Another example of "me, me, me" parenting:

[i-need-a-martini]

Parents get told to move out of cafe after baby screams the house down and get all huffy. This is a good companion piece to the breastfeeding mother one.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/two-flat-whites-and-a-bawling-child-please-20130121-2d2xc.html

[lis351]

there is no way that I would ever approach a parent in any public space (restaurant/pool/shop ) to give my input into their child raising.

Most certainly agree. Nor would I be too happy if someone else did the same to me. I have had my fair share of public tantrums.

[lionrose.7]

I wondered how many of the people making comments in that site had children.

Hitting a crying child will not make them stop.

As for taking a child outside and hosing them down, well that is just child abuse.

I don't like to hear crying children either mainly because I am a mother and I feeling like taking the child and rocking it.

I would take the child out side if it was upsetting others, people have the right to drink there coffee in peace.

[0z_girl]

I would take my children outside as well.  I always found it easier to leave my children at home with someone, or not go out to tea when they were at a difficult age.

everyone is a perfect parent with plenty of advice, as long as its not your child it seems

[daydream**believer]

the manager of the cafe should of spoken to the parents.

They said this happens all the time when that couple come in with their kid so they should have spoken to them by now...not left it up to other customers

[givemeaspell]

reminds me of the parents from "the slap". 

[the_hawk*]

The owner may not have been there to talk the the rude parents and the staff didnt want a complaint made against them.

I may have spoken the the staff first but some people just need to be told bluntly so they get the message.

and yes its a completely different situation to breast feeding as a screaming kids makes life miserable for anyone that can hear them and I certainly don't pay to go out and put up with it

[lakeland27]

god forbid a child disturb someone's coffee and smalltalk. .

[donnashuggy]

It could be worse, they could have lit a cigarette lol

[crystal**flake]

The parents of the noisy child should have left.

[icyfroth]

"children should be seen and not heard"

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