Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
by basisword on Saturday October 28, 2023 @08:27AM
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The options aren’t iPad or uncontrollable noise. I think you’re missing the third option - parenting the kids. Disciplining children (even just verbally) seems to be something nobody wants to do anymore. If I was told to be quiet as a kid I did it because I knew I’d get in trouble otherwise.
Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
by j7ake on Saturday October 28, 2023 @09:52AM
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This third option is not fool proof.
No amount of being told to be quiet to a 1-2 year old will do the Jo .
Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
by brvsft on Saturday October 28, 2023 @09:58AM
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Sometimes parenting the kid means precisely not giving a response to their annoying and noisy behavior.
Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
by makeitdouble on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:44AM
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Some kids will behave with just a verbal cue. For the better or worse, most won't. That's one of the reason some restaurants have a play area, to deal with that tension.
> Disciplining children (even just verbally) seems to be something nobody wants to do anymore
"Parents these days" ?
Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
by joe_fishfish on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:47AM
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You don’t have children.
Re:Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
by switch007 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @03:00PM
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> The options aren’t iPad or uncontrollable noise
Absolutely. Visit France; see many well-behaved and well-dressed children eating with their parents at cafes and restaurants. It's almost like they respect that this is actually their parents' treat time - that they've been taught that they are not the centre of the universe.
Their parents will have their phone in hand while pushing the discussions.
On the general point: I remember a time smaller kids couldn't get into most restaurants at all because they would disturb the atmosphere (and I'm sure there's still many shops that won't allow kids).
Also people are way more susceptible to kids being noisy. It might be because exposure to kids has been so low for the majority of adults, but parents will get an utter amount of flack for letting their kid cry or shout and not immediately cater to them.
It's hard to have it both ways, our modern society will need to be more open to kid noise and disturbance if we want parents to just let the kids be kids.