Drinking wine in the park while children play?

I don't feel they are doing anything wrong necessarily. A nice day, a one off perhaps? Like with anything if they can't get through the day without it, there's the problem. People who drink and have kids will be doing this around them at some point and this is not necessarily a bad thing. Everything in moderation and all that.

Sounds like a really lovely afternoon to me. I don't drink too often now but I do enjoy a glass of wine.

Sitting on a picnic blanket having a 'naice' glass of prosecco? No probs.
Sprawling on a park bench covered in vomit and singing "Dirty Old Town"? Probably not 🤣

Get them early, that's what I say !! 😁

Yep done this with gin or beer esp on a Friday. Kids play /have ice cream on the green. We watch and natter

My parents never drunk in the park and I never did.

I did however regularly have several cans of cider/beer around the back of the community hall before going to the "youth club disco" though, however I'm sure my mother never drank her Harveys Bristol Cream there.

No it’s not reasonable, FFS. Drinking half a bottle of wine when out with children isn’t safe.

Friday after school loads of the parents meet at the park and drink some beers or wine while the kids play! It’s very social and we did it loads over the summer 🤷‍♀️

Usually fine. Though some local councils misuse PSPOs to classify all drinking of alcohol as anti-social behaviour. Perhaps councilors think people can't be trusted to drink responsibly without the imposition of the nanny state? Or is it partial Sharia law?

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Kestrel Super Strength
Carlsberg Special Brew
Gold Label No. 1 Barley Wine

If you buy a 4-pack, they come with heavy-duty gardening gloves

Judgy or what!

Well this is just it…women especially mothers should not do things just for the fun of it. It’s being unseemly. They are here to serve men and kids, not to enjoy themselves.

Where does OP say they were drinking in a "children's play park"? I read it as a park. The sort of place adults go for a picnic, people walk their dogs, kids play.

There's only so much hours of daylight and free time in the day though. If you can combine catching up with your mum over a glass of wine with your children having a play, isn't that better than - for example - leaving them with a babysitter to go meet your mum in the pub for the same amount of time?
I don't think that just because children are present it has to be a wholly "child's activity". As someone without young kids I would find my friends very boring if they only wanted to do child focused things while seeing me and I was expected to watch their kids play. That isn't fun for me. Makes total sense for both the kids and the adults to be having fun at the same time.

@jamimapuddlejump Be honest, would you have started a thread if they had both been drinking a can of Tango...? That has the same effect on toilet requirements.

You're not judging? Yeah right!

Come off it, OP

Your first thought was unlikely to be about the provision of public loos, but the thread didn't start off the way you hoped, with a ton of appalled posters.

Maybe they hadn't seen each other for ages and it was someone's birthday? Maybe they just fancied it? When I meet my mum and siblings in the summer, it's often on a blanket, with a fabulous picnic and bottle of something chilled.

Don't pretend your OP wasn't judging, we're not daft.

Where I am many kids summer birthday parties are a picnic in the park with alcohol for the adults. My kids are too old for this now (they are the ones getting drunk in the park...) but some of my happiest mummy memories are sitting in the sunshine watching kids play while chatting and having a beer.

Come on, don't pretend you're worried about their bladder health.

What you've described doesn't sound worrying. I'd probably notice it because it would be a bit out of the ordinary in my local park, but I'd think it looked like a nice set up.

I mean I can’t believe anyone would drink Tennents Super for pleasure and the alcohol content is nearly the same as some wines… I have never known anyone drink it who didn’t have a problematic relationship with alcohol.

But yeah I do accept your point.

I get what you’re saying but drinking alcohol during what’s essentially a child’s activity really isn’t necessary. There’s many a time and place to enjoy an alcoholic beverage and I personally believe that a children’s play-park isn’t one of them.

"I'm not judging"

Of course you were. It's different strokes for different folks though. I've got no issue with wine in the park but I did inwardly roll my eyes at a colleague the other day who couldn't operate an ipad because her fake nails were too long.
It's up to her of course. Maybe she doesn't mind not having functioning fingers.

You are judging.

This.

we were in Berlin recently and found a lovely wine shop where in addition to buying to take home you paid an extra € for each glass (a bit like corkage I guess just take glass back when done) and were encouraged to make use of the lovely ladies benched and tables in a park overlooking a playground and stay and have a drink.

There were actually several other cafes and restaurants using the same area and no one was intoxicated and where applicable kids were also being supervised.

We were with DD 18 who had her nose stuck in a book so she didn’t use the playground but did say the zip wire looked awesome and she wished she could have a go.

you're doing a disservice to the multi-taskers - guzzling alcohol into their cocaine stream

Having an ice cream in the park is unnecessary. Talking to your friend rather than both sitting in silence is unnecessary. Wearing a pretty dress and a colourful hair clip instead of a black sack and black hairtie is unnecessary.

People sometimes do things for enjoyment. Even, shockingly, on a sunny day at the park.