Katharina Buczek
So, the kid started crying, and the child’s mother wound up coming over and telling him off for screaming. The mother claimed her son was just a kid who was playing– as children do.
But, he stood his ground and told the woman that he wouldn’t have had to step in if she controlled her kid and told him to quiet down beforehand.
At that point, a staff member entered the situation, too, and asked what all the commotion was about. So, the woman detailed how he had screamed at her kid, and he admitted to that as well. But he also recalled how he tried to “calmly explain” what pushed him to start yelling in the first place.
The staff member wound up just saying that he and the woman should both let the situation go. Plus, the next time an incident like that happens, the staff will manage it– not other customers.
The woman was still furious about what he did, though, so she ended up leaving. And even though his friends later agreed that they were annoyed, too, and even planned to complain to the restaurant staff, he did really yell at the child.
So, in hindsight, he realizes that he could have just approached the restaurant management and asked for their help.
And now, he’s been left wondering whether screaming at the kid and making him cry in the restaurant was the wrong way to handle the situation.
Can you understand why he got frustrated by the kid’s behavior? At the same time, was it okay for him to scream and threaten to leave the child outside alone? Wouldn’t it have been much better for him to just complain to the restaurant staff instead of pushing the kid to tears? How would you have handled this situation?
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