To think the family with the screaming baby...

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Should leave the coffee shop rather than try and pacify him for this last 10mins - my head hurts - how are they enjoying this? I always left coffee shops when my kids kicked off.

If I had some proper child free time I dint think i'd opt for a package holiday - we only go to centre parcs because the kids like it - wouldn't catch me here without the kids. Why on earth would anyone go to centre parcs without kids?

OP, why don't you leave if it's bothering you so much?

What is wrong with people who get it into their heads that a public place is only for people that they deem appropriate?

Right so the baby turned into two screaming twins

I had a screamer. I didn't go out. It was too horrific and stressful.

My three best friends recently took me out for a special birthday. 8pm table in a very posh restaurant. There was a tiny newborn at the next table who screamed and screamed the whole way through our meal. The adults with the baby didn't take her out of her car seat and just rocked it the whole time.

I asked to be moved in the end - the noise was going right through me and I could feel myself getting stressed and anxious.

They need to be mindful of the other people in the location. It's called basic manners.

So shoot me.

Which was probably why the noise was so awful - there was 2 of them crying, one was initially out of sight!

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Very well put.

But I have been to CP with adults only - much less expensive when you're only paying for yourself - and we had brilliant times. We must have managed to avoid the screamers.

OP, why don't you leave if it's bothering you so much? What is wrong with people who get it into their heads that a public place is only for people that they deem appropriate?

Because a coffee shop isn't an appropriate place for screaming children.

I can honestly say, I've never minded hearing screaming kids as long as they're not my own. I can just screen other people's out.

The only time I've ever thought parents should take them out, is at school plays and such.

OP move tables... I have 2yr old twins and i promise you, if she feels anything like i do at the moment (and every multiple parent i know with similar aged children) she is probably ready to curl up and cry...

Im not saying you should enjoy it or put up with it, but if you dont like it, you move.

All quiet now they have lett. We took our dcs out all the time when they were small, if they kicked off we left - I wouldn't ask anyone to sit in a public venue with my dcs screaming.

When did a coffee shop become a library? Or a church?

It's a coffee shop ffs. And it was 10 minutes, not an hour. And the OP has said that the children calmed down when they were given a lollipop.

People need to have a bit of patience. I was in a coffee shop last week and there was a screaming baby a couple of tables over. I was reading my book.

I did glance up, caught the Mum's eye and gave her a sympathetic smile. Unlike the tutting women at another table.

As someone upthread said, if you want a quiet coffee, stay at home. You can't have it both ways. If you go to a public place, you're going to encounter members of the public and they aren't going to be to your liking.

Personally, I think people with small children are easy targets for OP and the like. Why don't you save your complaining for people spitting/swearing etc - they're the ones who piss me off.

Goofy I have twins - I know how she feels, I'd have left, because it doesn't feel good sitting there with screaming babies..it feels better to go home and put them to bed.

You don't know they were tired OP. You're assuming. They may have been teething. It could have been any number of things.

Btw, you know you don't actually own the coffee shop, don't you? Or have any say over who frequents it.

Rarely notice anyone spitting....swearing doesn't bother me...I guess we all have our own list of things that irk us.

Is there anywhere left that is a refuge for any adult wanting a bit of peace and a coffee?

If Olivia were here she'd 'peace and love' this thread, you know?

It's a coffee shop in Center Parcs

You are on the wrong holiday. YABU.

I don't need to own a venue to have a desire to have a normal level of noise, whether I said it on here or not, it's still how I'd feel and many others would agree - as many as would disagree.

What did you expect in Centre Parks?! YABU.

By baby I thought u meant like approx 6months old

Unless there's no age restrictions you are being unreasonable! As also a parent to twins, perhaps you should be more sympathetic to the fact the other parent has two children to calm and not judge her !

Yes there are youthecat - but don't expect to find them at Center Parcs.

Well i would say not a CP coffee shop, its practically a big creche, we took our three boys once and I would never go again, it is sheer organised, plastic hell...

You the Cat - your own kitchen?

Yes, Youthecat - it's called 'home'

It's not just Centre Parks though is it? It could have been any place.

I never took my twins anywhere like that when they were small. I knew it wouldn't go down well with them. We'd go to a food court that was child orientated where there were always other babies around to drown out the sound of mine.