You, RFN, 2011....

[Sundae]

Bless.
I am a big advocate of taking young children out with you, as long as you are also teaching them social skills.

My niece & nephew didn't eat out in a real restaurant as children, only kids' restaurants.
Consequently they don't know how to behave in them.

Okay, they are too old to run around and yell, but they don't know how to catch the eye of waiting staff*, order for themselves or stay off their text messages for more than 20 seconds, even while eating.

*I'm not talking Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons, I mean in places like Pizza Express or the local Indian. I was working in Deep Pan Pizza at 14! By 19 I was a silver service waitress.

At 17 I was young, conceited, self centred, mouthy - but I could eat out with people older than me and not be a pain in the arse. Oh, apart from being conceited, mouthy etc..

Hope the GD had a great time.
And GM wasn't too exhausted!