Mother encouraging her child to scream in restaurant

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I was in a restaurant and a mother with a baby aged about 10-12 months and in a high chair were at a table near us. The baby was playing happily with a plastic toy when the mother suddenly dropped her spoon on the floor. He thought it was funny and gave a happy squeal. So the mum kept pretending to drop the spoon to make him laugh. The problem was that each time the laugh got more and more high pitched and in the end he was literally screaming with excitement every time she went to 'drop' the spoon.

This went on for ages and people were turning around and giving her annoyed looks and two women at the table beside them moved away.

AIBU to think she was being really inconsiderate and that this went beyond just a bit of happy playing and strayed into noisy and disruptive behaviour (from the mum, obviously, not the baby).

That's utter bollocks. The usual line is call 101.
At midnight? Nooo. It's usually call 101 by 8:30pm if the neighbours are having a BBQ and you can hear the fact there's people there. Bonus points if you can also get a story in about how any outside noise is tantamount to invoking lasting trauma in your own child (and yet they opt to live near neighbours).

Don't even go there on children playing in a garden during the day, neighbours using a portable radio whilst they do the gardening. Any noise during the day that one happens not to like is instantly an infringement on the poster's right to 'quiet and peaceful enjoyment of their garden'.

Though to be fair, most people are quite reasonable. Reasonable nosie for the context is probably ok even if we may not personally like it. When people are excessively loud, inconsiderate, disruptive and show no concern for others then they are ruse.

Ah but children playing in the garden is different to adults having a party on MN ime. Because again it's children and they are easy prey for a pop at .

As you say thankfully most people are reasonable despite some overreaction on this thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3346594-Oh-dear-neighbours-party-has-begun

Here's a live thread disagreeing with you. Pretty much all saying party/garden noise is unreasonable if it goes on too late.

Ah but children playing in the garden is different to adults having a party on MN ime. Because again it's children and they are easy prey for a pop at

It's the mum in this OP that people were having a pop at.