Children in Bars

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 8:23pm

I'm interested to know what people think about children being in bars. I'm an old fogey who thinks that nobody under the drinking age should be hanging around in a bar. I think there should be designated places where adults can go without having to be around children.

I also think this mother is really stupid.
"These bars are loud," she said as she held her son Henry down the street from her Kent Avenue apartment. "It's great because if your baby starts crying, nobody can hear it."


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[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 8:50pm

Well I don't know what I think about the whole thing, but as to the Kent Avenue mom quote, that I get. She's not being a careless or stupid mother. She's just (I think) saying that there's enough noise from all the people in the bar that if her kid cries then she (the mom) can deal with calming the kid down and not be worried that his crying is bothering other bar patrons. Little kids are going to cry sometimes in places whether it's noisy or quiet, and I think most moms would rather their kid be crying in a loud bar than during a quiet whatever event. Now if the place is so loud it's actually hurting the child's ears and therefore causing them to cry, then no, definitely not a good place to take them, and any parent who would do so is wacked.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 8:56pm

Give em booze Let them get wasted like everyone else

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 8:58pm

^
Agreed.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 8:58pm

I have to say I have a problem with children in bars, and BABIES? Please.

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:02pm

Beer is good for breast milk though. So there's that! In case they want to have a brew and whip one of those puppies out for the kid.

[Playbilly]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:06pm

Thread jack cuz the thread is stupid.

Do they sell booze in Broadway Disney shows?

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:21pm

To paraphrase Fran Leibowitz about Times Square "Must everywhere be safe for kids? Can't there be some places just for us?

[Playbilly]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:27pm

Prison. Go there. No kids, you'll be safe.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:31pm

yeah, that's one thing I love-women in bars breastfeeding.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:31pm

I don't like it when people bring their dogs to the bar, but children and babies? Get a sitter. Alcohol and hormones are bad enough, but to put children in the mix?

I would love to see what would happen if some woman tried to bring her baby to the Mix. HA. She wouldn't get past the doorman.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:38pm

[Marianne2]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:40pm

I agree that there needs to be kid free places, and bars to me are that. Unless there is a separate restaurant area, kids don't belong there. I mean, I wouldn't go to some place like Chuck E. Cheese by myself and with no kids, or people would insist I'm a pedophile.

[Playbilly]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:47pm

Folks. It's illegal. This is Goth trolling.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:48pm

Assuming that we're talking nighttime, what's a baby doing awake at that hour anyway.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 9:54pm

"To paraphrase Fran Leibowitz about Times Square"

Fran Leibowitz is great. She's the best curmudgeon. If you get a chance, watch the documentary on her.

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 3/19/13 at 11:40pm

LOL Wynbish

Looking at the linked article again a bit closer, it seems, if I'm understading the concept correctly, the bars mentioned don't allow kids past 8:00 PM. After 8, it's strictly adults only. Moms (and dads too I gather) with kids in the neighborhood can go there *before 8 PM* and hang out together with their kids. Doesn't mean the adults are getting piss drunk, it could be sitting around and having a glass of wine and talking. It's probably a convenient place to get together, compare parenting notes, or whatever. Don't have to pay a babysitter since they can bring the kids.
But 8 PM, that coach turns into a pumpkin, time to take the kiddies home and let the bars be for grownups only.



Updated On: 3/20/13 at 11:40 PM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/20/13 at 12:58am

Honestly I think it depends. There are restaurants we go to where you have to wait for a table. We know everyone that works there. If we had had our son at the bar it would be no biggie. Of course now he's older. There are games at the bar that kids play while they wait for a table. Again, no biggie. These are not babies though.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/20/13 at 1:18am

Is this a restaurant or a bar? If parents want to socialize over food, then go to a Chili's or something else. Don't go to a sports bar or a titty bar.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/20/13 at 1:46am

As someone whose dad thought quality time with his kids was to give them quarters to play shufflr board in the local bars on a Sunday afternoon, I will say there is no need for children to be exposed to that environment. Drunk people can be terrifying to the young.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/20/13 at 8:01am

I guess I just don't go to those kind of bars. To me a bar is a bar in a restaurant where you are waiting for a table. If I was at a bar-bar I would not be with the kid.

[madbrian]

Posted: 3/20/13 at 8:43am

Nowadays, it seems that more and more parents seem to think that their kids running around restaurants, disturbing other patrons, is 'cute'. Well, it's not. For me, being bothered by other folks' kids in a bar would be a major nuisance. I have a pretty decent scowl, so I can quiet most kids, and some adults, with my glower.

[artscallion]

Posted: 3/20/13 at 8:46am

I had the same experience as you growing up, SNAFU. My father was an alcoholic and got a job bartending at the neighborhood dive so he could be close to his friends (by friends I mean the rows of bottles, not the other drunks)

During the day he would take my sister and I there to hang around with him and his "friends" To a child that's a very scary place filled with very scary people...even during the day.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/20/13 at 9:02am

I don't see anything wrong with it. They should simply establish a day care room in the back where you can drop the kids off.

That way if you get too drunk to drive, your 3 year old can take the keys.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 3/20/13 at 9:33am

Eh, when I was a kid, 6-10ish I guess, I'd sometimes run errands with my Dad on a Saturday. Often, we'd stop at the neighborhood bar down the hill. He'd have a couple beers, I'd have a coke and a bag of peanuts, swing around on the barstools or play shuffleboard. I loved it and had a blast. Then we'd go home to mom and the bro.