To think children should be allowed to run around and have fun in McDonalds

[JimmyNail]

It’s a children’s restaurant so children should be allowed to have fun while they eat their meal. Nothing outrageous but things like crawling under our own table, playing a little chase around our table. Not in any way bothering other customers. Being a little loud. Just a bit of fun.

And yet many parents with children this age or even lower manage it.

Anyone who starts a reverse thread should have every single one of their posts come up in a stand out colour for the next month to mark their shame..aibu?

Maccas does takeaway or drive through

It's important for kids to learn to sit while eating as early as possible. Running around with goo in your mouth is a great way to create a choking hazard

I really can't believe you need to be asking this. Mcdonalds is not a children's restaurant, it's a child friendly fast food establishment. By allowing your children to run about etc you're putting their safety & that of others at risk not to mention being bloody annoying!
If you were sat near me & allowing your children to run riot then I would be telling you to keep your children under control!

No, it isn't hard if you can parent worth a damn and have raised them properly and discipline them. They would 'run around' people carrying food trays with me once, and they'd never do it again! You are the sort of lax parent that shouldn't be a parent! Then you will wonder why they are so badly behaved at school. FFS parent your children properly or give them to someone who will.

I do not disagree that children should learn good behaviour but bloody hell I wouldn't want you as a parent either. So much anger directed towards the OP who's proven to be an absolute ghost and this situation probably never even happened. Says more about people who write this kind of responses filled with judgement/threats and swearing. Is that how you discipline your kids too? Again all over a ghosted post.

It's parents like the OP that are the reason childfree weddings are now a thing. Lax parenting should anger everyone.

this situation probably never even happened

Why do you assume it didn't happen? Just because the OP has been overwhelmingly told she is wrong so got the message and hasn't come back? Seriously?

Absolutely not.

That is exactly what their parents should be teaching them. At that age, in the absence of SEN, I would absolutely expect them to be able to stay sitting down.

You are being very unreasonable!

It's not a child's restaurant. It's a fast food restaurant. If a 5 & 6 year old can't sit still long enough to eat a burger and chips don't take them out.

Agreed

Probably great fun until they run into someone carrying hot coffee, then potentially a trip to A&E. And why would anyone want to crawl on the floor in MacDonald’s?????? Need a good bath in disinfectant afterwards.

Wow! You are so over-invested in this it's scary. That, or you're a sock of the OP.

I would struggle to keep my 13 month old contained in one place (unless in a high chair), but I don't take her to places to eat out at the moment as she's not old enough to understand why she can't crawl/toddle about. At 5 & 6 they are more than old enough to understand the need to sit quietly and eat for half an hour.

I think what should anger everyone is war, growing poverty, inequality, constant threat to women's fundamental rights, racism, etc. Not someone else's parenting. I couldn't care any less on whether someone else's children are climbing under the tables where their parents sit or not. My children don't do it but I cannot know what other children are going through nor should their parents apologise to every single customer and tell them about any special needs their children might have. Absolutely amuses me through to see how it bothers so many people in this country like there are no other bigger issues to get on with.

Are you the OP, @OrientalDaisy?

And here I thought we could walk and chew gum at the same time. All this whataboutery is evasive nonsense. If you're not interested in the topic why post on the thread.

But it’s very hard to expect a 5 year old and 6 year old to stay sitting down.

No, it’s not! If they have been taken out to restaurants since birth, they know how to behave by that age! DS just took me out for my birthday today. (DH came and paid for himself.) DDIL was too ill to come, but DGD aged 4 and DGS aged 2 came. Admittedly, DGS was in a high chair, and I sat next to DGD to help her with her lunch, while DS dealt with DGS; but they both sat nicely for a leisurely lunch over 2 hours in a Greek restaurant! We just had to remind DGD a couple of times about “indoor voices”, but she never made any attempt to get down off her chair; nor did DGS try to get out of the high chair!

It’s not a children’s restaurant. It’s not safe for them to be running anywhere in McD’s. Take them to a soft play cafe.

YABU