Children in pubs: GOOD or BAD?

[Man of Harveys]

After having a very nice afternoon in a nice pub spoiled by hordes of lunatic children running around everwhere yesterday, I would maybe question the wisdom of letting the little brats into pubs. When I was a young laddy, I'd happily sit in the car, playing with the steering wheel with a packet of crips and a bottle of Coke only to be smuggled into the dark, steamy pub itself when I needed a piss - I used to like the air of mystique this gave to pubs. Now, some pubs even have PLAYGROUNDS inside them so that glum-looking fathers can keep an eye on their charges running off their fastfood on some climbing frame AND nurse a pint at the same time.

Which do YOU prefer?

 

[Hadlee]

Providing the Kids are well behaved its a good idea.

The Child freindly ones are the best ie play area for them so us Parents can enjoy a pint.

 

[smudge]

Kids out!!!

 

[Billy the Fish]

Neither. There should be a choice, if you don't like kids then just go to a pub where they are all barred. Personally kids in pubs get on my tits, so (without sounding like a paedo) anywhere with a playground is off limits for me.

 

[cannedheat]

No.

Kids should be kept out , its a pub for christ sake not a playschool.

 

[Captain Pugwash]

kids up until 7pm if i owned a pub.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I am more averse to dogs in pubs. Unless the drinker is a blind or a gaymuttophile. Then it's guru and groom, which i believe to be fair reason.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

When my kids were young - good idea.

Now they don't out with us any more - bad idea.

I hope this helps.

 

[Rambo]

No Kids.

 

[Bluejuice]

No place for children in pubs.

If you have to take your sprogs out to the boozer try to take them to some soulless chain bar on the outskirts of town. Somewhere with ample parking and a Charlie Chalk adventure zone or what not.

I do not want to have to hear your kids arsing about making me conscious of using the C word when I am perfectly entitled to.

KIDS OUT

 

[Man of Harveys]

I am more averse to dogs in pubs. Unless the drinker is a blind or a gaymuttophile. Then it's guru and groom, which i believe to be fair reason.

It is indeed. Could I suggest you avoid the Fox and Grapes on Wimbledon Common on Sundays? In between the makeshift tartrazine kindergarten and hideously obnoxious moneyed bejumpered 60-somethings bellowing orders at affable antipodean barstaff, at one stage I (honestly) glanced down at my feet to see two SPANIELS fighting down there. Not good.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Now, what about a 14 year old who has had 9 too many and one too few?
I would be fine sitting next to her and easing her through the rest of the evening if i have no one better to do. I could show her sodukus and the invisible riddles of newspapers and ask her why there are bogeys on toilet walls and cleaners seem to approach bog floors with terror rather than bleach. Her name is Eve and she has trouble with geography and maths, largely with directions and bus numbers, but has a dabber's hand at home economics with Mrs Dixon on a Tuesday and is better at English lit than her mother wills her to be. She doesn't remember Rude Dawg and the Dweebs, but is better friends with some of the dogs she walks for a tenner each Sunday than she is with teens in the congregation. Very confusing time, 14.

 

[bhaexpress]

As far as it goes children should always be under some measure of control whether it be in a pub or any other public place. As far as it goes some pubs go out of their way to cater for families but they tend to have amusements for children which is fine. I that case the best thing is to use another pub.

In the main though, I agree, pubs are not the place for children.

 

[Les Biehn]

Now, what about a 14 year old who has had 9 too many and one too few?
I would be fine sitting next to her and easing her through the rest of the evening if i have no one better to do. I could show her sodukus and the invisible riddles of newspapers and ask her why there are bogeys on toilet walls and cleaners seem to approach bog floors with terror rather than bleach. Her name is Eve and she has trouble with geography and maths, largely with directions and bus numbers, but has a dabber's hand at home economics with Mrs Dixon on a Tuesday and is better at English lit than her mother wills her to be. She doesn't remember Rude Dawg and the Dweebs, but is better friends with some of the dogs she walks for a tenner each Sunday than she is with teens in the congregation. Very confusing time, 14.

Superb.

 

[rool]

A bit of both. I quite the law over here in Ireland where kids are allowed in pubs until 9pm, maybe it is a little generous and should be reduced to 8pm.

In my opinion this gives the opportunity for parents to have an early evening drink/ meal and get home to allow others not to have to worry about how they behave in the presence of children.

I think the total banning of kids contributes in a way to the whole drinking is big thing and leads to the kind of binge drinking culture not really seen in continental countries where families are more welcome.

 

[pasty]

When my kids were young - good idea.

Now they don't out with us any more - bad idea.

I hope this helps.

My sentiments exactly.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Pubs should be clearly displayed as Child friendly or No children


Job Done - thread closed

 

[Brovion]

It depends, basically I don't mind if it's in designated areas.

Yes, ok, I've got children. In the summer we go to any pub with a garden but in the winter we go the Bugle because they allow kids in the 'Family Room' until 8:30. It's good because we can meet friends with children as well. Having said that I HATE it when other parents let their kids misbehave. Mine sit quietly on pain of death.

Mind you soon I won't have the problem any more and no doubt I'll be firmly in the 'kids out' camp. That's because one of my 'children' is now an adult in her second year at university and the very-nearly-14 year old is about 5ft 9ins and soon will be able to pass for 18.

 

[Cian]

No kids in any pub I drink in, they're welcome everywhere else