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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