Children at a restaurant, a fight, and torture. Due to the stupidity of rude parents.

CHILDREN AT THE RESTAURANT

As if the daily newspapers weren't enough condominium fights e road, we have discovered another type of useless argument, a pure waste of brain before health and time: the fight over the children at the restaurant.

The atmosphere that precedes a clash is quite common, especially on holidays, Sunday lunchtime, and in places where large groups enter and exit. children They arrive with their family in tow, sometimes they are really rude, in other cases they are simply bored, and in any case the omelette, to remain in culinary jargon, is done. At that point it can happen that someone is complaining and from words, not exactly kind, we move on to actions. As happened at the restaurant Pink Peony in Treviso, where one of the owners, Gianluca Marcis, was hospitalized for five days after a fight with some customers. The parents of children as young as 2-3 years old had disturbed other customers, the waiters, and the owners themselves. To make matters worse, in this dramatic play by Mario Merola, the Carabinieri arrived at the restaurant, and the investigations were being conducted against each other. The children's families were against the restaurant owners' families, and vice versa.

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PLACES PROHIBITED TO CHILDREN

From this episode was born a web campaign, this one also rather crazy, for increase the demand for reserved spaces, let's just say ghettoized, for children in restaurants. While already several places, such as the Fish Fraschetta In Casal Bertone, a neighborhood of Rome, they have chosen the hard line: signs at the entrance to notify customers that «children are not accepted». Maybe we tolerate them animals. In the will-o'-the-wisp of the eternal dilemma of children yes or children no (this time at the restaurant), the starred chef, the usual clever guy, who offered to create children's menus (what a beautiful and creative Italian-made culinary invention...). And a friendly and quick restaurateur from Padua, Antonio Ferrari, owner of the restaurant Stories of food and wine, Reward families with well-behaved children with discounted food prices. Excellent restaurant marketing idea.

CHILDREN'S RULES AT THE RESTAURANT

All of this, from fighting to racial exclusion, could be avoided if there was a minimum of rediscovery of common sense from those families who often torture their young children by taking them to restaurants. Perhaps to a starred one, where they dine by candlelight and where a child can only crave to shoutA normal parent, not a Guinness World Record holder, knows when taking their child out for lunch is a pleasure for the family and when there's a risk of everyone getting bored, for various reasons, big and small. And a sensible parent doesn't feel obligated to have a child escort them to a restaurant if they want to go out to dinner with their wife: they can turn to a close and trusted relative, and the problem is solved in a flash. Trouble arises when there are parents. narcissists, with children in tow 24/7, stupid (how can anyone not understand that children need regular meal times more than evenings spent in some noisy, upscale restaurant?) and simply lacking in good manners. Nothing else.

PARADIGMS FOR A GOOD EDUCATION OF CHILDREN:

• Raising children: We're overprotective and overly anxious. And we raise children who aren't very independent.
• Children's privacy on Facebook trampled by vain and narcissistic parents
• Let's start reading fairy tales to our children and grandchildren again. It's a great habit.
• Educate children about the value of money, even through stories and fables.
• Montessori, the educational model that puts children's freedom at the center
• Punishing children: when are they really necessary? Meanwhile, 52 countries have banned spanking by law.