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12-28-2011, 10:00 AM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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If they're truly friends, you need to talk to them. We have a core group of friends, all with kids the same age and we hang out frequently. We clearly say when its a kids or no kids event.
Not knowing them or you, they sounds pretty rude and inconsiderate.
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12-28-2011, 11:32 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
If they're truly friends, you need to talk to them. We have a core group of friends, all with kids the same age and we hang out frequently. We clearly say when its a kids or no kids event.
Not knowing them or you, they sounds pretty rude and inconsiderate.
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Not only is it rude and inconsiderate, it's not fair to the kids either. They shouldn't be taken to a place where they can't act like kids.
We make sure to do things during the day when kids are invited and if it's going to be a night time get together, we tell everyone to get a sitter. It sucks when you have to leave early because you have to get kids home to bed.
And I know RIJIMMY will agree that it's much more fun when you get to see normally well behaved parents let loose when their kids aren't with them.  |
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12-28-2011, 12:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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Sadly it is a scene that plays out all too often...it's great to do things as a family.. but there is a time and a place for everything... and.. parents NEED. to control their children.. and an adult night out is just that.. an adult night out... ... we no longer have that problem ( unless of coarse the resteraunt where we dine is inhabited by a group like you are discribing)... the youngest "children" that dine with us are over 40... but I do feel your pain..
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12-28-2011, 12:26 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,553
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Share a New Year's resolution with them.....that you are going to be clear and consistant when you agree to an adult night out vs. a family activity.
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12-28-2011, 01:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,313
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fishbones
Not only is it rude and inconsiderate, it's not fair to the kids either. They shouldn't be taken to a place where they can't act like kids.
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Agreed - My wife always makes excuses for the parents. I give her the example of her brother who calmly takes his son(s) out of the room to lecture them.
I feel bad for the other people eating near us.
It use to be worse when the kids were younger. |
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