I can guarantee you that the each one of you who posted a negative attitude about NOT taking your child out to eat has NO children of their own.

When you have a child (if you do), I guarantee that you change your ways of thinking. Just because you have children does NOT mean you are automatically home bound until the child grows up. That's ludicrous thinking. I agree 100% about movies, but as far as restaurants, that's a different story. Now with any four of mine, when he/she started acting up and would not calm down after a minute or so, I or my wife would take the child somewhere to calm him/her down. I wouldn't and can't stand for a child to just be left to cry until he/she is done crying.

But there is no reason at all that parents with younger children can not go to a nice restaurant with their children. I understand you voicing your opinion about liking it or not, but you have no voice when it comes to what a parent should or should not do unless you've lived on the other side of the fence.

For the record, neither of my four were really that bad in our dining out experiences. Later, QD.