No Kids Allowed 2
The Chicago Trib has an excellent editorial on what appears to be a growing movement to ban kids from places. Here’s a nugget:
In four days, the site got more than 20,000 comments. The biggest camps by far were the people who are fed up with small people who whine, cry, run around and poop their pants in public and the people whose own children never, ever do any of that.
(snip)
The no-kids-allowed movement, aka the Brat Ban, is gaining momentum, driven by quiet-seeking adults who want to prohibit children from everything from concerts to public transportation to Facebook.
I guess all these adults forgot where they came from.
No doubt, when they were in diapers, they never annoyed anyone.
They waited until they were adults to annoy.
I determined long ago that I never want to live in one of those spooky “over-55” communities. They are full of not just Stepford wives, but also Stepford husbands, locked in their little Viagra-commercial bubble away from real life.
It would be condemning oneself to a lifetime of paper flowers, with real flowers forbidden, for real flowers grow only where there’s a little dirt in which to root.
To those adults who want no kids in public ever, all I say is, “Grow up, already.”
Furrfu.
Aside:
Banning kids from Facebook I can see.
Why subject them to the antics of the “adults” who frequent that place?
October 4, 2011 at 7:21 am
Ok, I see your point. BUT! How many times have you sat down for dinner at a restaurant only to have your conversation interrupted by the kid at the next table screaming so loudly you can’t hear your dinner companion? Or been shopping in Target only to have numerous kids running through the aisles, screaming at the top of their lungs? With the parents there, but ignoring everything.
People who have raised their kids don’t all think the lack of discipline prevalent nowdays is a good thing. If mine threw fits at the dinner table, they were reprimanded. If they were running in the stores, they were stopped.
I’ve raised mine. I don’t have small children around who are acting up & really don’t want to hear it in a restaurant or a store from others whose parents don’t seem to care.
October 4, 2011 at 8:27 am
You hit the nail on the head.
It’s the parents that should be banned.
And I certainly shan’t argue that parents should take their kids to Sardis, for Pete’s sake, but families should not be condemned to eat only at fast food restaurants with playgrounds.