An image of a pub restaurant mess left by a child has sparked a furious response, with thousands calling for parents to take more responsibility for their children’s actions.

The photo was uploaded to an online forum dedicated to Australia and Australians, with the caption, “Is this OK now? Family at local pub let their kid fling food all over the place and made zero attempt to stop them, then left it for staff to clean up.”

The photo shows chips and food left strewn across the carpeted floor, and ignited a fiery debate in the comments, with most of the 1000 comments dedicated to shaming the parents.

“We have generations now that were paid to have children and let someone else take care of them,” said one commenter. “Both parents typically working now and a woke culture of ‘not my fault, you offended me’ where everyone is a winner. What do we think the result is going to be…”

While another, who works in a similar establishment, let loose:

“I work in a bowlo, we frequently have f**kwit, entitled parents bring their crotch goblins in, they do this .. .trash the kids area (yes, my work f**ked up and put one of them in), give zero f**ks then walk out. We warn them frequently, they don’t care, we threaten to kick them out, they don’t care … we say one thing to the kids, and you’d swear you just told the parents their kids were murderers. The parents are c**ts. The kids are c**ts.

“And it’s very obvious none of them were belted as a kid because they’re pulling sh*t like this. If I even thought about pulling a stunt like this as a kid my mother’s foot would still be embedded up my ass now at the age of 31. I long for the day that everyone under the age of 18 is banned.”

Interestingly, there have been restaurants who have banned young children, after dealing with the constant mess.

However, there are others who say it’s not a big deal, “It’s is ok … Takes 1 min to sweep up … Stop being a sook.”

While other parents weighed in with a more balanced view.

“My children are like this. Not because they’re naughty but because they’re children and are very messy. I clean it up and pop it into napkin and leave it on the stacked plates to be taken away.

“But to play devil’s advocate, the only thing that can bother me when I see posts like this shaming children is that we see fully grown adults dropping glasses and food etc which is an accident and people seem to give adults more grace for acting a fool than children. I’ve never seen an adult patron be asked to clean up broken glass for example.

“Like I said I do clean up my kids mess as I am not an animal but maybe we can also understand that kids aren’t automatically terrible kids for being messy.”

This isn’t the first time that restaurant goers have taken to the internet to shame parents who have left a mess at a restaurant, and it probably won’t be the last!

So, what do you think? Should the parents have cleaned up this mess, or at least stopped their child throwing food? Let us know what you think in the comments below. 

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