What do you think of these signs on a shop door?

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Rude or reasonable?

Why call them brats?

I would read it as a jokey way for them to say "no children please" and it wouldn't bother me.

Some people with kids are so entitled. I wish all shops had signs like this.

Agree, the rule is fine. The tone of the sign(s) is unnecessarily rude.

I think it's funny.
And probably necessary given the entitlement of some parents.

Piercing children is unreasonable, yes.

Nothing wrong with the signs. So many entitled lazy parents need to be told in no uncertain terms how useless they are

You may think it's rude, but it got your attention didn't it !
Do you ever think about what led them to putting up such a sign? Maybe they were at the end of their tether !

Well done to them I say, straight talk is clear and leaves no doubt to be found.

I find it funny. Gave me a smile. I’d use them if I needed to, including for DD (if/when she met the age requirements).

Those Signs deffo Need to Be Moved to Pedants' corner

I accidentally pressed the wrong option I think but, for the record I think the sign is fair enough. Sounds like they've had trouble in the past. Are you wanting a piercing but find yourself stuck for childcare OP?

Because if they were delightful well-behaved children whose parents were looking after them properly the owner wouldn't have needed to put up the signs!

Wording isn't as polite as it could be but clearly it's a privately owned premises, they can do what they like as long, if it affects their trade that's up to them.

I don't think banning children or observing that it isn't a day-care is unreasonable, anyone taking a child to a piercing studio, an environment where many things could go wrong, where they know they will be busy being attended to and therefore not able to watch or move to keep their own child safe can't be the brightest bulb in the box, or is otherwise just selfish and does expect that someone else will keep an eye on them.

Tbf , the behaviour is irrelevant. They do not want children in there , period. Unless they’re old enough to be getting pierced themselves and are the customer.

If you had to deal with the public on a daily basis you’d understand why the second sign is needed.

Those are signs that have been put there for a reason. They wouldn’t have to be rude if parents hadn’t been dicks.

This

Why can't parents keep their kids OUT of shops?

Unless it's a toy shop, sweet shop, childrens clothes shop that is specifically aimed at kids.

Perfectly reasonable and no, it's not rude. It gets the point across and is clear.

It made me chuckle, and it clearly gets across the level of exasperation they have with children being left unsupervised in numbers. I don’t even read it as being child un-friendly, just that they don’t want to be seen as a hang out place for lots of unsupervised kids.

Kids out of control?
Surely not.

It sounds as though they've had a lot of parents bringing in kids who have played up and they've finally had enough. They can express it in whatever manner they like. If any potential customers are offended they'll vote with their feet.

I went for a tattoo and as I was sitting in reception doing the consent forms a woman came in for hers with two children - a toddler in a buggy and a girl of around 5.
She sat them in the seating area and pulled out a big bag with sweets and drinks, iPads and toys.

The receptionist came sprinting over from another room and asked what she was doing and said the woman couldn’t leave her children there for over an hour whilst she’s getting a tattoo.

The Woman said to the receptionist that surely she could keep an eye on them and it wasn’t like she was really busy and they had things to occupy them.

The receptionist said “even if I wanted to look after them - and I really really don’t, it wouldn’t be allowed and we have a rule about children not being allowed on the premises which you have been told already”

The woman then suggests they can sit in the room with her when she has her tattoo and look at the iPad and insists they won’t make a sound and will behave.

The receptionist gets frustrated and tells her to leave but the woman had paid a deposit so starts getting angry about losing it.

I thought they might back down and give her the deposit just to get rid of her but one of the tattooists who was a big beefy man came out and asked if she needed a hand getting the pram down the stairs and picked up her bag and handed it to her.

She left but if it had just been the receptionist I bet it would have been hard to get rid of her.
She clearly knew her kids weren’t allowed so I imagine she had previously asked and had been told no.

Based just on that experience I can see how that sign in the OP came to be displayed and you can imagine the frustration that led to having a second one when the first was obviously clearly ignored.

Perhaps the same woman who wanted to leave her kids in the spa reception visited this place too
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5419168-was-i-unreasonable-to-take-my-daughters-with-me-to-get-my-nails-done