Children in bars

Why do parents feel the need to brings their kids to bars? Dud

don't think i would take my kid to a bar, but how do you feel about breweries

how do you feel about wisconsin

Why do parents feel the need to brings their kids to Wisconsin? Dud

my beloved bk neighborhood has been overrun by the mega rich yuppie douchebag set, and the bar on the corner now has these awful people with their kids running around and bothering people...it's called ENTITLED.

most amazing misread thread title ever

Please go elsewhere with your progeny

my beloved bk neighborhood has been overrun by the mega rich yuppie douchebag set, and the bar on the corner now has these awful people with their kids running around and bothering people...it's called ENTITLED.

― Iago Galdston, Friday, April 11, 2014 8:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so what you're saying is you feel ... entitled ... to a bar with no kids in it

does the bar serve food? i think there are laws out here about bringing underage kids into just straight up bars... maybe i'm making that up, i don't know.

bars don't have kids in them, it's right in the name: BAR

calstars do you have kids? i'm guess you don't?

fwiw i don't have a problem with this depending on circumstances. though i have a kid and i have never done it.

My sister and bro in law bring my eldest niece (four years old) to bars whenever policy permits. Last time she sat on my knees and jabbered while I drank my scotch.

This thread is relevant to my interests. I take my baby to bars all the time. If there's a changing table in the bathroom, it's fair game, IMO.

Why do intolerant tools feel the need to go to bars? Dud

It's pretty easy with Ivy. She's 4.5 months old so she just hangs out in the carrier strapped to one of us while we drinky drink drink (usually sleeping). We go during off hours though, usually a Sunday afternoon to a place we know won't be crowded or annoying.

Are you calling me an intolerant tool? lol

XP we're pretty thoughtful about it. Like I'm not wheeling a double wide stroller into the corner slashie at 11:30 on a Friday so I can throw back shots while my neglected infant screams. It's mostly between 1 and 5 in bars that I know are kid-friendly for a couple of beers then back home.

Or what Jeff said, as we share that particular baby.

I only feed my baby alcohol at home.

kinda disgusting to give kids blends if you can afford single malts imo

glenlivet 18 (weeks)

On a long flight I see no issue with blends

when I see a child in a bar, it reminds me to get absolutely wasted. because I may be so lucky to have a child of my own someday. thanks for the reminder.

I should clarify that I meant lucky in a truly positive and earnest sense there.

i am clumsy when i am drunk and could easily step on a child

how else is my toddler gonna see some quality live music

xp i wouldn't be so cocksure about it. children are swift, elusive creatures.

a lot of them are dumb slow unattended sacks too tho

Is this thread about bars or "gastropubs"?

^^^cutting to the heart of the matter

http://www.bizbash.com/content/editorial/StoryPhoto/big/e16978image4.jpg

how did you get a picture of my basement

Your kid sent me this shot after his selfie of his nursing a Balvenie.

this is what you assholes get for banning smoking in bars

adam, beware of the smarm patrol on this thread. remember. you must LOVE kids and WORSHIP everyone who's a parent...they're so special!

I am fine with babbies in bars and anywhere else UNLESS they are crying, in which case I am gonna be irritated if a parent does not remove said child until such crying ceases.

I make exceptions for moving trains, airplanes.

everywhere that has good reasonably priced food by me is a semi-bar at least, so hell yes we bring our infant to bars. this is not even a thing really in MN to be honest, kids in bars go back to the state incorporation as far as i can tell.

but yeah, not into anything that would be just booze plus a pizza oven or anything, although there are hardly any of those around, and the ones that are are pretty shitty whether you have a kid or not.

Bars that won't let me and my son sit at the bar and watch a ballgame = MASSIVE DUD. Fortunately I do in fact live in Wisconsin, where everybody brings their kid to the bar, so this is seldom a problem.

dont get the food distinction

don't bring yr kids where there is food either imo

I miss the old days when parents with children were locked in their homes at 6 PM and we godless hordes of childless adults could rule the streets, like the bad guys in The Crow.

I miss when the parents were the grownups and didn't insist on parading around their spawn as if they split the fucking atom

Society is in the gutter

my previous statement only refers to yuppified brooklyn. please disregard if you are from anywhere else, i'm sure you are very nice

Those identical twins in the stroller parked under the jukebox split the fucking embryo tbf

pls just never talk about brooklyn

I just got home from taking my baby to a bar.

Did you parade your baby around as if you were Ernest Rutherford?

No, but I breastfed her at the table while drinking a beer.

Sounds more difficult than splitting an atom imo

fusing an atom however

Brutal

phones are good actually

I agree — I’d rather deal with a group where half of them are nose deep in their devices than to have to ask someone “please stop touching our things” that many times. More than once.

I'm a parent and it drives me mad when parents ignore the behaviour of their child like this

3 yo finally starts balling after rearranging the furniture for several hours with reggae blasting and parents drinking and eating fried food

assume you were autocorrected from “bawling” there because otherwise,

Dad sits his 1 yo at tha bar and waves his arm at people when they come in

mom lazily pursues toddler out the front door, grabs her and comes back in, daughter in one hand, highball in the other

a 6 year old moon faced boy orders 3 fingers of fanta, neat

baby girl pulls up a stool. takes a drag of a red vine and opens the local zoo book. "What the fuck are these giraffes up to now?"

(where is her mother!?)

I’m always singing this thread title to the tune of Waysted’s “Women in Chains” in my head

For me it is Paul Westerberg "Man Without Ties"

Children in bars don't dress for dinner
Do the Friday night frozen pizza thing

Ha!

xxp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGgGW1ZalY

I’m always singing this thread title to the tune of Waysted’s “Women in Chains” in my head

I add an adjective so it’s always…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2IIJ2YKGw

https://thehardtimes.net/culture/study-shows-birthrate-decline-linked-to-prevalence-of-other-peoples-children-at-breweries/

otm

https://theonion.com/couple-debates-ethical-implications-of-bringing-another-child-into-this-bar/

Subthread: dogs in bars

Dogs in bars >>>>>> children in bars

Docs are fine bc you can curse around them without remorse.

Oops dogs. Also I love dogs.

Who doesn’t love a good ole big fluffy bar dog??? I love places that offer big water bowels for doggies.

In Osaka I ended up at a dive bar with a Finnish colleague and there was a bar dog who I assume belonged to the owners and he was a big boi who would run up to the door every time people left and stand up so he could look out the window like he was sad that they weren’t staying for another round.

<3 love that

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/dining/breweries-child-friendly-bans.html

“All I could think was: We didn’t build Guantánamo, we built a beer garden,” he said.

https://theonion.com/couple-debates-ethical-implications-of-bringing-another-child-into-this-bar/

Oh, I see it's already posted upthread. Nevertheless!

"i'm guessing you don't have kids" is def one of the most annoying things parents say to non-parents, esp in that superior tone it usually comes in

damn right i don't and there's a reason for that. i don't like them or being around them. i'm not going to be overtly displeased with kids in bars (well, kid-friendly bars, some bars would be just wrong) but i reserve the right to prefer them elsewhere and bitch about it privately afterwards. i don't think "enjoying the company of strangers' kids" should be a general expectation. i don't like the company of obnoxious adults either and pick the places i socialise to avoid them where possible and basically 90% of kids have the same effect.

kids that i actually know are slightly easier to tolerate, i guess.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 April 2014 bookmarkflaglink

This is me with dogs in pubs

These places look so grim. Let's go drive somewhere that we can get out and reposition ourselves onto some picnic tables and woodchips and horse down a few beers before driving back home

"looks like rain. Is that the one with the tarp? we need to keep the water off our skin while we're drinking our beers"

"Yeah"

"oh okay, let's go then"

Children in bars are fine as long as they get a round in.

knew this revive was going to be about this article.

i have never seen kids acting too badly in breweries etc, but then again, i also tend to avoid small breweries because...well, a lot of them make really shitty beer! not all of them, but it's like each brewery makes one or two good beers, and the menu usually has ten options. not a great percentage.

I have more problems with dogs in public spaces. You can control kids more than dogs, and dog owners really get offended or at least hurt when as is my wont I show zero interest in engaging with their pet; in fact, I overact my fear and disgust.

I wonder at these tent-and-picnic table places, can you go inside to relieve yourself of the liquid you've just poured down your gullet, or do they have portapotties?

why wouldnt you be able to go inside?

I don't know, all these pictures show people sitting on woodchips

I mean the guy says he didn't build Guantanamo but he's halfway there

Children
In bars
you can't control em
why they're running away and away

I have more problems with dogs in public spaces. You can control kids more than dogs, and dog owners really get offended or at least hurt when as is my wont I show zero interest in engaging with their pet; in fact, I overact my fear and disgust.

― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

this doesnt make any sense at all

unless

you are talking about unleashed dogs in public apaces, in which case we ahould also refer to children in public spaces who aren't being handled as unleashed also

and

unless

you likewise show your fear and disgust at children to the parents, and the parents don't mind

ie im not telling you to prefer dogs or love dogs but at least make a fair comparison

i find dog owners, generally, a level above parents tbh

Alfred is making sense to me.

When a kid is friendly I think the parent often gets hold of them because they often don't want their kid interacting with strangers.

Which isn't the case for dogs. Though tbh people without them often encourage this by randomly interacting with them. So there's plenty of blame to go round.

As the birth rate declines more people will get dogs and I can see even more of this as the years go by. Can't wait.

This is exactly right.

And, yes, every dog is leashed. It's when they strain to get at me and I make no effort to be friendly that the owners get nonplussed.

btw I like and have owned dogs.

I'm not calling you out re dogs

it's the suggestion that unleashed kids or their owners are any better as a rule

dogs, for a start, tend to be better managed in restaurants and bars

we ahould also refer to children in public spaces who aren't being handled as unleashed also

😂😂😂😂

I agree. I meant to cast aspersions on the owners of dogs that don't behave; in my experience, like I said, they tend to overreact.

fair