Parents and their kids.

Actually that baby is your problem not everyone elses. You should be dealing with it.

Exactly. Of course children have momenta but good parents don't expect others to put up with it. If my children start up I give them one chance to stop. If it doesn't work I take them outside and if all else fails I get things to go and leave as do all the other parents I know. The obnoxious ones have the attitude that kids will e kids and let them annoy people who are out paying good money to enjoy themselves. If you can't deal with your own meal being spoiled and hving to leave don't bring the kids. Yours is the only night that should be ruined because of your own children.

i know what you mean one time i was in blockbuster with my mom and these kids came in and stared screaming we left immedaty but we felt sorry for the lady working there because she could'ent up and leave like we did

I can't stand crying, screaming children. When I was younger, a pack of around five screeching kids and their apparently uncaring parents got me so upset and annoyed... they played a huge role in the panic attack (from social anxiety) I had a little later since they always seemed to be around us.

OMG your life is soo hard! How do you endure? You should quite your part time job and write a book about your hardships.

I hate kids crying it really winds me up. I am most particularly embarrassed when my kids start crying in public and won't stop that irritates me even more, but like in previous posts you can't always control another persons behaviour, you just have to get on with it.

Very true and I completely agree. There's a huge difference. I found it annoying listening to someone complain about that sort of thing in a mall where everyone who is there is usually noisier and loud. Though like I said despite my feeling that way when my daughter completely had a melt down after a shopping trip with the inlaws (ugh lol) I ducked out of there when I realized there wasno stopping it. And if your that irritated over it working at a mall and feel like you want to quit then quit your job.

I do agree with that. Most people expect a mall to be noisy. My Irritation only comes in at places like restaurants, movie theatres and anything else that falls into that type of category.

True however the original post was about being at mall and being in a mall and a restaurant I feel are completely different situations. Or at least different enough.

One time a few months ago there was this crying child in a restaurant. I couldn't see where the child was. My husband and I were out to dinner with friends. We couldn't hear each other talk. I try to give parents time to quiet their child. Or take them outside. This time though I don't know what came over me. I yelled "QUIET!". Everyone flinched and ducked. Well, it worked. I never heard a sound again. Normally I wouldn't do that. I would just sit there and get pissy. I guess I had enough. I always took my kids outside if they were uncontrollable to be considerate of others.

So yeah. I see where you are coming from.

And personally I think it the adults that are the annoying ones most of the time and piss me off. They are the ones that should know how to act instead of being rude and impatient. Pushing past you, bumping you, walking all over children. The ones that have bad attitudes in public and are nasty because their bad day or problem is eveyone elses fault and we want to deal with it. Riiigghhhtttt. Their sighing, cursing, loud mouth phone conversations that take place everywhere because we all want to hear it. Lol the kids are nothing compared to all that.

Wow your children must be perfect right? Lol it's so irritating when other moms act like they don't understand what it's like to have those moments. But ya know some people are perfect. Lol

I agree. Crying kids are obnoxious. Especially in restaurants that cost more than mcdonalds. No one should have to put up with some kids will be kids crap just because the parents think ignoring it is a better way to raise their kids. It's not cute and it's not funny. Take the brat outside if you don't want to deal with it but don't let it disturb the people around you. You chose to have them and are thefore responsible for making sure they don't annoy everyone around them.

And for the record, I do have kids and I would never allow others to be inconvenienced by them.

Omg my daughter did that this morning in the mall actually lol. Sometimes children just get burnt out like we all do but don't have a better way to express it besides crying. I had tried numerous things with my 20 month today and nothing would wrk like the other comment clearly stated. Trust us we don't want to have our babies feeling that way and doing that nor do we want to listen to it or have others listen to it. Or look like a crappy parent (every parents worst fear) but it just happens. So all I could do today was keep a cool head and duck out of that mall asap. Lol something people just will never understand until they have their own. :) I used to feel the same way before I was a parent of two myself lol

Agree with above comment.

I used to feel this way too. Then I became a parent. There are several reasons why the parent may ignore the crying. If the child is crying because they want, say, ice cream and can't have it, nothing will work anyhow. If you fuss over them, they cry longer. If you ignore it, they eventually calm down much quicker. But this is just one example. Try to be patient. No parent wants their kids screaming in public, we all want well behaved children. But kids will be kids!

If I had to take my baby outside everytime he screamed I would never get anything done. If you have a problem deal with it.