Parenting children is not fun. Sitting in a restaurant, trying to have an adult conversation and pretending those are someone else’s children is more fun. I was recently in a restaurant where two women with small children were at a table gabbing away, and a little one that looked to be 3 years old followed a man out the door. He ignored her, got in his car and drove away. The mother realized the child was missing, and berated the hostess for not stopping the child from going out the door! Normally the mom in me would intervene; I was keeping an eye on the child from my seat, and wanted to see what the mother would do. Children generally misbehave when they are in either an inappropriate or overstimulating environment, or when the wait is too long and there aren’t enough distractions.