another bit of unsolicited advice from your favorite unsolicited advice person

[threeplusfire]

If you want to dine at a white table cloth, highly starred, Zagat featured, well reviewed and expensive restaurant in a major city, please do not be surprised if the staff asks you to turn down the volume on your 5 year old's portable DVD player.

If you can afford to buy your 5 year old a portable DVD player to distract the child while you dine in fancy restaurants you can afford a damn babysitter for two hours. Please support our nation's underemployed and unemployed youth by not buying portable DVD players and instead hiring babysitters. Not only will it help our economy, it will prevent the other patrons of this very expensive restaurant from murdering you and prevent waiters from putting unsanitary things in your food.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

[daysprings.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough I think I used to cut parents a lot more slack before I BECAME a parent and realized, yeah, it is hard, and no, you cannot ALWAYS make your kid behave, but you can surely do a better job than a lot of other parents who don't even try. I judge way more freely now that I've had to discipline and sacrifice fun evenings for my own child. Come on, parents, get it together.

[miep.livejournal.com]

my parents used to tell me that I couldn't come out to dinner with them unless I was 30 years old. I declared that I was, and at 4 1/2, happily ordered myself a shirley temple, a petit filet, and a baked potato.

I was a bit of a ham. ;)

[cjwriter.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of our anniversary lunch that was colored heavily by the "tweens" with their parents behind us who complained about everything. I knew it was gonna be bad when the boy walked in with a loud ipod.