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!

Very little experience of English pubs at NYE as we tend to be away then, but I am happy to feel that I am judged anyway as I used to:

keep my young children up late on special occasions of celebration

allow my children to spend hours in places with no child friendly "facilities" whatsoever (being naive enough to believe that proximity to loved people is a facility in its own right)

admittedly these outings did not always involve pubs, but according to the criteria of some posters, the city art gallery, the family wedding, the gp's sailing boat and the 17hr train journey to Berlin would have been found equally wanting. Dd seemed perfectly happy though.

I have been judged and found wanting. I think I can live with that

Cory I wouldnt judge you for any of those things, despite how PFB some people on here probably think I am!

I don't have a problem with them staying up past bedtime on special occasions, or have anything against pubs in general, we often take DS out for a pub lunch.

It's just that typically on NYE the pubs are packed and people get ridiculously drunk, and I don't think it's an appropriate place for children, be it 9pm or 2am!