MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
Is it OK for someone to put a sign like that in a store or other place of business? I don't have kids but I can definitely sympathize, that kids do act up sometimes in spite of parents' best efforts. On the other hand so many times I am in a situation in which screaming, misbehaving kids make me want to scream and run out of the place, it ruins my enjoyment -and sometimes the parents are obviously making no effort to do anything about it. It's not PC, a sign like that-but maybe it has become almost necessary.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a...s_children_of_all_ages_have_to_behave?mode=PF
CHICAGO -- Dan McCauley had seen one too many children at his café lying on the floor in front of the counter, careening off the glass pastry case, coming perilously close to getting their fingers pinched in the front door. So he posted a sign: ''Children of all ages have to behave and use their indoor voices."
To him, it was a simple reminder to parents to keep an eye on their children and set some limits. But to some parents in his North Side Chicago neighborhood, the sign may as well have read, ''If you have kids, you're not welcome."
That one little notice, adorned with pastel hand prints, has become a lightning rod in a larger debate over parenting and misbehaving children.
''It's not about the kids," says McCauley, the 44-year-old owner of A Taste of Heaven café, who has no children but says he likes them a lot. ''It's about the parents who are with them. Are they supervising and guiding them?
''I'm just asking that they are considerate to people around them."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a...s_children_of_all_ages_have_to_behave?mode=PF
CHICAGO -- Dan McCauley had seen one too many children at his café lying on the floor in front of the counter, careening off the glass pastry case, coming perilously close to getting their fingers pinched in the front door. So he posted a sign: ''Children of all ages have to behave and use their indoor voices."
To him, it was a simple reminder to parents to keep an eye on their children and set some limits. But to some parents in his North Side Chicago neighborhood, the sign may as well have read, ''If you have kids, you're not welcome."
That one little notice, adorned with pastel hand prints, has become a lightning rod in a larger debate over parenting and misbehaving children.
''It's not about the kids," says McCauley, the 44-year-old owner of A Taste of Heaven café, who has no children but says he likes them a lot. ''It's about the parents who are with them. Are they supervising and guiding them?
''I'm just asking that they are considerate to people around them."