Children on Ipads in restaurants

@theDudesmummy & @doilooklikeicare
It’s only my opinion and that’s what the OP had made this post about. I just agree with OP that’s all. I don’t have anything against people who do allow it, each to their own :-)
I don’t appreciate being told to ‘get a grip’ just because my opinion on a subject is different to yours. I do hate it, but I also hate mushrooms and I hate wine…..it’s just an opinion.

Same for my niece. She’s autistic and the only way she can cope with meals out is with her iPad and noise cancelling headphones.

@periodiclabel night night, must be way past your bedtime.... remember no screens at nighttime or you'll have your tech confiscated ....

@periodiclabel

Takes one to know one.....

How childish!

What makes you think I was referring to you sweetie?

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Takes one to know one😀

not sure why this subject upsets you so much. Are you not aware that parents judge each other for all sorts of things they do this is just one. It’s called life. Have the confidence in your decisions, accept others may be unimpressed. Night night

I've not noticed it on a holiday or when out for a meal, I'm too busy enjoying interacting with my own family to be watching and judging others. I certainly wouldn't be able to tell you what other people's children were doing from the minute they sat down until they left the table. That would leave no time at all for me to talk to my own family

Sone real crazy's on this thread! Know so much but actually know nothing...

@doilooklikeicare Exactly! Personally I wouldn't waste energy "absolutely hating" something that has literally zero impact on me, and which might just be something pleasant or helpful for someone else.

Aw that sounds like me and my DS. Mine is 19 now and we’re still the same🙂.

To be honest, I feel a bit guilty about all the screen time he’s had but maybe I shouldn’t.

@FosterMommy13 you absolutely hate it..... get a grip!

@FosterMommy13 as long as he is using headphones and not disturbing anyone, what is it to you to either stand it or not stand it? Why do you care?

Many people disagree but I absolutely hate it. People have all sorts of reasons and excuses but I absolutely can’t stand kids being given phones or iPads when at the table, at home or out!

For us, depends on what they’ve been doing before and what mood they are in. DS has ADHD and ASD, screen time is his down time and he eats better if he’s watching something. If they’ve been running around the zoo/soft play/trampoline park then they may just have the tablets, kids with ADHD and ASD have zero patience for ‘sit nicely and wait’. We usually take them to run off energy before we go out for food to help with the sitting. I usually have uno/dobble cards in their bag and we often play a few games with those until the food comes. I also have a few small toys/action figures so they have a choice of what they want to do. They always have headphones though so they aren’t disturbing other people.

However, everywhere we go most of the adults are on their phones whether they have kids with them or not so it’s hardly just the kids who are on screens.

Reading in poor light can damage eyes sight. I was an obsessive reader as a child and this combined with boarding school ( and the rules on lights) really damaged mine.

She's got magical powers of judgement .... 😆😆

This.

My autistic 4 year old gets bored silly sitting still for half an hour while she's tube fed through her gastrostomy so yes, I'm putting Frozen on silent so I get a chance to eat something at a table instead of having a shitty supermarket sandwich on a bench in the rain so I don't get judged by you lot. She can't focus on a book for that long, she can't use colouring pencils and all her toys involve her banging stuff which is really bloody loud.

And for everyone saying 'oH wElL iT's oK iF tHeY'rE dIsAbLeD' - you cannot tell by looking and even when it's obvious from the plastic tube coming out of her stomach and the syringes all over table we still get comments. So wind your neck in and worry about yourselves, we're doing the best we can.

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@periodiclabel so "some exceptions apply"? Jolly good. How are you going to detect, when you see us in a restaurant, knowing nothing about us whatsoever, whether we fall into the "exceptions" category, or whether we deserve your adverse judgement?

Parents get moaned at if their children are noisy in restaurants and then judged if they’re occupied with iPads / phones . Are they expected to just sit quietly the whole time ?

Some neurodivergant children won't eat without a screen to distract from the focus on food.
This could be the children's only screen time all day.
Maybe on holiday rules are more relaxed and children can have more screen time.
Maybe the children do look at screens all day and do nothing else, with super lazy parents. You will never find out.
Maybe don't worry about other people and just enjoy your own holiday how you want to just like those other familys are doing?

Incy wincy spider.Non stop. On a 3 hour flight.

I personally wouldn’t permit it for my kids. But don’t care what others do, but Christ if they have no head phones on it puts me mental. I don’t want to sit listening to Peppa Pig eating me dinner 🙈

Feel free, love! It doesn't bother me like it seems to bother you

I judge you, because you've no fucking idea how long the children have screen time, based on them being on them in restaurants.

I mean how stupid could one person be to assume, if they have them in a restaurant that they are used too much?

Jesus, the ridiculousness is unreal!

I judge you.