It is not the first time that an initiative like this is carried out in a bar or restaurant, but it is still something striking and that is why we talk about it. It happened in a restaurant in Italy, a wine bar in Padua, attended by a group of 10 people made up of five adults and five children.
At the time of taking the account, the owner thought that he should reward them for the behavior that the children had had, so a concept was invented for "well educated children" and they deducted 13 euros from the bill. The same owner of the restaurant, Antonio Ferrari, was the one who shared a photo of the account on his Instagram.
The children were drawing and doing accounts
We do not know the age of the children who were part of that group of 5 children at the table, but apparently they ate normally and then dedicated themselves to draw, paint and do mathematical calculations with some papers and pencils that their parents had brought them.
This caught the attention of the restaurant owner, who thought of personally going to the table to congratulate them. However, he was quick to approach and chose thank you through the account.
Asked about it in the Corriere della Sera, as we read in La Sexta, he explained that "I am aware that being a father is difficult. You cannot always say no and raise with prohibitions, but when you are surrounded by people you should also teach respect."
Should normal be rewarded?
In my house we step on restaurants very little, not because we don't like to eat outside, but because our means are not enough to do it. Now, when we go, we sit down the five, we ask each one what we want and we eat it so happy. If a child gets nervous (now it just happens, because they are 11, 8 and 4 years old respectively), we try entertain them or give them what to play with so they don't bother others -Now that I think about it, we have never given them the phone for this need-, and in case of running out of resources we have chosen to leave the restaurant (although this was when they were so small that they could not even be explained that they should be in relative silence).
But I do not explain it because I consider that we do something out of the ordinary, but precisely to tell you that we do what surely each father and mother does (or what I should do, I think). By this I mean that if one day they brought my account with a discount for good behavior, I would be quite surprised.
I would be surprised because then I would think: "If you reward me for something that is normal and logical, educate the children so that they do not disturb others, what do children who are not rewarded? What do parents of children who do not are they rewarded? Is it usual here for children to be running around the restaurant or throwing food in the air? "
In other words. I would appreciate it, of course, for the detail of the discount, but I would feel sorry to see that someone values as positive or extraordinary that some children do not disturb others. It is as if they make you a discount after queuing to pay at the supermarket for not fighting with those in front.
But children are moved and eat fast
There are those who see the detail of the owner of the restaurant has bothered because children are moved, eat fast (or little), get bored and look for ways to have fun. Well, the reality is that everyone, or most, is like that when they are little. At the most you can entertain them for a few minutes, and immediately they are asking you for new things, so in the end one does not know if he has gone to eat at a restaurant to enjoy the company and the food, or if he has gone to be all the time for your child, eat almost cold food and barely be able to talk to anyone.
Well, they are partly right: it's not bad behavior, it's that young children are like that. Then each father and mother should assess the extent to which it makes sense to eat out. Because if the child is one of those who end up bothering people, what he is saying is that this is not the best place to go (as a rule, restaurants are not places very adapted to children's needs).
Come on, I would rather not go, than go and hang out controlling my son so he doesn't bother, more or less correctly. But that is what I would do, because then there are those who are going to go equally, do what their children do, and even follow the guide so that in the restaurants they look badly at all of us who have children. Those who motivate that then there are people who when they see children with more or less normal behavior, consider rewarding parents in some way.
