Child friendly. (Not at all)!

[Warrenellison]

This is how to commit commercial suicide...btw, the kiosk in question is in a children's play area.
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Working with the public myself, I fully support this. Though I'll probably get flamed

good for them!

I think there's a very fine line.

If a child is having a temper and the parents are ignoring it, then it's not fair on other members of the public.

If the parents are trying their best and the staff intervene, then they would get a swift fuck off from me

Having read a few of the comments on that status, if the incident that apparently triggered this was as described (small child having a 'moment', parent trying to deal with the situation, kiosk owner coming out and taking hold of the child by the wrists), I hope that the business suffers the consequences. Taking hold of someone else's child (unless to protect life and limb) is really not on.

If the owner really did get hold of the wrists of a tantrumming two year old that is most definitely not ok.

Children have tantrums. You are more likely to see these in places where there are more children. The best thing to do if the child is not hurting themself or others is to ignore them until they calm down.

By the sounds of it this person has massively overstepped the mark and alienated their core customer base. Not the smartest move ever.

What a car crash.

When Ds is having a meltdown the absolute worst thing is someone else coming to interfere. If they really wanted to help they could provide a time out area away from the stimulation of the playground.

What an appalling attitude

It's unwanted contact so I suppose it is in a way

I think it quite likely that this attitude will find favour and attract more custom.

I think that highly unlikely if you read the 800 plus responses from local parents. In 7 hours.

Of course parents are not going to like it.

But there are people without children who will

People without children who will want to visit a kiosk in a children's play park??

Exactly!

I am a pArent myself, but I dot want to hear other people's kids scream holy hell, and watch the parent do nothing about it. (Fair enough if the parent is dealing with it)

But yet the advice is so often ignore a tantrum so which is it?

All the comments say they are next to a kids park, not actually in it?

She'd be getting more than a tantrum from me if she dared touch my DD. Who knows what my DP would do!! To be honest, I'd lose my shit if I witnessed her grabbing someone else's child, not just my own. But then nothing upsets me more than children being physically disciplined.

When my DD screams in a tantrum (she is 2.5), I tend to just hug her really tight until she calms down. Works really quickly and while she doesn't then (always) get what she wanted, she knows that she is still loved and we are giving her the attention she needs. If we ignore her, she will just keep going on and on.

If they really did grab the child by the wrists then that's fucked up. That's attempted false imprisonment (someone did that to DD and that's what the police said they would charge the man with)