It’s Taiwan, at least they don’t eat the puppies.
What other interests does he have- then can you join him? Even if he loves first person shooters, would he enjoy paintball or laser tag? Kids do pick up when their parents think their interests are worthless.
“You got mommy it trouble, you little shit! Just wait til I get you home.”
Really? I’ve always liked kids so I can’t relate.
I used to love going out with my nephew and niece when they were at that age. I was the cool uncle that had “uncle rules.”
I don’t have telepathy, so I can’t read minds, but I also teach that age of kids and it’s the same reaction.
Even if it were so, it’s pretty damn rude to the kid to take him to Mac, sit on your phone and force him to sit there with nothing to do.
This child will grow up to be a perfectly normal adult, most other children are being raised, at best, pretty much the same, and that uniformity (as is the case now and in the past) will be held to be the benchmark of normalcy among his peers. He will be perfectly placed to compete among those reared just like him.
Stop worrying about him, at least, he appears to have learned to accept things the way they are.
German restaurants don’t like people bringing kids in. Dogs are fine, however.
I’ve been on my phone while having my kids at a restaurant, probably even McDonald’s(Mac, I guess we’re calling it). Still, my kids get my attention.
However, if I had had a really long day, non-stop talking kids and so forth, I can see telling them I need a few minutes and they can play/eat while I do stuff.
At home, I have the kids take breaks/rests and use it to chill out. However, they are getting ample attention from me and my wife. I doubt either kid would describe us as absent-while-present parents.
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Probably better than most. He’s obviously been trained how to behave in a restaurant, which most children these days never seem to learn.
possibly acquired so the boy had something to love and interact with.
My guess is that the parents were so involved with their phones that they misunderstood their child’s request for a hot dog.
A major cause of children misbehaving in restaurants is because their parents stay way too long after the meal is over, gabbing or being engrossed in their cellphones and ignoring the kids. End result - the kids are bored and act out or run around the restaurant while Mommy and Daddy are staring at the little screen.
“How come you don’t like children?”
No. This was different, hence the OP. Were it normal behavior I wouldn’t have written this.
Giving up looking for affection is so underrated these days.
We all take breaks away from out kids. But I wouldn’t have my child sit there for 30 minutes staring at the back of my phone with nothing to do. Bring along a book or something.
Usually there are the two of them so they can keep either other entertained, but if it were the two of us, with just one of them, then we would have one person engage the child while the other takes a break.
They reportedly do in some other Asian countries, so I wanted to make that clear. 
That’s what I thought. When we were in Germany and Italy people brought their dogs into restaurants - dog would curl up under the table with a bowl of water - it was awesome. I wonder if it’s like that in Taiwan too.
(Meanwhile, here in Canada a few years ago my beagle and I got kicked out of a sketchy bar’s outdoor patio.)
Not usually. First time to see a god in McDonald’s here.
God usually eats at Steak ‘n’ Shake.
This is why you should always remind your kids not to forget their phone when you go out.
Ha! It’s YHWH so when the service is bad, watch out!
Saw a woman take her shoe off to beat her kid with it once.
Also, at work, saw a woman grab her kid by the arm and scream “SHUT UP YOU LITTLE MOTHERFUCKER” at him. That’ll bring you up short.
Well, if she only beat him once . . . 
When I was in college, I got into a screaming match at the laundromat with a woman who had two young children with her, and looked like the then-recently arrested Aileen Wuornos, only uglier. She constantly told the kids how stupid they were, that she hated them, that she wished she had aborted them, etc. and I said, “Wow, if you talk that way to your kids in public, what do you say to them at home?”
There are numerous memes on Facebook that basically advocate torturing children into submission (“They must be beaten regularly to make them respectful to adults!”, that kind of thing) and an elderly woman at my church unfriended and blocked me after about the 10th time I commented on it. The coup de grace was when I said, “Do you also think husbands should do this to wives?” (Incredibly, some women do.)
I used to work at a hospital that had a pediatric psych unit, and it was sickening the way some of those parents talked to their kids - in front of the nurses! :eek: