Our companions of SMEs and Autonomous have echoed this week of a somewhat controversial news, by showing us a photo (the one you can see heading the entrance) in which a sign hung on a Santoña bar-restaurant, rejecting customers who have children (well, some of them).
Apparently the owner of this business must be very unhappy with some customers of his bar and even more with his children, which he speaks in this writing as if it were wild animals:
We ask those customers who have their children feral and unvaccinated, keep them tied up and with their muzzles on while they remain in this place.
Children are not wild beasts
I think it's very bad taste to talk about children that way, especially when you own a bar, you work for the public and you're supposed to get customers to make your business prosper.
The same could be said without losing the forms in that way, since suggesting a muzzle for a child is something too degrading to even imagine.
But nevertheless…
However, although the owner escapes the fury and education by mouth (or by the hands, since it is a written document), I can get to understand him, because the poster is addressed to some parents and not to all parents.
Children have limited stamina and, when they go to closed places and must remain still for a long time, they tend to get nervous, get bored and look for options that meet their leisure needs.
This causes them to get up, to start running, to play, to mix with other people, to move between the tables, etc. Y not everyone has to seem funny Eat with children around you, sometimes annoying.
At that moment is when parents should act and offer alternatives to children to play something quieter and avoid other people being harmed.
The problem is that some parents do not exercise as such on these occasions and some adults (and the owner of the bar), end up being in disgust at what many parents would also qualify as "children's play" or "children's things" .
I do not know if it is a valid example, but when I am in the nursing office, some children start to open and close drawers, closets, to touch and take things and many times I have to be the one who asks the child, please, to leave things as they are to then offer him a paper and a pen to paint, because his parents do not stop the behavior (as much they say "leave that", without observing if the child leaves it, which is usually not), nor offer an alternative.
The freedom of one ends where that of the other begins
You know that my mouth is full of the word "respect" when I talk about children. Well, just as I always ask that children be respected (and therefore I complain about the forms used in that poster), I also ask the children to respect others and, for children to learn to respect, parents must serve as an example, while also being respectful.
It is true that children cry out to play and have fun, and more if they have been sitting for a long time, but that this causes other people's discomfort and that the parents do not act as mediators in this situation seems to me of receipt.
I would not go to this bar
After all that has been said, and considering that I do not consider my children to be especially feral, I would not enter a restaurant like this. Never knows one where is the bar between what a child can do and cannot do in view of the hanging sign, so I would not risk receiving disapproving looks from the owner or his clients and, not only because of that, is that seeing how he talks about children, who are still people, there is little desire to meet the author of the poster.
