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    mrstilly    May 15, 2010   Ithaca, NY

    Restaurants, grocery stores, and other businesses not allowing children or setting child-free hours? Has anyone else heard of this? It just caught my eye when I saw a post on fb about it. I found this article about it.

    Has anyone encountered this? I can understand it for restaurants. My dad insisted on taking me to a fancy italian steakhouse and while they had high chairs, it was not very kid-friendly. Of course Baby T had to help matters by crying the entire time. (I left the dining area right away and we tag-teamed through dinner - what fun!) I think grocery stores setting kid-free hours is a bit much. If they are going to do that, then I'd like my grocery store to set slow-people free hours, so I don't have to wait for 2 whole minutes for someone to get a gallon of milk and step back, so I can grab some too.

     
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    mightywombat    June 25, 2011   Massachusetts

    There was just a huge thread on this started yesterday:

    http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/no-kids-allowed-movement

     
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    I think it's kind of nice actually for those who are annoyed by crying babies and children running around.  But I could see how parents could get irritated and boycott that particular business.

     
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    beesknees    04.19.08   Florida

    I don't mind it.  I'm 9 months pregnant and was walking around the grocery store the other day when a kid running at full speed was a nanosecond away from crashing into my belly.  and when I lived in Miami Beach there was ALWAYS kids and babies at r rated movies after 10pm. 

    Of course I may feel differently when the baby is here, but I don't think so.  I think the movement is a reaction to a lot of kids that aren't as well behaved as they used to be.  Perhaps its the area i live in, but I see a lot of parents not correcting bad behavior  (or even paying attention to the kids to start with).

     
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    rachiecakes    January 23, 2011   Boston

    I don't mind it. Some things like grocery stores - now that's a little crazy. But fancy restaurants (I'm talking dark quiet cocktail type place, not P.F.Changs), or hair/nail salons or late night movies? Parents should know better than to bring their children out to places like that, where people are paying for the experience. I don't see kids at restaurants/late night movies but I have had a few salon experiences where the nail tech or hairdresser couldn't concentrate on what they were doing and I couldn't relax and unwind with my pedicure or scalp massage at all because of screaming/tantrums. :/

     
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    Please reply to the topic as already being discussed here:

    http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/no-kids-allowed-movement

     

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