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Emma Grimshaw

Family slammed for letting daughter sing whole way through meal at posh restaurant

A family has been slammed for letting their daughter sing Frozen the whole way through a meal out at a posh restaurant.

Posting on Mumsnet, the woman explained she had gone out for a 'celebration lunch' to a venue that was a 'step up from your regular restaurant'.

But her 'expensive meal' was ruined by a group with two young children. She said: "One was a babe in arms who cried - fair enough, babies cry and after a while of not being able to quiet him or her, dad went out and walked around outside.

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"Much appreciated that he did that. However, the other child, a girl of about five or six, was allowed to sing, at the top of her voice for over an hour. The same line over and over, which I finally worked out was 'I don't care' from Let It Go."

She said if it had been her local pub she wouldn't have thought twice.

"I get it is hard to manage kids in public sometimes but you could see people looking from all over the restaurant," she said. "Am I unreasonable to think those parents should have said something to this child and told her to stop?".

Dozens of people replied to her post, with most agreeing they 'hate noisy kids'.

One person wrote: "They shouldn't have taken their kid there if she couldn't be quiet. I have a toddler and I would never take her to somewhere like that. Although I would have thought a 5-year-old would know not to do that."

Someone else said: "When ours were that young, we stuck to family restaurants where there were usually lots of noisy kids. I’d not have taken them to a ‘fancy’ restaurant where people were spending a lot."

Another woman shared a similar experience while travelling on a train with a dad and two kids.

She said: "The train stopped in a tunnel. For 40 minutes. And for the entire time the girls were allowed to practise a long clapping rhyme neither of them could actually finish. The entire time, over and over and over again. I went from thinking 'he'll tell them to quieten down in a minute', through 'how the hell can he just pretend he hasn't noticed' to being fascinated about how long he could keep ignoring them."

What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.

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