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?

[daydream**believer]

i just mentioned this to a friend of mine who lives in Dee Why.

She says its all over the local news there.

She says its a fairly new, smallish shopping centre.

She also said

"It has a small climbing frame/play equipment for the kids which obviously encourages mums with young kids to use. The only screaming kids I have seen are having fun, not throwing tantrums!"

[daydream**believer]

Ok, i'll admit i go to a westfield food court at least twice a week and i have never had an issue with kids running amok and running around the table

[lurker17260]

Ok, i'll admit i go to a westfield food court at least twice a week and i have never had an issue with kids running amok and running around the table

That's because they know you'd swear at them if they did 😛

[azureline**]

I went to a shopping centre on Boxing Day... that was the worst experience I have ever had regarding children screaming and running around..... I left and went home thinking "why today? do I just not notice other days? ":O but no, yesterday was just normal, no screaming, no feral children or adults....

[azureline**]

That's because they know you'd swear at them if they did 😛

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[2106greencat]

Now Now children - settle 😛

[daydream**believer]

That's because they know you'd swear at them if they did 😛

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[freakiness]

I think its more a case of more parents failing to control their kids when in public and expecting others to put up with them running a muck . 

Oh please. The sign has been stuck on a children's play area.

Making a noise while playing on playground equipment is not running amok.

If you want silence go somewhere else for coffee, not next to a playground.

[cherry*135]

School holidays are worse than other times as well.

I think the Centre Manager for the mall in the OP would know more what goes on in that mall, than anyone that only eats at the food court once or twice a week or rarely. Obviously other patrons and staff have complained enough about it for her to take some action.

Also she says she hears childrens tantrum screams in her office (located some distance from the food court) and at the other end of the mall... I think she knows what she is doing.;-)

Any parents who eat there, with well behaved children won't be put off by the sign as it doesn't apply to them.

[cherry*135]

Mall Manager:

"Children don't have to be silent. We've got music playing, it's a shopping centre, and we expect children to play and we expect children to be noisy," Ms Mulcahy said.

"But I'm not talking play noise [that is causing complaints]. I'm talking screaming, decibel noise."

She said in one incident on Tuesday, a woman was ignoring her child who was throwing a tantrum in the play centre, which is located near the food court.

"I'm not talking mildly noisy, I'm talking a screaming tantrum, and she was ignoring him. I heard it from the other end of the shopping centre," she said.