Damsel wrote:

>
> > I certainly admire that sentiment, but I have to ask, if you were part way
> > through the main course and into a bottle of wine and the kids started acting up
> > would you really get up and leave? I have seen to many parents allow their kids
> > to run around in restaurants.
>
> You only have to follow through once or twice with a lot of kids. Once
> they know that they are absolutely not going to get away with it, they lose
> their power over the adults in their lives, and they settle down, pronto
> when the car is mentioned.

That's true, but I don't want to be the one who has to put up with it the first few
times that they have to resort to it. I have been in the position of listening to
people warn their kids repeatedly that they just had their last warning more times
that I care to count.