LOL, awesome! I had no idea Honey Boo Boo's mother was in town.

So would the parent be a failure or the children? Also because a child is hyper active does not mean they are a failure.

This is the society that we have become:
I have no yard, so it is my right to let my kids play in yours. This actually happened to me while I was riding my mower this fall! The numbskull parents did not even seem to mind their kids could become mulch on my lawn.
My child was eating out since six weeks old, brats like mentioned in the article were used as a learning experience for my child.
People who live in apartments near me feel entitled to allow their pet to relieve themselves on my lawn. When I speak out to them, they say where else can he go?
People stop at a rummage sale and empty the car's trash in the gutter as if we should be the servants and clean up after them.
Yes, this is the entitlement society. No wonder we have more people on Obamabucks than ever!

This "open letter" reads like it was written by a middle school girl. Yes, we've all encountered unruly and obnoxious children in public, and it's never pleasant. But to call it a brood of failure? That's excessive and unnecessary. When you get back down from your soap box, try to remember a time in which you or your children were a bit too rowdy in public, because guess what? Every single person has been like that at one point in their life. Also, to attack the mother and accuse her of "having the nerve" to have these children is incredibly disrespectful - more so than the children were being. All you are is a grown-up version of these crying and obnoxious children, and I highly recommend you get over yourself. If you don't want to deal with other people or run the risk of encountering things like this, then please, stay at home. We could use fewer stuck-up and arrogant people out in public, anyway.

Also, to the commenter above, thanks for turning this rant into a terribly constructed political jab about "entitlement," of which this letter had nothing to do with. You're a typical whining conservative who can't deal with the fact that you have to share your world with other people. How dare people who live in apartments not bow at your feet!

The point of the letter isn't the wording she used, but the lack of respect of this family. Public places are not there for everyone to just run loose and do whatever they want. This family is the perfect example of those that sue for no reason - if anything were to happen to those kids while they were there, the restaurant would have been to blame.
Which then would end in a lawsuit and money to a family that doesn't deserve it.
I don't believe she meant that they were actual 'failures' but that the parents of these children have failed to even ATTEMPT to mold them into decent people.
We grew up in a different time and all we can do is do our best to teach respect and good values. Some people you can't change.

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME. Nuitari approves this public beat down on idiots. Modern parents need to wise up with their little monsters before they turn into whores and serial killers. They are breeding too much an entitled society as it is. Lay down some laws instead of being your child's friend.

Ha Ha - This woman and anyone who sided with her doesn't have children. OR(!!!) they only had 1 spoiled rotten kid with no siblings. You're all living in a fantasy world, and you're the ones who should stay at home. You are SO unrealistic if you think my failure of a self and my failure kids aren't going to ruin your night. You want nice??? DON'T GO TO NOODLES FOR GOD'S SAKE!!! And oh by the way, stay away from Mickey Ds you big spenders. Holy crud!!! Do you know how many times when some elderly folks are speaking WAY too loud about subjects that make we want to vomit up my food or teenagers are dropping f-bombs while I have my kids sitting somewhere? Seriously - have some kids. I used to get pissed about kids until I had some. Now I can eat a peaceful meal in any restaurant with a kid who's screaming b/c "I know". If you and your husband do actually have kids, then either it's been so long ago that you've forgotten or they're scarred for life from their childoods b/c you didn't allow them to be kids.

I have kids and yes they can indeed get out of hand in a public place. But I never let them get away with it. Its one thing to have a crying baby that you really have no control over, but when kids are running around and pushing and shoving, that can be stopped. We went to a pub type restaurant this summer and there was a family with children there that was beating on the tables like they were drumming. My husband said to the waitress "please have them stop or we are going to leave." She or a manager asked them to stop. This is what I think is the best way to handle it as it doesn't create a fight between families and lets the restaurant manager become aware of a situation that may have good paying customers (and probably not just one family) leave because of it. Would they rather make one family angry and not return or the entire restaurant full?

I think it's funny that just a week or so ago, we as a nation couldn't love children enough. Now we can't stand them for being themselves in a Noodles (of all places). People have very little capacity to know what is important in life. As a person who's served in Desert Storm, Haiti, and Iraq twice, I have this to say: Love what little time you have with children. If you are getting so bent out of shape with what kids are doing in restaurants, then leave. Plain and simple - leave. YOU and you alone are letting yourself get angry with what's going on. In the big picture of life, this matters so little that I personally think it's funny and not upsetting.

Funny how I, Craig, and Jonathan are conservatives going at each other.

I think I'm that mom, we live right by there!  How flattering!  I'm totally letting my kids go wild next time I'm there!!!  Gosh, and I would love to go to Chuck E Cheez every night, problem is its a half hour drive to the nearest one, so not very feasible!  Im that mom who uses Target and the ilk of department stores in lieu of playgrounds in the winter.  Question about this story, Cheri Bronk, How do you know they didn't get off from the highway on a busy travel weekend letting off steam?  I was exhausted traveling with kids this weekend!  Well, whatever, sometimes I know what you mean.  I would like to write an open letter to the 8-month pregnant lady who body presses more weight than me at the gym, but hey, it's really none of my business if she's giving birth to Tarzan, I mean no ones perfect, right?

It is a bad reflection on a parent when they don't respect others around them and think that everyone should be cool with what their kids do. It always annoys me in church when parents let their kids yell, runaround, cry, instead of removing them, especially when there are crying rooms or other methods of not disturbing others.

Last year in a band concert this mom, dad and their daughter talked through the whole performance until their kid started to perform. Then they scolded a another couple two tables away for talking while their son was performing. This is exactly the same as letting your kids run wild in an adult restaurant and being offended that someone called you on it. There are way too many people who are too into themselves that they shouldn't be bringing others into the world for us to look after.

I'm the one who submitted this article and to clear things up for some of the narrow-minded folks above, let me give you a little background. My post comes from someone who was raised in the area and as a child I would have never ever been allowed to act like these children were acting in public. My parents would have brought me out to the car, spanked me and then took me home, which is what I agree they should do if I were acting out of line and hitting/kicking my siblings. What I hated about the whole situation over at noodles was the fact that these children were hitting/kicking and acting out and the parents just stood there, dead-eyed and didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with this behavior. Like I said in the article, the place was very busy and servers were having enough trouble bringing out their large trays of food... throw a kid in the mix that's running in front of them acting out, well then you got a larger disaster waiting to happen. I don't have a problem with children, I have a problem with children that act out and the parents that don't care because they are walking around like zombies or too busy playing with their iPhones.

And thank you Craig for bringing your idiotic insults to the comments area. To clarify for you, I pay 100% of the rent and have never needed help doing so. I'm betting I probably make way more than you as well. You're beneath me and always will be.

I had this very same experience in a hospital emergency room last week of ALLl places. The mother just sat there while her children ran wild. When a patient who was ill and waiting to be seen asked her if she could please control her children she screamed and said "they are 4, 2, and 1 and taking ADHD medication ... what do you want me to do". The patient calmly responded "take them home and give them some more medication". It was very serious and intense but looking back on it I have to say it was also hilarious. You had to be there.

Plain and simple, children learn discipline from their parents and if you never give it to your child, they will run amok, and your inability to corral them will be obvious by how they act in public places like the ER or Noodles and Company. (Said by a mother of three whose children were disciplined during their upbringing and can see the fruits of her labor in the behaviors of her grandchildren.)