Dave Smith wrote:

> Damsel wrote:
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>>>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.
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>
> 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.
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>
We used the one warning method and quite often it was just a look, not
verbal. Our kids knew better than to test whether we would follow
through or not. They have all been good eaters and enjoyed going out to
restaurants. The last one of them would have wanted was to be removed
from the restaurant while their sibs enjoyed their meals.