Spock is absolutely amazing to take out to tea. We often go out to a coffee shop and have a milk shake and she will sit there and chat away with you and have her drink etc. I do take her to ones with toys, and she will happily play with the toys while we wait for our order.
We go out probably once a fortnight for pizza, and she is fantastic, sits at the table eats, chats, etc... In the last month for so she has been choosing to sit in the 'big girls chair' instead of a high chair, and will still stay seated etc...
I have had compliments from staff about how fantastic she is, and how they would never dream of bringing their child out. I guess because it's just something we always did, eg we never avoided it its just normal for her... Not that we eat out really often due to financial reasons. But restaurants are 30 mins away here, so by time you get take away, being it home it is too cold to eat so we just always eat in
My two dd's are similar to yours beansbeans and tt40.
I think because we always have dinner at the table together at home they have to sit there quietly then, so they seem to do the same when we are out. Dd2 is probably th exist difficult at the moment at 9 months because she is finding her voice so can get quite loud, but she is generally fairly easily distracted. I also find that because we are (were) the only ones with kids out of our friends, when we go out they all want to hold the baby anyways so that helps me
I find loud restaurants the best bet for us then at least dd2 is drowned out and doesn't bother anyone else.
My parents have their 50th wedding anniversary soon and plan to have dinner out with us all including the grandkids.
They go out often with my sons girls who are both at school so can't see why our 3yo might not be great going out at night and then being expected to sit still and behave when he's tired.
That said we eat out often but regularly we go to lunch at kid friendly places not so much out for dinner.
We have been practising and he gets that he has to sit at the table but he's NOISY!!!!
I am not looking forward to this dinner out as my other brother who is not kid oriented at all is choosing the restaurant and my parents seem to forget how 3 yo's can be and keep telling me it'll be fine 'cause "the girls" are great at eating out (yeah they are 4 yrs older too!)
Our DS doesn't really get involved in colouring (prefers to paint) and would want books read to him. We don't really do the iThing thing so we'll just have to cope..............arrggghhh
DS had his first meal out before he was a month old. He slept through it all! I do take him out to cafés and the odd restaurant for a meal, always expected him to sit and chat to me and unless it was a very long wait (ie over 20 mins) as a preschooler, he managed it. He is very active, but he knows what's expected in different situations. We go to child friendly places as well as grown up places and he enjoys the adult environment more now he is that bit older (age 7).
I do keep my phone, the kindle, colours, paper etc in my bag which helps somewhat. Most other adults love that he sits and reads or does maths while waiting for his food.
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