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.

YANBU

Unbelievable how many people think it's ok to let their children behave like this and expect others to put up with it. If they scream and get taken out they are more likely to behave themselves next time. If they scream and get given a chocolate lolly I wonder what they've learnt?

How do you know they're eating chocolate if if they're sat round a corner, out of sight?

Enjoy hell Center Parcs OP

Yanbu, it doesn't matter if its McDonald or the Fat Duck if your child is screaming you take them outside.

I have done in the past and coffee shops 9/10 put your drink in a take away cup.

I just don't know why the whole coffee shop has to be subjected to a screaming child.

Ooh been the mother in this situation, have brought the baby out, brought him back in, walked with him, have him soother, done everything under the sun and couldn't get him to calm down. Had to leave our full dinners behind because other people were giving us dirty looks and we couldn't enjoy and eat. Still don't know what was wrong with him that day but after 30 minutes we brought him back to car and let him scream to his hearts content.

neversleepagain sorry why should the OP keep their comments to themself? Why do you think it is a god given right to stop and have coffee and a meal. As many have said, if your child is disturbing others, you sometimes have to make sacrifices.

You're at Centre Parcs? YABVVVVVVVVVVU

Any I think most parents have been in that situation at least once!

Yesterday DS had a tantrum when out for a meal which ended up with me stood outside with him until he calmed down enough to go back in and he was 4 last week!

YANBU I have had a baby, and she cried of course, but I was still always aware of the people around me who may have wanted a relaxing coffee. I would have left after 5 minutes.

YANBU I have had a baby, and she cried of course, but I was still always aware of the people around me who may have wanted a relaxing coffee. I would have left after 5 minutes.

10 minutes is a fuck of a long time to have to listen to screaming. If my DD, at 2, had done such a thing we would have shifted after about a minute. Astonished at the number of people who think it's fine for their screaming child to have to ruin someone else's coffee shop visit.

I'm not. The world revolves around children now and adults come a poor second.

^^ when your 13 month old twins are 13 years old and you are at the market having a meal and girly chat you won't appreciate screaming twins in your hearing.

honestly that's the way it is. probably that's why grandchildren were invented to make us tolerate screaming brats again!

When I had my kids I accepted that some activities were now going to be off limits, for a while at least.

Things like a quiet coffee, enjoying a film all the way through (cinema or home), eating a hot meal while it was still tepid, going out in the afternoon and getting rat-arsed.

I thoroughly enjoy my time now doing all of the above because my kids are grown up. I've done my screaming baby time and I don't see why I should have to take part in others'.

Hello thebody - it is me gardenpixies

I have had screaming children in restaurants, on long haul flights, on the bus, and coffee shops. I have lived to tell the tale .

10 minutes of solid screaming is very different to a crying baby.

It doesn't matter if the coffee shop was in centre parks or the nearest high street, some parents are ridiculously entitled and ignore their screaming children without consideration for others. I'm not saying this is the case here but I've come across it frequently.

I have 4 dc myself and am always considerate of others in public places. If my dc we're screaming I would remove myself if I couldn't stop them screaming after a minute or two. That is the downside to being a parent to babies and toddlers.

garden pixies you bad bad name changer!!!!

so glad twins are going on well.

yes 10 solid minutes is way ott although of course it might have seemed to the op like that and it was 10 seconds!!!

hope you are getting some sleep!! xxx