If your kids use screens in a restaurant

[bravefox]

... at least have the decency to bring headphones or put them on silent.

Took my two out for a bite to eat after clubs this morning, would have been quieter to sit in an arcade. If you must let your kids use a tablet etc while they're waiting fine, but please don't make the rest of us listen to it.

YABU: deal with it
YANBU: turn the sound off!!

I would say truth hurts and people just don't want to hear that some children are given mobile screens all too much.

Only you know how often you give your child a mobile phone or tablet, but we ALL know and have seen children who are excessively on them, and this is why people are so judgy on it - they don't know that it's a rare occasion so I think parents have to suck up that judgement - I've had to, knowing that my child rarely gets given a phone to look at, if at all.

There's a mum at my baby group who sits on her phone, her older daughter comes in glued to one too. At the play park, parents sit on the bench entranced by their phones, at parties, I've seen parents and grandparents lost in them, even at their own kid's birthdays

I think a mobile phone is as addictive as smoking if not more, this is why kids just shouldn't have them regularly, if at all. Sometimes a judgment is a good thing - we might think twice about doing it!

I really really don’t understand why it is remotely controversial to ask someone making a noise in public to turn it down/off.

I mean, I don’t understand why the noise-makers do not anticipate that they will disturb others but surely there are very very few who would push back. Most will just be hoping nobody complains.

Like I said, the managers of the venues should be stricter here.

This thread isn’t about using screens. It’s about screens making noise that disturbs others. You’re having a completely different debate.

When adults do it in public (and as someone who uses public transport daily I can attest this to being an occurrence that happens several times a week) they are relying on everyone else toeing the line of public and social consideration. If we all decided to watch videos on our phone with full volume, no one would be able to hear anything.

Unless they bought cheap crap from Poundland, B&M etc

Oh stop being such a snob. My best headphones that I use all the time were £5 from Sainsbury's garage. My 'beats' ones are unopened still.

If people are showing willing by using headphones then I have nothing to say about it, even 'leakage'.