To think that young children shouldn't be in the pub on NYE?

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I single mum I know has put on Facebook that she's looking forward to going to the pub tonight to celebrate NYE with her DS(2.6)

I understand that everyone wants to go out on NYE but surely when you have DC's your priorities have to change. DH works in a pub and will be working tonight, and I have no intention of taking DS(also 2.6) out, he will be in bed at 8pm like he is any other night of the year!

Before I get flamed I'm not saying being a single mum makes her a bad mother or has any relevance, just that she doesn't have a DP to go out celebrating with, ANC obviously doesn't want to stay in by herself being boring!

Personally, i'm looking forward to some peace while DH is out, a glass of wine and turning up some curtains!

YANBU. A pub on NYE night is no place for a child.

that should have been 'and', stupid iPhone!

are you really going to turn up some curtains tonight?

It depends on the pub.

If my DH went out on NYE leaving me to turn up the curtains I may find myself being unreasonable.

impressed with the curtain plan!

Agree wd not take 2yo to pub on NYE but maybe she means to go there for dinner and home by 7pm??

YANBU, but are you sure she's taking her DC, maybe she has a babysitter?

Children aren't allowed in pubs, though unless it's a private party - in which case it's not so different to a party anywhere else.

By the way, does 'everyone' really want to go out on New Years Eve. They must be mad!! One of the advantages of getting older is that you don't feel you have to be out pretending to have a whale of a time on a freezing Dec night, when everywhere is packed and you want to go home but you can't until bloody midnight.

I would take my dd to the local village pub on NYE. Would be able to walk back with her when she got tired or if she was tiny she would snooze somewhere quiet.

I really will be turning up curtains! DH will be at work, DS will be in bed, i have nothing else to do other than watch the usual NYE crap on TV!

Tingletangle it's the only pub in the village where she lives, so it'll probably be the usual 200 or so people trying to cram into a tiny building just because it's NYE. They've got a band and a BBQ, but it isn't tickets only or anything so there's no limit on numbers.

Some of us go out and actually do have a good time though swan. I don't go out every year but it need not be hell.

YANBU, no way should a child be in a pub any night time, never mind NYE when its more likely to be crushed, and fights kicking off.

I am amazed and disgusted that the landlord would allow it as I am sure it is illegal unless it is a private party too.

If you dont have a babysitter, you dont go out, simple as that. If she is so desperate to party she should invite a few friends round to her place and keep her daughter safe.

I would actually be pissed off too if any of my mates turned up at the pub with their kids in tow on a big night out.

YANBU - dreadful IMO

Our village pub is having a meal and a band playing music. It is ticket only, it will be nicely busy but not packed.There is a room for familes and we live two doors away so if we need to we can pop home.

I think it's more unreasonable to turn up curtains on NYE

Joking aside, she may be popping in for a couple then going home with him.

It isn't illegal to have kids in pubs, unless theres a law after a certain time?

Some have a no child policy though, and most (round here anyway) allow under14's in back bars or side rooms but not the main bar area.

oh my lord at the cat bums on this thread. It's one night it's not going to kill the child (especially since smoking is now banned) and for all you know it might be just for one drink.
YABU.

It depends on the pub. They're not all full to bursting point and full of fighting. The one we went to last new year had quite a few children, there was the BBC on the widescreen TV, people playing board games (inc. with the kids), old people there by themselves, dogs, open fires, free food and a lovely atmosphere. The children seemed very happy.

That's very different to taking them somewhere in the city centre with loud music and lots of very drunk people.

Riven I was assuming everyone wants to go out on NYE as the pubs are at least 10 times busier than any other night of the year!

Depends on the pub and the clientele. if it's a good local pub with nice food and full of people you know well who are going to get gently tipsy not roaring drunk, I think it's fine. My DC would fall asleep where they were at that age. If it's a standing room only, loud music pub I wouldn't even think of it. My DC are coming to a house party tonight where there will be adults and alcohol coming into close conjunction - I think they will survive.

It makes you wonder if other people read my FB updates and st there judging. I doubt it as I only have actual friends on my account rather than people I once smiled at while buying an aubergine in the greengrocers.

I take my dd to the pub all the time ( she is older ) we spend hours sitting by the fire after a long walk playing cards/ dominos.

we are going to pop into the pub once dh finishes work at 6pm, with the kids aged 6 & 7. will be there for about an hour.

it depends on the pub, this is a local village pub and not 'rowdy'. i dont see a prob with it and the kids think its a treat.

It always makes me think of my DH's parents going to the pub on NYE, leaving them asleep in the car outside. How they rocked in the '70's