[Drinking] Parenting in pubs

[Razzoo]

I'm pretty sure I read that if you are in Wetherspoons and in charge of a child or children they will only serve you two alcoholic drinks max. Commendable if true.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Luckily there are none in the Brighton and Hove area, because we are a proper footballing city. So I'm told

No you're not.

You were told we have proper footballing areas in the County. You do know there are Liverpool fans living in Manchester and Chelsea fans in pubs in Millwall / Palace land?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

No you're not.

You were told we have proper footballing areas in the County. You do know there are Liverpool fans living in Manchester and Chelsea fans in pubs in Millwall / Palace land?

You're right. On average, though.....there are far more ManU 'fans' in the City of Brighton and Hove and surrounding areas than there are Brighton (or Liverpool or Chelsea) fans in Trafford Park, Stretford or Salford.

 

[Easy 10]

Unwritten rule down the pub is 3 pints Max - 2 as a general rule - if you've got kids and be out of dodge before 7pm. If the kids are a pain in the arse, it's time to leave.

Anyone that let's their kid play on a tablet or whatever with the volume on full is fair game for execution.

On the flip side, anyone going to Pizza Express on a Saturday at 17.00 and complains about the number of kids in said restaurant is as thick as the parents in the opening post.

Their kids were immaculately behaved, albeit clearly desperate to get out of there. Its the yobbo parents who were the problem.

 

[The Clamp]

I very much take the McCaan approach to taking kids to pubs.

 

[The Clamp]

I'm pretty sure I read that if you are in Wetherspoons and in charge of a child or children they will only serve you two alcoholic drinks max. Commendable if true.

I think their rule is if you are a child they’ll only serve you two alcoholic drinks.

 

[nwgull]

Can’t stand young kids in pubs. It’s boring for them and as a result they usually end up end spoiling the adult environment for everyone else with apparent obliviousness from their parents.

 

[BN41Albion]

It is an expression introduced to me by a friend 30 odd years ago, when I remarked on the completely different way the locals treated children in Vancouver compared with what I'd left behind in London. Never smacking them. Always explaining. It was brought home to me when I came back home in 86, watching mothers screaming at their kids and slapping them in supermarkets while nobody batted an eye; one monther dangling her toddler on his reigns and kicking him (in a desultory fashion, not hard) on the street. Things have improved hugely here in 30 years, but we Brits were always about 'seen and not heard'. That is not the doctrine of a child loving society. That's how kids get taken down the pub and ignored while the parents get pissed, and nobody says anything.

Well I can't comment on that far back as I was only a kid myself (don't remember my childhood nor my mates' being traumatic in that sense!), but that sounds great in Canada - certainly seem to have been ahead of the game in terms of treatment of kids.

Personally having lived in the far East and south America I never once thought perhaps at home we're not a child loving society. The opposite in the far East; where I lived children from a young age are often pushed to within an inch of sanity (or to depression etc) in terms of pressure with education etc just to uphold family respect, and children with learning disabilities hidden away as almost bringing shame on the family, for example.

 

[Sirnormangall]

I am not against family pubs with sport but this is the reason I do not go in them.
So, is it time to bring back the geezers pub?
Good selection of drinks.
Sport.
Strippers.
Roast potatoes on the bar.
Pickled eggs to pop in your bag of cheese and onion.
Topless barmaids.
Proper, covered/heated smoking area.
Ladies are allowed of course (if they don't mind looking at clunge)
NO KIDS (obviously)
Why can't a bloke have a man cave after a hard weeks graft.

I see I’m the first ( bravest) to give your post a thumbs up - admittedly having first looked over my shoulder to ensure Lady Gall wasn’t checking. I doubt that I will be given permission to attend such an establishment so I’ll have to rely on the rest of you to tell me what it’s like, though I still have fond memories of the Ship in Lewes Road.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Their kids were immaculately behaved, albeit clearly desperate to get out of there. Its the yobbo parents who were the problem.

That's where the 3 pints max rule comes in, in my dictatorship that I have been sadly unable to enforce. Kids get bored in pubs. Anything over an hour and it's unfair on them. When my kids were that age, once they were bored shitless of the colouring in, it was time to do one.Sadly,taking your kids down the battle cruiser all afternoon for a bender watching the cup final with school the next day for at least one of them, would suggest it's all about them rather than the kids.

 

[smudge]

Only ever take my nipper if it's for a meal, then only after checking with the staff if it's ok.
We're lucky he's very well behaved. If he was a problem, we wouldn't do it.

 

[Baker lite]

And the Mum as the possessor of a Wizard's Sleeve par excellence.

Probably had a draw string fitted as the last nipper fell out during a sneezing fit. The old man definitely did not know what he voted for!

 

[Garage_Doors]

England has never been a 'child loving' society. When I lived in Canada if that had happened the police would have been called. Not least because you have to be 21 to get into a pub there.

Incidentally, why did nobody call the police? I think it is because we tolerate chavs too easily in this country.

Do you honestly believe that the police would have attended?

 

[theboybilly]

The last place I'd want to watch a match is a pub. A pub that serves food as well settles it for me. I'm off to a micropub and conversation over a decent beer.

 

[dazzer6666]

Wouldn’t happen in a craft beer bar.

Course not…anyone in there would have kids that are in their 30s

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Stick the kids in the back of the car, bung them a Coca-Cola and a packet of crisps/Mars Bar, have a couple of pints, drive home. Well, it never did me any harm.

 

[The Fits]

As a landlord I can say this without hesitation- pubs are no place for kids.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Do you honestly believe that the police would have attended?

Not a chance.

 

[MTSeagulls]

Stick the kids in the back of the car, bung them a Coca-Cola and a packet of crisps/Mars Bar, have a couple of pints, drive home. Well, it never did me any harm.

In the back of the car? I had to sit on the doorstep of the pub and be brought out coke and crisps occasionally.
The Royal George (I think, opposite Holmbush now) in Shoreham, early 1970s.

 

[Boys 9d]

In the back of the car? I had to sit on the doorstep of the pub and be brought out coke and crisps occasionally.
The Royal George (I think, opposite Holmbush now) in Shoreham, early 1970s.

In the era of my childhood (iate 40s early 50s) very few people had cars and coca cola hadn't found its way to pubs. Under 14s were banned from entering so it was sit outside with a glass of lemonade and a packet of crisps. Standards have gone down since then.