'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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what is the etiquette in which you bring young children to a restaurant and have them use loud videos or toys to keep them entertained? Is this regular practice, rude, a mix?
Um, rude. The purpose of bringing toys/entertainment to a restaurant for your children is to keep them QUIET. Loud toys just make things worse!
what is the etiquette in which you bring young children to a restaurant and have them use loud videos or toys to keep them entertained? Is this regular practice, rude, a mix?
Unless it's something like a sports bar (and thus very loud already), I think it's rude. But I think handheld videos or toys used quietly are marvelous.
I just looked up a guy at Stanford for the mail room, because we got a package addressed to him, but with our address.
The last sentence of his biography [link] makes me think that he sounds like an awesome guy, but Stanford really needs better web editors:
Karl enjoys scuba diving, basketball and two daughters, drives an electric car, and makes excellent homemade beer.
what is the etiquette in which you bring young children to a restaurant and have them use loud videos or toys to keep them entertained? Is this regular practice, rude, a mix?
If loud enough to disturb other patrons, rude. I brought toys, coloring books, etc, but toys were silenced.
I never let the kids bring electronics when they were little, not that there were a lot of options then. We colored or played tic-tac-to or I-spy or the alphabet game.
Karl enjoys scuba diving, basketball and two daughters, drives an electric car, and makes excellent homemade beer.
Wow. I love how his daughters are lumped right in there with basketball and his electric car.
I don't think handheld video games are inherently rude, but honestly headphones are not difficult or expensive.
Well he apparently only enjoys basketball with his two daughters. Or that's the only time he enjoys the daughters. Poor kids, man. That's a very narrow criteria.
They don't even specify that they are his daughters though. It kind of sounds like he likes to boff his basketball buddies' daughters.
Any random daughters will do, but there has to be two of them.
I went to the bakery and bought two petit fours because I couldn't help myself.
In other news, I work much too close to the bakery.