Updated below: Canadians, please feel free to join in and WIN!
As parents, we’ve all taken our kids out to eat, and many us have paid the hard price of trying to enjoy a meal with a little one (or ones) sitting at the same table.
Tell us your “dinner out with the kids” horror story - and tell us what you do now to avoid the food on the walls, juice on the table, and sanity gone totally out the window. Do you just not go out with them anymore? Do you bring a babysitter? Or do you stash some sort of magic toy that occupies them while you scarf down your meal?
We’re teaming up with Burger King to promote their new promotional kids’ meal toys by Crayola - perfect for boys or girls, and definitely worth tucking into your bag before heading out to eat.
Here’s how to participate:
Write a post about dining out with your kids. Post anytime this weekend - today, August 8 through Sunday, August 10.
Maker sure to link http://www.ClubBK.com and http://blog.parentbloggers.com somewhere in your post. Also, please include the following blurb:
“This post was written for Parent Bloggers Network as part of a sweepstakes sponsored by Burger King Corp.”
Then email us the link to your post at parentbloggers@gmail.com.
We’ll be linking them up right here all weekend long, so be creative with your title!
What can you win?
We’ve got two $250 VISA gift cards to spend on gas so families can still go out to eat together without having to worry about the high cost of gas at the pump.
Two lucky winners will be drawn at random.
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Call the Security Guards, They’re Here Again
Didn’t This Used to Be More Relaxing?
Eating Out: Worth the Public Humiliation?
Forks and French Fries: A Dinner Time Fit
Going Out to Eat Is a Nightmare
Going Out to Eat Just Got Harder but We Still Do It!
How About a Little Grabby with Your Pancakes?
How Not to Be a Jerk with Kids in Public
I Very Nearly Left CJ in Utah. On Purpose.
My Secret to Treating Kids Out to Lunch and Finding Time for Me
Oh Man, I Am That Circus at Your Local Fish Restaurant
She Got the Chef’s Compliments
They Lock the Doors When They See Us Coming
Thinking About Going Out to Dinner with a Colicky Baby?
This Is What I Get for Bragging
Why We Don’t Go to Restaurants
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I am scared to post this for two reasons, 1. the blog mafia will hunt me down and put me in cement crocs and 2. it will come back and bit me in the butt.
We’ve never had an issue with the kids and going out to dinner. We’ve been lucky that Thing 1 and Thing 2 have been well behaved on our few and far between outings. They know the rules apply outside our home just as much as they do on the inside.
I will admit that 2 yrs ago we were on a road trip with the boys and after 2 hours of ” he did this, he did that” I lost it. I went from 65 miles an hour to a screaming hault on the side of the road. I sternly informed them that I did not want to hear a word out of them for the remaining 45 minutes of the trip or they would both be confined to their bedrooms for the rest of their lives. Yes a bunch of BS I know but it worked.
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