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Message: [QUOTE="HobokenHusky, post: 3157458, member: 2340"] I have two, and they have been going to restaurants once or twice a month for their entire lives, so it's just something they expect to do now and they have learned to enjoy it. They get bread and butter, their coloring book, and watch everything that is going on around them. Do they have a bad night sometimes? sure. The phone is literally the last resort if nothing else is an option and we are almost ready to get out of there. The worst now, though, is going out with other families that will literally hand over their phones to their kid the second they sit down, and the kids are zombies the entire dinner. Again, that is what those kids expect when they go out to eat. It then puts us in a difficult position where our kid, who wouldn't even think of the phone otherwise, starts asking for it. As a general rule, I think of the phone as a powerful drug that should only be used in emergencies. [/QUOTE]