Entitled Parent Interrupts Entire Restaurant By Making Their Baby Laugh Loudly

Look, I'm not a parent. I can't speak to how difficult it truly is to raise a child. I'm not necessarily a source of authority when it comes to parenting advice, but if your child is continuously loud, do everything in your power to stop the noise. If you're actively making your child shriek, understand why the people around you might be irritated. 

Here we have an example of a parent doing the exact opposite of what was just outlined. Reddit user /u/Plane_Ad5416 posed a question in the /r/amithesshole subreddit. They asked, "AITA for making my baby laugh at a restaurant?" While that sounds generally innocuous, the user went on to describe how he continuously tickled the baby resulting in "happy yelling." This went on for at least five minutes when an adjacent table asked for an end to the shrieking. The parent, of course, was offended and refused to quiet his baby. Feeling offended by the result of his lack of courtesy, he decided to ask Reddit to for validation. Here's the full story and what everyone had to say to this entitled parent!

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  • 01
    Font - r/AmltheAsshole u/Plane_Ad5416 • 4h ● AITA for making my baby laugh at a restaurant Join It was my wife's birthday yesterday. She picked out a mid tier restaurant to go to for her birthday. This was no chili's level but not high end either. We went at 5:30 on a Wednesday, so not that busy. We have a 10 month old who's just about the happiest kid ever. Nearly anything I do makes him laugh. Well at dinner I was making him laugh. He'd throw in some happy yelling. Maybe got a touch loud but h
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  • 02
    Font - Well the table next to us had an issue with what I was doing and asked me to stop. They told us to keep it down. I'm like he's laughing thats all. Him laughing is an issue? They just repeat that he is too loud, if he is going to be like this they suggested we stay home. I tell them to leave us alone and continue making my son laugh. I overheard them reference me as an asshole. They requested to move tables and did. But was I the asshole for making my baby laugh? Edit: This was a 3-5 minut
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    Font - _mmiggs_ 4h Craptain [161] ● I'm assuming that "laugh" here is loud, happy, baby shrieking, and by the sounds of it, it was ongoing happy shrieking, and not an isolated laugh. That's too loud for a restaurant. You're dining in a restaurant. You need to moderate your voices - the people at the next table don't want to hear your conversation, and they don't want to be continually disturbed by the happy shrieks of your baby either. YTA You're not the asshole for making your baby happy. You'r
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    Font - 2workigo 4h ● YTA. Because when you were informed you were bothering other people (who were also paying to enjoy a nice dinner) your response was essentially "fuck them." There's something to be said for basic manners. ... Reply 2.2k Defiant_McPiper • 1h This - they asked politely and OP wanted to continue to do it to be spiteful IMO.
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  • 05
    Font - Deep-Manner-4111.4h Partassipant [1] YTA. Let me preface this by saying that there is nothing wrong with your child's joy and you sound like a fantastic parent. BUT in your post you mentioned both laughing and happy yelling. Those are not the same thing. A quiet giggle? Sure, no problem. But yelling? No. Just because it's happy, doesn't take away the fact that it's yelling. Imagine if you were just trying to enjoy a quiet dinner with your family and group of rowdy drunken people kept yell
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    Font - 7hrOwn • 3h Pooperintendant [52] YTA. You deliberately provoked your kiddo into making loud noises in a place where people go to relax and enjoy conversation. There's nothing wrong with your kid laughing, but there's a time and a place for it. If you'd been doing this in a public park, that would be fine, but you were in a mid-tier restaurant, and you continued after people told you it was a problem. If you'd toned it down a notch afte they asked, you would have been fine.
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    Font - YTA. BogBabe 3h Asshole Aficionado [10] ● Well at dinner I was making him laugh. He'd throw in some happy yelling. Maybe got a touch loud I'm like he's laughing thats all. But laughing wasn't "all." He was yelling. Loudly. Loudly enough to be annoying to other diners. And you kept on with it, instead of trying to quiet him down and keep him quietly happy. There's a time and a place for loud happy yelling. A restaurant isn't it.
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  • 08
    Rectangle - derpy-chicken. 3h YTA. Yelling due to happiness or otherwise is not appropriate for ANY restaurant. And you were doing it on purpose, even after someone asked you to knock it off.
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    Font - busyshrew • 3h Asshole Enthusiast [8] YTA. You love your kid and think he's adorable but other people were there to enjoy a meal. You were deliberately attention seeking and probably wanted everyone to notice your wonderful baby, and were willing to give a "fuck you" to other paying patrons when asked to tone it down. How tiresome. Hope you left a really big tip for the extra inconvenience you placed on the staff too - having to move customers to a new table and deal with the complaints.
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    Font - broken-runner-26 • 3h Partassipant [1] YTA. Wanna be loud, go to a playground or maccies
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    Font - Mr_Bell_Man • 3h Partassipant [3] YTA - There's a time & place for everything. I could get if you tried to make the baby laugh if he was already screaming/crying, but you stated in another comment that you made him laugh out of the blue by tickling him. And then when the laughing was annoying the other eaters they asked you to stop. Had you stopped there then things probably would've been ok, but you continued the laughing anyway to just annoy everyone around you.
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  • 12
    Font - YTA. kingneck7611 · 3h Constantly making your child laugh for the sake of laughing in a restaurant is rude. I personally would find it cute. For a bit. My wife and I have had to get our dinners to go because of an inconsolable child. It's just what we deal with as parents. Let's play a game. You're out with your wife for a big anniversary. It's supposed to be a romantic night out with just the two of you. Once at the restaurant a group of 4 people get seated next to you. You find out that
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  • 13
    Font - Solrackai 3h Certified Proctologist [21] ● YTA, there is a difference between a baby crying in a restaurant on its own, and you encouraging your baby to be loud by laughing. Have some curtesy for other people when out in public. This is some entitled BS on your part.
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  • 14
    Font - AvoidinTheSus • 3h YTA. You're one of those people lol ... Logical Lettuce_962 36m Reply 179 I'm trying to imagine OP on a plane and it's making me physically sweaty thinking about being stuck at 10,000 feet with them. ... Vote
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  • 15
    Font - darkswanjewelry • 2h I swear to god, parents lose all sense of how their children and themselves are perceived externally. It doesn't matter whether the baby was screaming cause he's happy or he's sad. No one cares, really. Decibels are decibels. It was a distraction and sensory disturbance to other patrons in the restaurant. It's one thing if you're somewhere you have to be, like in a doctor's waiting room. Dining out is a choice to passively socialize broadly and a certain social contra
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    Font - StatisticianSea2200 • 3h Asshole Aficionado [12] YTA the world doesn't revolve around you and your family. Will you be the parent that ignores their child's screaming out in public as well? Do that crap in your own home not out in public where, believe it or not, other people exist.
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    Font - ww Co AlicelnWeirdoland • 3h ● Colo-rectal Surgeon [31] YTA. Look, I hate the whole 'never take babies in public' thing, because babies need to exist in the world to help socialize them. But the caveat is that when you're somewhere where people expect volume to be modulated and the baby gets too loud (whether that's from laughing or crying, if we're dealing with screaming it's too loud), you have to take the baby outside. You keep saying 'happy yelling' like it's different from 'upset yel
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  • 18
    Font - ashleighbuck • 4h Certified Proctologist [27] INFO: Were you making him laugh to stop him from crying? Or was the laughing (and "happy" yelling) avoidable, excess noise in a public setting? If the alternative is crying, I'll take the laughing & yells lol. If he wasn't crying tho....I don't think I'd love that "happy" yelling
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    Font - InvisibleKinetic Sand . 3h How can you not see that your screaming baby was preventing the other people in the restaurant from having a good time? No one wants to be around a baby that's being loud like yours was. YTA
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    Font - Istilleatgluten. 2h YTA. Self awareness is a thing. To you it's the most beautiful sound in the world. To everyone else it's a shriek that gets louder and louder.
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