Hi Jane2 and thank you for the response. I guess kids in cafe's is a subjective thing. Some people like it, some people dont and some people dont give it a second thought.

I guess my beef is with those parents who just dont seem to care what their children do in public. Yes children are children and get up to all sorts of things but what parent doesn't clean up after their kids who start to throw food around. What parent doesn't try to stop their kids throwing things around?

I remember when my two were much younger and they enjoyed throwing food, bottles, toys, bibs etc on the floor whilst looking at you. As part of a kids upbringing it is part of their "test the boundaries" stage of development. If your kid/s did that in a cafe, surely you would clear it up as a responsible person. But there are a good few parents who dont. There are a good few parents who will park the mega sized buggy by the front door and go in for a coffee leaving an obstacle course for those who now want to enter or leave. Why do that, can they not see the buggy is in the way or do they just not care? The parents who congregate with their buggies in the entrance to shops and supermarkets and then look really annoyed when you ask them to move so you can get in or out.

Why do some parents happily let their kids run around the cafe whilst they check out their phones/lap tops? I am all for a little kid saying hello whilst having a coffee but dont enjoy being shouted at by the same kid who is intent on putting their cake/chocolate/jammy etc hands all over me. However it's a kid, they do that. What gets my goat is that the parents sit there, see their little angel doing it and just carry on without a care in the world.

All I ask is for people to think about others.

P. S My think about other people views also extend to those people who sit on an aisle seat on the train during the rush hour and then look really annoyed that you have asked to sit down and then huff and puff as they move their bag off the seat next to them. Grrrr