Children running around restaurant WWYD?

[AutisticLegoLover]

Please could you tell me what you'd do in this situation:

In a hotel restaurant at breakfast there were two young children about age 4 running around and screeching. It wasn't clear where the parents/adults were that they were with. They were eating while running in front of guests who were carrying hot drinks and food from the breakfast buffet and going up to other tables and carrying on their screeching.

What would you do in this situation?

Maybe it's just me but I would post a bad review and probably shame the place on social media (then block them, cause I'm a total coward) but genuinely, they handled that really badly...

@ImaniMumsnet I understand, I got annoyed. But tbh people goaded me and talk about tripping children up/ purposefully pouring things on them got me seething. Apologies.

I would have raised a complaint about the staff member pointing you out to everyone.

Ughhh, I'm sorry you were treated that way by both staff and the idiot mum OP... Ughhh....
If I couldn't avoid a situation like this and was stuck there and especially if I didn't have headphones then... Well... In theory....
If a child is right in front of me I would tell them they need to stop what they're doing because it's dangerous /people will get cross with them... If parents want to be annoyed that someone is interfering then they should blooming well parent them...
Trouble is these days there are kids so feral that a stranger telling them off wouldn't even bother them.... Ughh.....
And yeah it's the same parents that think it's their right to let their children to stupid and dangerous things that want to sue because they let them... Facepalm.....
Back in my day...
Ughh, God I sound like a grumpy old woman...

He sounds like an arsehole.

He didn’t need to, he needed to report to staff. Potentially causing injuries to children is not the answer.

No they wouldn’t have fallen over, they only did because a man thought it was appropriate to trip one of the DC over. It’s not their fault their parent has no boundaries.

My nephew had a holiday job in a place that had a disclaimer/liability sheet printed out and if parents allowed children to run around the manager on duty would go up to them and ask them to sign to say that as his staff were carry hot food and drinks he needed them to sign to that the establishment was not liable if their children got scalded and if any of the staff were injured the parent accepted full responsibility. The children either sat down quickly or they left. Win win.

nothing to do with being threatened by 4 year olds everything to do with having respect for others and not subjecting them to your poor parenting because you cba to teach them right from wrong I bet the mother would of been the first to complain when her brats got burnt after running into someone with a fresh coffee

Thus sort of behaviour makes my blood boil!! Definitely have asked staff to intervene and if nothing done whoops - dropped something on the children - something very messy and horrible !!

To be honest, after some stern words from me and/or my partner, they will stay seated and once the meal is over we don’t hang around. It’s worse when undermining MIL is around! They overhear what she has to say and then think it’s ok! Unless my partner says something to her, I do. It drives me insane! It’s so rude.

@fitzwilliamdarcy

I am a parent. Children running round in restaurants as you describe is never ok. Unpleasant and a safety issue.

babies/toddlers making noise whilst eating in a highchair and being properly attended to - no issue with at all. May need to be walked around supervised after a little while.

younger children either need a quicker breakfast or cards, pens/paper to occupy them whilst everyone finishes eating.

Learning to behave accordingly when you have the rest of the day to splash around in the pool/park etc. is a valuable lesson and one I taught mine early.

Flipping heck, if kids are ripping it up in the cinema you speak to the staff you don't trip up kids so they hurt themselves. That makes you worse than them imo.

Again, this is absolutely batshit.

On holiday I recently asked a child to stop running around (after having asked staff who refused to deal with it). This child was maybe 8 and lost his mind. He’d clearly never been told his behaviour wasn’t appropriate before.

Parents who refuse to parent piss me off.

Sorry this happened to you and the mother was rude.

id have had no problem telling her they wouldn’t be so happy and healthy if they got a boiling mug of tea spilt on them because they are running around in a dangerous environment. I do hope she enjoys hospital food as skin grafts take a while - and that perhaps if she spent more time monitoring her own children other people wouldn’t need to complain…but I do understand other people find that difficult to do. I just have no patience for neglectful parents.

I have now written a complaint and will see what they say in reply.

Good luck @AutisticLegoLover

Hope you get a decent result. The way they handled it was awful.

Another weird thread where supposedly mature adults talk about tripping little kids up/pouring things on them.

What a bunch of weirdos some of you are.

I bet he wouldn't have felt the same if his child had been tripped. What an dickhead.

Good.

It is actual assault so not sure I would have wanted to remain his partner.

@ginandtonicwithlimes I had my posts removed and got told off for saying the same thing. MN is full of weirdos thinking it's acceptable to do those things to little kids just because they're being "disruptive "