Disciplining another person’s child is an extremely controversial topic amongst parents. Some welcome the help since it shows their children that their behavior is unacceptable, yet many others feel that strangers have no place telling their child how to behave.
Since it’s hard to tell which parents will be offended by a stranger disciplining their child, chances are most people won’t do anything if they see a child acting out in public, which is why one cafe owner has come under fire by parents around the world after she disciplined an unruly little kid and threatened to do it to any unruly kids who visits her cafe.
In the viral Facebook post, which has since been deleted, South Kiosk at Martello Park owner Kim Christofi threatened to give parents five minutes to get their kids under control before she would do it for them.
“You’ll get a family arrive and for some reason the child will start screaming, throwing a hysterical tantrum. We hope the parent will step in, but in the latest incident that didn’t happen and the child was really embarrassing herself,” Christofi explained of the latest incident which inspired her new policy.
“The parents left me no option but to have a quiet word. We ask them ‘would they stop screaming, would they like a drink and coloring book?’ I’m specifically talking about really unruly children, destructive behavior – smashing up the toy box, knocking down the chairs,” Christofi said.
“Can we make ourselves perfectly clear to all parents who are too scared to discipline their children about tantrum screaming,” Christofi wrote in the controversial Facebook post. “We will give you five lenient minutes to ask the child to stop screaming and then we will ask the child ourselves.”
“If that means you too having a tantrum about our having to speak to your child and hurling threats about not returning – that’s really okay with us. We have a duty of care to the rest of our customers,” she wrote.
“I would never bring my child with special needs anywhere near here,” one commenter said. “Having a tantrum is part of their development,” another said, “the parents may be ignoring the child for a reason and I strongly suggest you just let them get on with it.”
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