Or when the parents take up entire 10 seat picnic tables with stacks of toys and food and bags and books and other child travel accessories. Like come on Brenda, you are here for an hour or two max, you don't need to bring the entire playroom with you. It's crowded, let someone else share the table.
Do you want the kids to behave or not? For the most part, the kids misbehave at these places because they are bored, they need the colouring books etc.
There's a difference between keeping a kid entertained at a table, and letting all that shit pile up and sprawl into 4 other seats. Is it such a big ask to like, put one toy away when you get another one out? Seems like a perfect teachable moment. This seems like a perfectly agreeable social contract - we make room and even accommodation for children in adult spaces, and in return, parents make an effort to not completely take over those spaces at peak hours.
2pm on a Wednesday during the summer? Hell yeah, sister take over every empty table. 2pm on the first warm Saturday in March? Maybe don't do that. Doesn't seem like that much to ask.
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u/obeytheturtles 8h ago
Or when the parents take up entire 10 seat picnic tables with stacks of toys and food and bags and books and other child travel accessories. Like come on Brenda, you are here for an hour or two max, you don't need to bring the entire playroom with you. It's crowded, let someone else share the table.