My children when old enough, have to sit and be quiet, if they did make a noise as babies, my husband would take them out so as not to disturb other people.
My children sit quietly at the table, or I would tell them too, and if they didn’t we would have left.
As my children are older, we’ve been out for a very rare treat of a breakfast, where we’ve had to endure two set of grandparents loudly sing nursery rhymes to a toddler, while we were trying to eat
We’ve seen parents in a family style pub bring out a potty to a table, instead of taking a child away . We left there.
Ive been out with a Mum who let her four year old demolish a pepper grinder and spill the pepper everywhere, before the owner took it off the Mother.
I don’t think screens are the issue, I think parents are. They don’t tell their children to behave and sit still, or be quiet. And they don’t consider anyone else either.
I can’t remember how many parents have told me that their children don’t eat well, but have given them hand fulls of chocolate before their meals.
At one Mums house I was in the kitchen, when her poor-eating son, ( she had complained about this) went into a cupboard and got a huge handful of chocolate, while the pizzas were cooking.
No one else was there, so I asked if he was allowed to have it before his tea, and he said yes, he could have it whenever he liked.
And since the low cupboard was full of chocolate, I believed him.