Bars: kid friendly or adults only?

It seems like more people are bent out of shape over swearing and cussing than having children around.

Brewery/tasting room area? Eh, probably would be fine. Can't say I'd be crazy about it though. For the most part, I'd want to leave my kids out of going to bars and I'd want to avoid other people's kids as well. I'm a new parent, so that might change in the future, but for now, no, your kid isn't cute. My little infants aren't that cute either. I have no desire to sit next to a kid that is farting baby food/formula farts, and decides to start crying right before projectile puking onto your neighbor. Now, they could be behaved for a minute. They could be well behaved for almost the whole time you are there. But no one owes you or your kid shit. Booze and kids can mix fine, if everything is taken in moderation. I have 0 confidence that the liability/reward scale of assuming everyone will be taking everything in moderation and behaving moderately warrants making it gospel kids are allowed into wherever they want.

It is entirely, 100% up to the owner of the establishment if they like kids or have a business model to tolerate them. If you want them to experience beer/alcohol as normal, you don't have to take them to bars. There are plenty of other avenues for that. Have a cookout. Have a tasting at your place. There's room enough for both in the world without having to try to appease everyone. And if you have your kids, but ZOMG PROP BCBCS with angel tears is only on tap in the adults only bar? Tough shit. Try again in 18 years.

 

No, leave your kids at home because I'm not going to put up with other people's kids if they're screaming or running around the place because the parents can't be bothered to look up from their phones or discipline their children in any way. I've had a couple of instances where I yelled at kids who were running around a restaurant and told them to sit down and shut the fuck up, or I was going to discipline them in place of their parents. Needless to say the parents weren't real happy with me because I berated them for not knowing how to discipline their kids or teaching them proper manners when out in public, but they kept their kids in line for the rest of the time they were there eating and I got to enjoy my dinner.

Luckily though I don't have to put up kids at the bar when I go out because at my usual place the 1st floor is 21 and older because it's just the bar and some stools and the 3rd floor another bar and some tables, but it's also the smoking section. Also, the other places I go to on a semi-regular basis have signs on the door that say if you're not old enough to drink, you aren't allowed on the premises.

 

Who knew Adrian Peterson was a BA!

 

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I hope it's an open carry spot. Kids these days!

 

I guess CO must be super strict, because ain't no one stepping past the bouncer who ain't got ID round 'mnah. I've never seen a single kid in any true bar in the state.

 

Depends on the bar and time of the day.

 

I have to agree. I will state for the record that I don't and won't have children however, so I will admit that I am a bit biased. I do however think that if a pub / bar has a large outdoor beer garden it may not be too bad as the kids can run around and play, but to take them to an indoor bar seems the wrong environment for children, and moreover would be boring them to tears.

Adults only.

 

Thanks man, I like it. I'll have to remember that one next time my 7 nieces and nephews are around trashing the joint.

 

Are we considering time and actual place? And age of kids?
Because if it's a honky tonk bar or danceclub then of course not...if it's a local brewery with taproom or just a relaxed beer bar in the afternoon then I have no problem with it.
Case in point, there is a local bar that I like to enjoy a beer at while shooting pool with my teenage stepson on Saturdays during lunch (it helps that there are only about five people in the place around lunch time on Saturday).
That being said, I realize one thing that other parents unfortunately do not - if you take your kid in an adult environment, so to speak, don't be surprised, shocked or angered if adults partake in adult activities.

 

My number one complaint about kids, which is not so much their fault but the ignorant parents that don't give a shit about having respect for others and can't be bothered with controlling their children in public. I used to feel pretty anti-kid regardless of the bar/brewery, but have come around after seeing kids at my usual brewery stops and realizing it's no big deal when they're sitting with their parents being well-behaved. It's the parents that basically just unleash their kids to run around all over the place completely undisciplined that grind my gears. Went to a brewery over the weekend where two young boys were running back and forth between the two rooms dribbling a freakin basketball, almost causing my Dad to spill his beer at one point; my old man finally said something to their parents, more in jest, about "back in his day getting a babysitter so he could really enjoy his time out" and the father took offense to it rather than curtailing his kids from running around like lunatics. Course when he saw me step along side my Dad and give him the stare of death he quickly changed his tune.

As others have already stated, it's really more a matter of parenting than the kids themselves.

 

You're quite welcome. There's a smart phone app with more of his quotes.

 

By the by, just noticed your name. Love it! Not many people know of The Big Store any longer.

 

Well, tbh, by saying "bouncer" you've removed the establishment from the types of bars I have seen or would take kids to and/or changed the relevant hours such that people wouldn't have kids with them anyway where the situation may have been different a few hours before. I'm honestly not sure the last time I had to go through a bouncer to enter a place but it is at least several years ago.

 

This is a great example. There is a pool hall in my area that is definitely an adult bar after 8pm or so, but if you go between 11am and dinner time there's nothing exclusively adult about it and the food is pretty decent. I've definitely taken my kids there to teach them pool and have seen a lot of other people do the same thing.

 

Very true. It seems like 99% of people that have had kids in the last 7-8 years that I encounter want absolutely nothing to do with paying attention to their kids, and instead expect the village to take care of the kids, since they are so preoccupied with checking twitter or facebook every 30 seconds.

 

A genuine pub/bar? Def no kids unless they have a separate daycare facility attached. Lmao

 

If you must know, I screwed it up. The movie name was Otis B. Driftwood. And the Big Store isn't one of their best. And to keep this beercentric, I'm thinking about beer right now.

 

I'm enjoying a beer right now, just like I enjoy A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races. Sorry, it was the best link I could find think of while enjoying a beer...

 

There are real bars that are clean, friendly places that people gather and drink. (these types of bars will cut off patrons approaching blackout drunk) I get that these places aren't everywhere, but they aren't uncommon.