Children in Pubs

[MaryJenson]

On a Friday evening, hordes of them in the bar.

Drives me mental!

should be allowed. there are different types of bars. We have a regular bar which we kids go to on the way home and wait for the whichever parent is late. Nice in the city, kids can get food. staff love the kids and eill serve them before anyone else. Kids can stay till 10 (not usually past 8) and they have a great time. They help decorate for events like xmas and will have fun with there kids.

Why people think bars and pubs are for not for kids are ridiculous. We are all looking for social connections and experiences and to get off screens, both adults and kids.

All in all its about respect for everyone else. Brs should target the market, No kids places tend to be the dingier pubs and the family friendly ones are a bit generic so something that fits for everyone is special and we can only thank the owners and managers for running it in such a beneficial way.

I got dragged up in these child-friendly type pubs. Fucking horrible life.

I hate seeing kids in pubs,as invariably the parents let them run riot.

We have raised this with the management who probably don't care as long as custom and money is flowing in, so we boycott the establishment now. Would it really be so bad if a 'no children after 6pm ' rule was put in place?

Well, that rule would be a matter for the management - who, as you say, want the families' custom more than yours. That might be annoying for you personally but it's not exactly unjust, is it?

I think you guys go to shit pubs.

Absolute joke, most can't behave themselves either or have electronic devices in full blast. Usually an excuse for the parents to get tanked up without having to get a baby sitter.

I don’t see any problem with children at pubs. You can’t keep children at home forever hidden away from society. However they are expected to be well behaved and reasonably quiet as well. Go somewhere else or order a takeaway if you’re not keen on noise.

I love family friendly pubs, although it does annoy me when some parents let their kids be a pain in the arse.

I can remember years ago going to Greece and being quite impressed that families were in bars and restaurants in the evening and nobody batted an eye. It really brought home to me home child unfriendly the U.K. is.

There are plenty of pubs that don’t allow kids. Just go to them (especially if you want free range to swear). It does make me laugh that many pubs that don’t allow children are filled with larger lout types who want to fight everyone yet some people get bent out of shape be kids.

However bear in mind that pubs are struggling, family friendly pubs are doing much better.

It sounds like you acknowledge that being kid free after 6pm would lose the venue custom and money baitandswitch. Now you're quite within your rights to expect good behaviour from patrons, but you can't really think it's reasonable to suggest a pub should choose to cater to a less lucrative clientele, just because you'd like it better that way? You surely must know what a difficult time the pub industry has been having over the past decade.

You're asking would it really be so bad if they did something that lost them money, well yes, quite possibly. The corresponding reduction in business could cost someone their job, or lose them some hours for all we know. People are trying to make a living!

I am a teenager and drinking pubs have no under 18's after 9pm. When the world cup was on I went to the pub with mum and her mates to watch the England games so we should be allowed in after 7pm

I’m fine with teenagers bored15 and also families together having a meal.

These are infant and pre-schoolers whose parents are just drinking.

Apologies, I assumed others would see that my ‘swilling beer from bottles and swearing in the soft play’ comment, was obviously tongue in cheek.

Go to a pub that doesn’t allow kids or is unwelcoming towards kids. There’s plenty of choice around

I suspect many of us found the idea of getting drunk in soft play positively enticing OP...

😂

I can remember years ago going to Greece and being quite impressed that families were in bars and restaurants in the evening and nobody batted an eye. It really brought home to me home child unfriendly the U.K. is
I tend to find that children on the continent tend to be better behaved on the whole.
Most people in the UK probably have zero issue with well behaved children who know how to behave themselves in public.
Most people on the continent would probably be appalled if they were subjected to the sounds of screaming, cartoons on tablets because parents can't be arsed to get headphones, running around etc that goes on in some places.

People tend not to be child unfriendly in my experience. They just tend to be badly behaved child unfriendly.

Considering the vast majority of adults out and about on a Friday evening, (especially those in shit pubs), don’t know how to behave, it’s a bit much to expect it of their offspring 🤷‍♀️.

In the uk that is^^.

Handsoff - because I'm a short tempered, intolerant, noise hating arsehole 👍🏻

Yes, because there’s always options for adults to go to child free pub. But please keep your little darlings under control.
(I’m child free now, so not biased)

My dad owns a village pub (the only one left in the village) and I can tell you for a fact that if it wasn't for the families putting the money behind his bar there wouldn't be a pub left.

So you can complain as much as you like, but YABU.

Ah, we've gone done the 'all foreign children are perfectly behaved' route, I see. These threads could do with bingo cards...

What I hate isn't so much the kids but the way some parents expect all the adults in there to moderate their behaviour with regards to drinking, swearing, smoking etc because they have decided to take their little darlings into a pub.

Eh? What pubs do you lot frequent? Loads of kids in pubs round us. 99% sitting quietly colouring, chatting, playing computer games quietly, playing the games they have in the pub or watching the iPad with headphones in. Our favourite bar is also v dog friendly. There’s also gender neutral toilets. It’s basically mn version of hell😂😂😂😂😂

@pika

Tbf, most people who don’t smoke, don’t like to be around smokers when they’re smoking. That isn’t just parents / children.

It does get a bit weird in the beer garden of a summer’s evening, when you can see the smokers’ turf has been invaded. They’re used to having the outside space to themselves when it’s pissing it down and then suddenly there are loads of people there. Nobody really knows who has more right to be there. Smokers smoking or non smokers coughing conspicuously.

Fwiw, I’m a non-smoker who rather likes the smell of smoke .

Anyone who expects you not to drink alcohol in a pub is bonkers.

Swearing frequently and loudly in any decent pub isn’t great regardless of whether you have children there or not. Depends on how it’s done of course. There’s swearing and swearing. If it’s done properly it’s fine. If you’re an ignorant piss head who can’t hold their drink, effing and blinding loudly about something stupid, you look like an idiot to me and you’ll probably get one of these , regardless of whether or not there were children about.