I totally understand what you are talking about!!

Andrew and I were at this very nice Japanese place one night and the people sitting behind us had the most abnoxious kids! The kid was flinging food all over the place and got rice in my hair. Their mother laughed and thought it was so cute!!! Everyone in the restaurant was giving them dirty looks.

When I was growing up, my parents never took us out for dinner. They hired a sitter when they went out. When we were old enough (probably 7 or so) to behave and not make a public nuisance of ourselves, then we were invited along.