“Actually, it is discriminatory to disallow children altogether.”

This isn’t that complicated. There are plenty of kid friendly places, including restaurants, out there. It’s the invasion of kids into what used to be understood as adult only spaces, like bars, and then said kids acting out with no parental control that there is now a rash of places implicitly banning kids. It…

This, but about public transit. I take the MBTA Orange line into work every day and it’s the most miserable thing in the entire world including having to go home for Christmas or having to work with an ex who’s about to get married and wants to tell me all about his special day. Unless you’re on at 7:30am or 9am it’s…

I don’t think its “cool now to hate kids” but stories like these are getting more prevelent and for some reason parents are getting worse. Its not the rest of the world’s privilege to hear/see little Johnny or Jenny scream, cry, throw shit, and/or run around in restaurants or public places. Maybe its always been this…

Hell yeah. Nowadays, we don’t need more kids. They’re an expensive hobby. That you should keep out of everyone else’s face when it acts up.

Babies at least are on the behavioral level of animals. They can’t eat, drink, or take a shit without someone monitoring them. They’re basically dogs that grow into humans, and even dogs get paper-trained faster than a baby. By any criteria other than genetics, if you ask me, they sure don’t act human at all.

My family lives in Newport, RI. Yelling at a baby is a reasonable reaction to the bullshit one has to deal with during the summer.

I stepped on a child the other day while holding a tray. It was a controlled crash as we had a full 180 pax in our dining area that realistically should take 140 and I had a colleague backing away from a table clearing plates coming right at me and if I stopped for the kid we’d be left with 6 plates and a tray of…

I run a boutique. I wrote earlier, but will re-iterate: I can’t afford your kids in my store. I will not watch them. I have snatched things out of children’s hands. I will make you clea up your mess. I hate strollers more than anything, and for fuck’s sake, you literally need NOTHING in here, please, please, please…

There is no shortage of people on the planet. People who have children are not bestowing a magnificent gift upon the rest of the population.

No. Children need to be parented and can’t make decisions for themselves, work, drive, have sex, or even decide what to eat every day. There is nothing wrong with restricting certain spaces to adults only and there is nothing wrong in expecting parents to parent their children when they’re out in public. Get a grip.

If establishments liek sex shops, movie theatres, bowling alleys and theme parks can do it, then by golly- so can a restuarant!

her response? “Well where is he supposed to play?”

But, newsflash, children are not “almost humans”

What if this was a dog? Would people be condoning screaming at a dog? No! Because that’s just cruel! A dog doesn’t understand what it’s doing wrong, so screaming at it does nothing but make it scared. A toddler doesn’t really have much more of a capacity to understand why you’re screaming at them. (In fact, this one…

Is there ever a time when a restaurant employee is justified in saying something in that situation?

I’m from Maine and something that’s been missing from every one of these stories that I wish someone would point out: We’re entering the fucking height of tourist season.
Tourists come into our state and because they spend their money act like all spaces belong to them. They’re entitled to parking that blocks roads and…

Dear Moist Groin Supper,

I’ve never been a big fan of the children personally, but, hey, everybody’s gotta eat! One of the saddest restaurant stories I can remember was a young couple with a screaming child. My friend and I were good-naturedly judging them over our mimosas when we heard the mom say, “Well, what do you want me to do? I left…

I don’t like children as a general rule, so my take on this issue is inherently biased, but I’m gonna spew crap out of my face-hole anyway.