Comments on: Eating Out with Kids http://amoores.com/2009/07/13/eating-out-with-kids/ From the house that love built. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:31:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Natkin http://amoores.com/2009/07/13/eating-out-with-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-2468 Michael Natkin Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:29:27 +0000 http://amoores.com/?p=1008#comment-2468 Your tips are spot on. Particularly #1, and even more so when eating out. We have a four year old that we can take to basically any restaurant, because from day one we took her out a lot, and never ever let her run around. If she is having a hard time sitting in her seat, she can sit on one of our laps until the food comes. And she doesn't look on any of this as restrictive, she loves to go out for dinner - it is just normal to her. The only time we have a problem is when we go out with other families with kids that don't have the same boundaries. Your tips are spot on. Particularly #1, and even more so when eating out. We have a four year old that we can take to basically any restaurant, because from day one we took her out a lot, and never ever let her run around. If she is having a hard time sitting in her seat, she can sit on one of our laps until the food comes. And she doesn’t look on any of this as restrictive, she loves to go out for dinner – it is just normal to her. The only time we have a problem is when we go out with other families with kids that don’t have the same boundaries.

]]> By: JMom http://amoores.com/2009/07/13/eating-out-with-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-2463 JMom Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:29:12 +0000 http://amoores.com/?p=1008#comment-2463 Hi Jannie! I found your post on Twitter, thanks to our friend Vered :) Those photos are really priceless I couldn't help but cross post here. I can definitely relate to pre-mommy convictions. I used to be the same before I had kids. lol! I had no idea what I was talking about! Kids can really turn your whole world upside down. And while my mantra now is also "this too shall pass" - wait, you'll really start chanting this when you have teens :) , I have come to accept the saying, "never say NEVER" because kids have an uncanny ability of making you eat your words or putting your foot in your mouth. Thanks for coming by :) Hi Jannie! I found your post on Twitter, thanks to our friend Vered :) Those photos are really priceless I couldn’t help but cross post here.

I can definitely relate to pre-mommy convictions. I used to be the same before I had kids. lol! I had no idea what I was talking about! Kids can really turn your whole world upside down.

And while my mantra now is also “this too shall pass” – wait, you’ll really start chanting this when you have teens :) , I have come to accept the saying, “never say NEVER” because kids have an uncanny ability of making you eat your words or putting your foot in your mouth.

Thanks for coming by :)

]]> By: Jannie Funster http://amoores.com/2009/07/13/eating-out-with-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-2458 Jannie Funster Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:09:17 +0000 http://amoores.com/?p=1008#comment-2458 Wow, how quickly you found my brand-new post, how'd you do that? Thanks so much for a nice shout-out. It can definitely be a balancing act to take young kids out to eat, but this too shall pass, as your lovely young ladies seated there obviously attest to. :) And it's funny our perspective on things -- before I had kids I'd roll my eyes at families with young children and the mess those parents "allowed" their kids to make. Well, being a mom sure opened my eyes to how a previously pristine table can be reduced to a shambles of crumbs and spills within FIVE minutes! Great tips, all of these. Very helpful for parents of young ones. Wish we had an aquarium restaurant here. :) Wow, how quickly you found my brand-new post, how’d you do that? Thanks so much for a nice shout-out.

It can definitely be a balancing act to take young kids out to eat, but this too shall pass, as your lovely young ladies seated there obviously attest to.

:)

And it’s funny our perspective on things — before I had kids I’d roll my eyes at families with young children and the mess those parents “allowed” their kids to make. Well, being a mom sure opened my eyes to how a previously pristine table can be reduced to a shambles of crumbs and spills within FIVE minutes!

Great tips, all of these. Very helpful for parents of young ones. Wish we had an aquarium restaurant here. :)

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