by all means allow your kids to run around and do as they damn well please. of course if they get hurt at this place,those parents will sue their rear ends. oh and if someone dares to say anything to your brat because you won't make them mind tell them to leave your precious darling alone or you will holler child abuse. these parents always seem oblivious. My daughter works for a library some of these parents drop their kids off and leave there for hours. Kids come straight from school and stay until parents pick them up. some of the kids are fine, they are quiet work on the computers and read. sadly some kids are very young and are left alone to tear up the place throwing books around, running yelling. some do not pick their kids up at closing expecting the employees to baby sit until they get damn good and ready to pick them up.... well they used to at least. the library my daughter works at is in the same parking lot as a police dept. After they came to pick up their darlings 15minutes beyond closing they are informed their children were turned over to the police. they library also put up a notice on the door telling delinquent parents of the libraries intentions if they failed to pick up their kids at closing. amazing how fast these certain parents learned to pick their kids up on time!!haha, just loved it.!

Boorish, inconsiderate and not at all amusing.

I can remember what would have happened to me, had I behaved badly in a restaurant with my parents, and I demanded and got good behaviour from mine in public places.

Original and relevant listing. I'm tired of lousy parents who think that public places/businesses have the right to hear their screaming brood for a disproportionate amount of time. When did bad behaved kids become the responsibility of other patrons? And boy, when you give them the look of 'do something' they give you that LOOK. (CS's favorite response to this- "Why don't you look at your kid with those hate-filled eyes?")

Not really amusing if you have to suffer through it. I have a friend who is an alcoholic/drug-addict, and he has a young son (it was the height of irresponsibility on the part of both him and his also alcoholic/drug-addicted wife to have a kid, in my humble opinion, but I'll save my rant about that for another time). I'm not a "kid person", but his son is a nice enough little kid. Sadly, he's not all that well behaved, although probably not any more so than most kids his age. Sometimes my friend and I will meet for lunch and my friend will bring his kid along with him. Unfortunately, the kid, in the way of all kids that age, likes to wander around, bother other patrons, mess around with his food, harass the already harried employees, spill soda, etc. etc. I think my friend feels that everyone else in the world finds his kid as cute and charming as he does, and is willing to tolerate his antics. Speaking for myself, when I go out for a meal, I don't want to be distracted by unruly kids (I can't stand crying babies either, but I'll save that rant for another time). My friend seems oblivious to it all, discussing his infatuation with a popular 20-something actress (I'm sure his wife would love to hear about that), or his favorite musical group, or why he can't stand Julia Roberts, or a book he'd like to read, or something that happened to us in high school that he wants to re-live with me for the 487th time, or someone will call him on his cell phone and he'll boorishly turn away from me to converse with this unseen caller. A few times, I've had to take it upon myself to corral his kid (who luckily seems to like me; he listens to me without too much grief). It's gotten to a point, though, where I've said to my friend, "Look, I love your kid, but I don't particularly love kids, so the next time you want to meet, leave him and your cell phone at home, OK?"