Parents deliberately winding up children

Vintagejazz

GrannyGravy13

So a Father interacting with his child is wrong, maybe it was a little bit too loud, but I would rather see parent child interaction than all sat with their heads in individual devices.

Why does it have to be either or? I see many parents interacting with their children in restaurants without encouraging such a racket it ruins other customers meals.

If the child was too noisy due to their Father playing with the and when it was pointed out to the Father the situation was resolved, all was fine.

I remember being in a very posh restaurant in France with our two young children. I kept them entertained by telling them the story of the cave in Lascaux - most of it made up. When the food appeared the people at the next table begged me to go on as they wanted to know how it finished!

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GrannyGravy13

So a Father interacting with his child is wrong, maybe it was a little bit too loud, but I would rather see parent child interaction than all sat with their heads in individual devices.

Why does it have to be either or? I see many parents interacting with their children in restaurants without encouraging such a racket it ruins other customers meals.

No you are not being unreasonable Vintagejazz.

There are many ways a parent can interact with their child without eliciting screams and very loud laughter.

Appalling behaviour from the father. I would have been the customer to tell him to pipe down. A restaurant where people go to enjoy a pleasant meal and conversation is not the place to indulge in performance parenting.

We stopped going out for a while with a couple who had a toddler like this. It was really embarrassing as it was quite an upmarket venue and we were known to the manageress having been and taken our GC on numerous occasions. They provided crayons and games but non were played with. The father sat with a huge smile on his face as said toddler wandered from table to table with sticky fingers and reached up to other people's plates encouraged by whoops of delight from both parents.
We hurriedly asked for the bill and left when it was obvious that it had happened before and considered normal by the parents and encouraged by the fathers whoops.
It does make you reaccess the adults doing it when you know them personally.

So a Father interacting with his child is wrong, maybe it was a little bit too loud, but I would rather see parent child interaction than all sat with their heads in individual devices.

My DD will do this with my DGS. Right before bedtime. I get as wound up as him.

In this case it was the father who was annoying. A small child will respond with squeals and shrieks to that behaviour.
We usually take some paper and coloured pencils and draw with our 3 year old GS so other people aren't inconvenienced.
I do wonder why some people don't seem to be aware of others around them and just do what they like.

No you aren’t. I would have been pretty hacked off. Good for the man who got him to stop. Some parents have no idea how aggravating their children are to others.