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.

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

My kid, who is a little live wire, has done this since he was tiny. Because he knows eating out is a treat and he enjoys it. Take colouring?

Since when has McDonald’s been a child’s restaurant? It may be a child friendly one, but plenty of adults go without kids in tow. Saying that as long as your kids weren’t knocking into me or screeching in my ear I wouldn’t care what you allowed them to do, though I would have thought sitting nicely at the table for all the time it takes to eat a happy meal wouldn’t be too much to ask of them.

Yabu obviously
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Really? How on earth do they manage at school all day. It's not actually hard to expect children to sit down - it's just up to you to make sure they do. It's that crazy thing called parenting.

I don't think you'll like it when they run into someone and a hot drink goes all over them. Seriously, control your children.

YABVU

its absolutely not a childrens restaurant, it’s a fast food place for all ages. Your little brats running around could trip someone carrying hot food and drinks. Plus nobody wants to have to deal with your kids misbehaving because you can’t be arsed to parent them properly.

McDonalds is not and has never been, a "children's restaurant". There is no such thing as children' restaurants, that I know of.

I think you should learn to parent your children, why should you let them be a nuisance to others because you cant be bothered to get them to behave 🙄

Surely this is a reverse? It’s not a children’s restaurant. I would not like children running round. Most parents teach their dc to sit down in a restaurant, it’s not safe for them to be running round nor is it the appropriate place.

A children's restaurant? I thought it was a place to help me deal with my hangovers?

Of course it's not OK 🙄

@Bornsloppy

In those circumstances, strictly drive through 😂.

It isnt a childrens restaurant.

it’s a fast food restaurant. That caters to children attending by having activities they can do AT THE TABLE.

i think you are getting confused with what we call - a playground.

you’re welcome.

Why would you tolerate a child under a table???

Aaah... bollox to all these unfinished posts...

You need to teach your kids that they can run around, make noise and have fun in appropriate places, which isn't a cafe or restaurant (whether it's cheap or not). It's not called McDonald's Adventure Playground, after all.

As long as you are similarly relaxed when your feral children end up with burns because they ran into someone with hot coffee on their tray I supposed it's fine.

I wouldn't allow my 2 and 3 year old DC to do that in McDonalds, let alone children of 5 and 6. It's a place to sit and eat. If they want to run around then take them to a park or a soft play centre.

Nonsense. That's just lazy parenting.

Actually you got a very old fashioned vision of schooling. Its been proven that children at this age indeed cannot spend the whole day sitting in the classrooms. Thats why many public schools have moved away to learning through play strategy. That was specifically designed that children can move around the classroom more freely, sit on the carpet, play outside a lot, do studying in more informal way. Most schools in Scotland are doing that for 5-7 year old now.

How the hell does it bother anyone else if they are under their own table?? I've seen kids climb under the tables all the time all around the world, no one would blink an eye in this country people start typing a mumsnet post straightaway judging the parents.
For example In Scandinavian countries tantrums are considered for example a normal stage and a way for toddlers to express their feeling and not something that parents should instantly stop/teaching a child that its not ok . I am not saying that running, shouting and climbing is ok but I do not agree that children should always act like robots.

They still teach them to sit and eat their lunch. Not crawl under the table. Or run around the dinner hall.

it’s not outdated to teach your children basic social skills.

spending a whole day at a desk is a totally different thing.

But surely there are times in school when the children are expected to sit and listen, and can’t just run around playing chase or hiding under the table? Obviously this will be shorter for younger children, but even 5 and 6 year olds are going to have to sit down and listen to a story or do some schoolwork, and won’t be allowed to run around playing chase.

I don’t think @Staynow was suggesting that 5 and 6 year olds are expected to sit down and work quietly for the whole of the school day!

It is not just restaurants or at a desk in school where young kids are expected to sit still. Hospital/doctor waiting rooms and public transport are places where their volume should be turned down too.