To tell off kids in the pub

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Out for drinks in our local, lots of kids around due to fireworks which didn’t make it especially chilled but one particular group sitting there playing on iPads which was quite annoying so I asked them to turn it down/use headphones. Cue massive over reaction from parents saying they’re quite within their rights, we upset the kids etc etc.

AIBU to think that after 8pm on a Friday night in a pub is adult time and if you’ve got kids there you look out for them not leave an iPad as a babysitter

Are you a bad parent with feral kids by any chance? I have a number of situations in bars, restaurants and on a place where the tinny, shitty mouse of cartoons was not fair or appropriate, I've sat drinking wine on a terrace and a couple sit there with a loud tinkly nursery tune playing on repeat to entertain the baby in a pram whilst they boozed! People's kid's don't have higher rights than anyone else and you have to be indecent to let your kids annoy other people and ruin other people's experience.

Why not read previous posts?

What’s the difference? Not sure there’s any need to pick holes in how I phrased it.

Definitely UANBU. Another lazy scumbag family.

Well done, we took our children to the pub when they were young but only lunch times if we were going there to eat. I can understand taking them if you have no other option but once there its up to the parents to supervise children appropriately. DH and I went out for a meal for our last anniversary (pub with food) and two groups of parents were sitting next to us, completely ignoring the children while they cartwheeled between the tables. They were enjoying themselves and did not seem to care that their darlings were impacting everyone else's evening. I'm afraid I did not speak up because I did not want to spoil the meal for DH by complaining.

So according to the MN police the children should not be out after 7pm regardless of age and day of the week and if they are out they can't run around and if they don't run around but are talking to loud that is also annoying and if they aren't talking and watching/ playing with their ipads that's a good enough reason to tell them off and spoil their parents evening...understood.

Don't talk rubbish - if the parents want them to be in an adult environment it's their responsibility to ensure the kids don't spoil other people's evening. If they want to play loud games they should do it at home/a friend's house and if they want to run around go to a park or soft play.

I assume you're the sort of person who thinks your kids can do no wrong and everyone else should just put up with them.

Definitely not unreasonable!

Yes.

YANBU I find it pretty odd that parents would choose to take very young children to a wet pub on a Friday night at all to be honest. Maybe if it's a quiet village local or something, but most wet pubs I go to are just not that child friendly in the evening.

With that said, if they are there they obviously shouldn't be running around or playing games with the sound turned up. It's in no way similar to hearing conversation. Tinny, repetitive sound - whether from a phone or iPad - cuts through and is incredibly annoying in a way that normal speech just isn't.

Of course I'd also chuck off / fine people who insist on having phone conversations on speaker on public transport for much the same reason.

I got on the bus the other day and a phone was playing something full blast. I just called down the bus "could you turn that down a bit please" old guy quickly did so and apologised and I said thank you, no issues