Crackdown on screaming children by Dee Why Grand shopping centre

[azureline**]

NOISY children have been banned from a Sydney shopping centre in a move that one parenting expert says reflects society's growing intolerance.

The Dee Why Grand on Sydney's northern beaches, which claims to cater for young families, has introduced its new policy following complaints about out-of-control children.

The notice from centre management reads: "Stop. Parents please be considerate of other customers using the food court. Screaming children will not be tolerated in the centre."

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/crackdown-on-screaming-children-by-dee-why-grand-shopping...

I wonder how far this will be taken? or is it not going to be enforced and the sign is just an attempt at placating shoppers?

[*mrgrizz*]

yes... but none of us behaved badly in public......

oh i see:-D

now not knowing your age were shopping centres prevalent when you were a child or when you were raising your children?

correct me if i'm wrong didn't they first start appearing in the 70's?

so now days a shopping centre is brightly lit and is designed to arouse our sences.

what do you think the kids are going to do?

[azureline**]

:8} no shopping centres when I was a child...

However, mine were raised in Canberra in the 70's and 80's, so yes, all shopping centres.

Mine were extremely well behaved in public, I took all of them shopping weekly, no choice as they were not left with anyone else.

However, it is ludicrous to expect children to do nothing for hours at a time when out..... some parents don't prepare for it, they don't involve the children in what is going on and wonder why they get bored/are naughty.

On the other hand, some just don't care.

[2106greencat]

oh i see:-D

now not knowing your age were shopping centres prevalent when you were a child or when you were raising your children?

correct me if i'm wrong didn't they first start appearing in the 70's?

so now days a shopping centre is brightly lit and is designed to arouse our sences.

what do you think the kids are going to do?

My kids behaved themselves - if they didn't they went back home with me, and that was that. Not hard to raise a child with manners, it just takes a bit more effort than a lot of busy parents these days can manage perhaps.

Yeh, I'm waiting for it - getting ready to duck >>>>

[vampire-teddy]

an elderly lady I know was knocked down in the supermarket by kids racing up and down the aisles.  they were about 10-12.  their mother was with them.  no apology, nothing.  she broke her elbow and her arm will never be the same again.  she cannot garden or do many of the things she could previously.  babies cry, no big deal, little ones scream occasionally, no big deal.  but children who can't walk alongside their parents and run amok are both a nuisance and dangerous.  if the children are uncontrollable the they should be left at home.  there are too many parents who don't care what their kids do and let them run wild.  it isn't hard to teach a child how to behave properly in public.

[vampire-teddy]

it also drives be nut when kids play up in restaurants and run around tables.  it is not hard to teach table manner either.

[icyfroth]

Actually, I don't see a huge amount of misbehaved kids either, but just recently I saw a little boy around 4yo, raching his little sister who was still unsteady on her feet up and down the supermarket aisle, bumping into people, knocking stuff of shelves, the little girl screeching and nearly falling over several times, both had gone hyper. The parents were lost in their shopping, pretending to be oblivious. The young mum did tell them to stop a cpl of times but they took no notice and the mum took no further action.

In situations like this it's appropriate for the care-giver to intervene. They could have picked up the little girl and put her in the trolley to take the heat out of the race. 

'CourseShe probably would've screamed her head off then,  lol

[happyroo_bunji]

When you've had to put up with a child emitting an ear piercing scream off and on while 'mummy' does the shopping for 15mins, then come back to me and say you don't have a problem?

Babies crying isn't a problem for me, I understand babies cry.  But a toddler screaming or chucking a tanty because they want a lolly or are bored, really irritate me.

[crystal**flake]

I think its about time that parents were told to control their kids!

[darksideofthemoon]

Screaming children in shopping centres are the dead end... I hate it.  They hit high notes that hurt and I see no reason why I should put up with out of control children.

In the days when I had children it was never an option... we kept them quiet and if not we took them outside and waited until we could calm them down to make it clear their behaviour was not acceptable.

Frankly so many children nowadays are not attractive.. their parents have no idea of how to control them and for that reason I really do hate the out of control ones.

[*mrgrizz*]

i got no kids so don't blame me

these are kids being raised by your kids.........thats right your grandchildren:^O

but of course yours are all perfect