Noisy children in pub

[retirementrocks]

AIBU to think that it is not ok for parents to allow their children to run around a pub and in and out of the toilets making one hell of a racket whilst they sit and chat to their friends? Just visited our local...expect it to be busy as it is Sunday and it is a popular pub for a family lunch, but we left after one drink because the noise was just too much. It took one of the bar staff to politely twice ask the parents to ask their children to be a bit quieter and not to run around but to no avail. It's a pub not a frigging playground!

Only have to go a Wetherspoons lunchtime. I meet some old friends/workmates when can for a chat and banter. Pees me off when the buggies come in. Yes, I've been there done it with offspring. But there's a time a place for everything. And Wetherspoons, or any other pub for that matter, is not the place to bring them in.

I’m one of those knackered mums who needs a break. Took my tribe of three (all with varying degrees of SEN) for a carvery yesterday evening as the thought of cooking was enough to drive me to tears. The loudest incident we created was when my middle child accidentally dropped his cutlery onto his plate as he was being a dippy bugger.

I hate seeing children running riot around any sort of restaurant, be it a cheap pub carvery or somewhere a little more expensive. There’s no need at all.

I work in a pub and yanbu at all!! Recently had a parent ask if I could lock the door to our garden area as it’s down a small flight of stairs and their child might go out and fall down them. When I said it wouldn’t be possible as people were out there and it’s the designated smoking area they told me it’d be my fault if their child got hurt .

im, with you op dont mind kids but not screeching running round

haribo thats ridiculous dont carry hot food out thekitchen-did they not want to eat then!

Yadnbu.

Even on grounds of health and safety, this is so risky. People are carrying hot food and pints of beer around. It would be so easy for a child running around to get seriously hurt.

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Ah I see you mean child free... I reckon I know of a few of those but they wouldn’t be nice

I don't have children but I don't mind if children are being noisy or playing in public areas. I understand that it can be annoying but parents can be expected to spend all their weekends in the house or at play centres.

Felt the same today. Went to take dd to the garden center which has all the pets and fish etc (I really want some fish) but it was to get her out and because there's a huge kids day there.
There were many kids there. But it's the fact they kept pushing me out the way (I'm 39 weeks pregnant) one almost had me over and gave no consideration for anyone else. An their parents just stand there gormless.
I get children are excited etc but there's no need for them to run riot. I wouldn't expect it from my dc. Not only that. They're running off.. It's a huge place what if they got lost?

People seem to let their children run riot EVERYWHERE! Two weeks ago I saw a mother just walk away from her screaming toddler at the supermarket. She just left him standing their with his birthday balloon, crying his eyes out and walked off. Couldn't see him and was gone for about 10 minutes. Several shoppers were gobsmacked that she could be so inconsiderate/uncaring about her child's safety - anyone could have just snatched him. Same thing with museums - children completely running amok as though it's a playground...

This is why my favourite pub is my favourite pub- its strict 'no children, ever' policy. It's on a big gold sign on the door.

Fwiw, my ex favourite pub became 'child friendly' which came to mean that it was taken over by screaming toddlers and the type of parents who change nappies at the table and expect the staff to wipe up their mess. Ruined. Just ruined. I'm not over it.

I don't get how people aren't scared silly by letting their kids run riot in such an environment?

I agree with a PP about I cba to get annoyed by noisy kids in a family pub especially as family friendly places are limited ( I mean truly family friendly not pubs loosing money desperately chasing the parent £££) bit running around is a different thing and just totally dangerous...

It's a shame family friendly now appears to mean your screaming badly behaved brats will be welcome and nothing will be said. While other folk just find somewhere else to go. A lot of children are capable of behaving in cafes, pubs and restaurants.

What I don't get is the parents who's children are walking behind them.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! anything could happen to them because you aren't keeping an eye on them

The other issue is that management doesn't tell these shite customers to control their kids for fear of the customers leaving them a bad review.

Why don't you all say something rather than put up with it? We do, along the lines of we are in here to have a drink and some lunch, not to sit in the middle of a children's playground. You either advise those parents there have been complaints about their children's behaviour and if they dont quieten down and sit at the table we shall leave, oh, and we aren't paying you either, which is it to be? It works a treat, if they dont do anything, we walk and find somewhere quieter. Can't be doing with it.

Lucydogz I totally agree about the ineffectual parenting. I had to bite my lip very hard when out with a friend recently and her kids were pushing and shoving each other incessantly in a queue, bumping into us and other people. She kept on saying "Stop it", which they totally ignored and continued. She didn't escalate it at all and they didn't stop. After the first couple of times I would have been saying, "Stop it NOW or we are going home."

Family friendly does not turn a pub into a playground and people still need to control their children. As others have said, apart from annoying other customers it is not safe to be running around when there are waiting staff carrying hot plates and drinks.

Worked in pubs/cafes for many years and can safely say that this is probably one of the most annoying things for the staff to have to deal with. Absolute brats running riot when you're carrying hot plates and drinks, having to dodge them while their parents give you dirty looks. And then when one of the little darlings runs into you suddenly you're the bad person! If you want your kids to run off some energy then take them to a pub with a play area, do NOT let them run about in he dining area. It's dangerous and annoying to other people.

I hate this and never let mine run around in pubs or restaurants when they were little. We stopped taking them places like that for a year or two because they were a nightmare but learnt eventually.

We had to stop eating out with certain friends as their kids were allowed to stand on chairs, race around the pub, shrieking. Makes me tense just thinking about it and this was about 15 years ago!!

And I know of no pubs where I live that serve food and do not allow children. If you want to go out for a Sunday roast, you have to go somewhere that have children. Which is fine with nearly all families, it is a tiny minority who just abdicate basic parenting.

Strange how many "other" parents let their children run wild, but none of them are MNetters

Maybe the MNers who let their kids run riot in pubs are steering clear of this thread 😂
I genuinely don’t though. Not particularly due to the fact it disturbs other people but because I was brought up with ‘you’ll be scalded’ or ‘you’ll have your eye out’ so I’m hyper aware about risky behaviour.
I’m sure I commit many other parenting crimes though. I let my children climb up the slide at parks for eg!

Blackbird I am now searching online for this magic place!

Pp saying, why don't we complain - it's everhwere so I no longer do Sunday lunch, or galleries or museums at weekends.