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Original poster

to ask if anyone's going to own up to owning the badly behaved childred in the Lyme Park cafe today?

90 replies

FishEye · 04/01/2016 13:30

Jumping all over the sofas, running around... mums completely ignoring them. No discipline at all.

Come on, at least one of you must be on here. Defend yourselves!

OP posts:
5Foot5 · 04/01/2016 13:51

I'm not going if I can't wear a vintage frock

Oh thelittleredhen last time I went I got to wear a vintage frock! And hat, and fox fur and gloves and parasol. The works in fact. DD did too and then we swanned around pretending to be a Duchess and her daughter it was great. DH is used to us now so he doesn't mind.

I did get to dress up a bit at Chatsworth just before Christmas but the costumes there were not as good and you couldn't wander about in them.

WorraLiberty · 04/01/2016 13:51

Even if the kids did have SN, I think the point is their Mums were ignoring them.

ExitPursuedByABear · 04/01/2016 13:53

Ahem - Lyme Park is in Cheshire.

honkinghaddock · 04/01/2016 13:53

I don't believe anyone that has a child with sn would say that sort of carry on is OK. Mine will be the child screaming because someone has let their nt child behave in that way and he is finding it distressing.

OurBlanche · 04/01/2016 13:55

Cheshire?

Can we add to the sad stereotyping and assume the mums were wannabe WAGS?

5Foot5 · 04/01/2016 13:55

SDTG Well if he did make his way to Lyme Regis he would be nowehere near Lyme Park - which is in Cheshire not Dorset. Still a bit far from Paisley though.

Gileswithachainsaw · 04/01/2016 13:56

I'm. surprised the staff didn't say something.

I expect the same people who allow that kind of behaviour are also the same ones compliment when said child knocks over a glass and cuts themselves.

it is not safe.

Hellochicken · 04/01/2016 13:56

Yes, I'm going to pick them up this evening Wink

Gileswithachainsaw · 04/01/2016 13:57

complaining.

bloody phone.

Aeroflotgirl · 04/01/2016 13:57

Yanbu at all op, that is awful behaviour in a cafe, my dd 8 has ASD, I would not tolerate that behaviour from her. Yes running about and jumping, fine in a park, not fine in a cafe, restaurant etc. Only on Mumsnet would this be acceptable.

Dinobab · 04/01/2016 13:57

Novembercocoa- no dont get me wrong if they were my children I would care and they'd be getting told off.
But can't see myself finding it so awful to still be thinking about it when I got home and post a thread about it on mumsnet or really care.

thelittleredhen · 04/01/2016 13:58

5Foot5 - We went for the first time in the summer and thought they were filming with all of the beautiful ladies wandering around in costume. I was delighted to find that not are they available to anybody, but that the dressing up room attendants are so lovely and helpful!

I can't wait to go again when it re-opens (and not before)!

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 04/01/2016 14:01

Cheshire ducks and hides

Mine was the one walking in random directions getting under people's feet in the shopping centre.

She was on reins, but struggles with balance and direction (hence the reins)

The other one is in school.

IAmNotDarling · 04/01/2016 14:01

Lyme Park an NT house and woodland on the border of Stockport, it's hardly WAGish.

Not me, was in soft play hell watching other parents ignoring their offspring.

Novembercocoa · 04/01/2016 14:01

OP, I'm sure they were just expressing themselves.
Do you actually have any children, yourself?

Grin
Boogers · 04/01/2016 14:04

We've not left the house today, definitely not us! (for once)

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 04/01/2016 14:05

It's especially unnecessary there - they have a whole deer park to run around in, why choose the café?!

Foreverconfused · 04/01/2016 14:07

Why don't people mention it to the parents then as opposed to waiting until they're in the safety of their car ,home etc. ...to post it on mumsnet ?

Gileswithachainsaw · 04/01/2016 14:08

It might be worth adding that not running about and jumping off sofas doesn't automatically mean sit down shut up and don't move.

it's possible to have the best of both worlds in that you don't have to be seen but not heard but aren't creating a hazard either.

SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 04/01/2016 14:09

A NT property open in January? Obviously not in my neck of the woods - everything is strictly March to October here Hmm.

I can't help re: parentage of said children either unfortunately - DD is at school & the teenagers are still in their bedrooms.

BockCadger · 04/01/2016 14:10

Oh come off it, OP. It's a cafe. What do you expect? Children should be allowed to run free and express themselves. I regularly allow my toddler to do this. Learning to dodge falling cups of tea and plates of sandwiches is part of life and I refuse to not teach these lessons just for other people's comfort Angry

I hope you know I'm joking. If you don't, you must allow your children to run around in cafes and won't admit it to yourself

icanteven · 04/01/2016 14:11

I know where Lyme Park is! It was Netherfield Hall in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice.

But beyond that, I can't help really. My two were definitely just giggling over brownies in a local cafe this morning. No running or jumping.

SoupDragon · 04/01/2016 14:11

It it was before midday that rules all of mine out as two were still in bed and one was at school.

Dinobab · 04/01/2016 14:11

It's really not that bad though is it?

WorraLiberty · 04/01/2016 14:13

Why don't people mention it to the parents then as opposed to waiting until they're in the safety of their car ,home etc....to post it on mumsnet?

Probably better to mention it to the staff, but I agree with what you're saying.