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[KGIII]

Bay Area restaurant fines parents after rowdy kids trash the place — and the internet is loving it

A Bay Area restaurateur has gone viral for charging parents as much as $327 for failing to control their rowdy children.

nypost.com

 

[ron.alan]

I agree 100% with this. I find it amazing how kids can act so horribly and the parents are either oblivious to it, or just simply ignore it. (And yes, I had a kid, and he was well behaved in public. It's not hard to accomplish.)

 

[KGIII]

It's not hard to accomplish.

We used to say that it takes a village to raise a child.

However, I think many younger people with children have taken that too far. They want the village to do all of the work and refuse to be parents.

I have two adult children. Both are happy, healthy, and productive. I did my job well. For quite a bit of it, I was the custodial parent.