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Mayfield | Report | 3 Jun 2016 19:48 |
I find a couple of shots from a cattle prod usually calms them down! |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 2 Jun 2016 21:55 |
Reminds me of a time when my mum was visiting and she complained that the bus was always full of noisy talkative school kids when she was coming home from shopping in town in the afternoon around 4 o'clock. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 2 Jun 2016 17:39 |
thanks - not been there before - staying in the old capital - begins with C and ends with A!!!! |
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wisechild | Report | 2 Jun 2016 13:56 |
AnnCardiff. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 1 Jun 2016 22:30 |
We began taking our daughter to eat out as a toddler ............ we have a super place where they provide special meals for kiddies, the Pirate Pack. You can get a burger or hot dog or something else child-like, and it comes served in a cardboard pirate ship that the kiddies can take home. It comes with fries, a drink (milk or juice) and "dessert" ............. a gold wrapped pirate coin!! |
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Sharron | Report | 1 Jun 2016 22:25 |
Teaching the children that that was the way to behave in public. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 1 Jun 2016 22:15 |
:-D :-D the mum and 'gran' in the group with three children were not ignoring them, they were winding them up, getting them hyper, making as much noise with the children as the children were alone. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 1 Jun 2016 22:05 |
I wonder if some children don't get to burn off as much energy, as they don't get to go off and explore or get set loose for the day, as we did years ago. Hemmed in, using phones and tablets, watching TV more, not allowed out as much. I agree about some parents who ignore their children. If you're going to take them out, engage with them and show some interest. |
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Sharron | Report | 1 Jun 2016 21:00 |
On the other hand, we can go out or ave somebody come to us at any time we like. We live next to a primary school and there are times of the day when we don't bother to go home if we have been anywhere because there is nowhere to park. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 1 Jun 2016 21:00 |
well it's half term next week in this neck of the woods and I'll be in Menorca!!! :-D |
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AnninGlos | Report | 1 Jun 2016 20:42 |
Good manners, polite Annx if only. Yes I had the hairdresser experience yesterday as well. Woman two older children having hai cuts, no problem, daughter about six rampaging around swinging round on chairs touching everything. Actually mum did try to correct her but failed. |
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Annx | Report | 1 Jun 2016 18:55 |
We always try to avoid most of our regular eating places in school holidays Ann, or get there as soon as they open for lunch at 12.00pm or even 11.30am! Even so we got caught out yesterday with much the same experience as you. Two mothers and a chap with a baby, 3 toddlers and child aged about 5. There was only one other couple in the restaurant before they arrived and as soon as they turned up it was bedlam! Shouting to each other, squabbling and racing around the restaurant as if it was nursery! Far too young to be there, unless eating and playing outside in my opinion. OH and I couldn't even hold a conversation for all their noise. When I came back from the carvery carrying my plate, they were spread across the 3 steps I needed to go up to get to our table and I couldn't hold the handrail which I need to do with the state of my knees! I fully expected to end up sprawled across the floor if one had leapt up into me. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 1 Jun 2016 18:46 |
Strange,y enough Ann no they weren't not a phone or tablet in sight with either group. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 1 Jun 2016 18:12 |
and I bet they were on their mobile phones |
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AnninGlos | Report | 1 Jun 2016 17:46 |
Yes, we would avoid popular places but if we were to avoid the bus and local restaurants all through holidays we would have nowhere to go. I would prefer children to be taught as ours were and as our grandchildren were that restaurants are places to behave nicely. And I do see children who know how to behave so I know it is not all children. Strangely all the mothers today were not really young mothers. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 1 Jun 2016 17:18 |
We do try to avoid going to popular places during school holidays. After all, we've most of year to enjoy them while the children are at school. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 1 Jun 2016 16:45 |
than to go into town when it is half term! |
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