Dear WeaselMomma
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A few weeks ago on the Daddy Blog website Dad Wagon, there was a round table style series of four posts on weather it's okay or not to take your baby to the bar. The four contributors of the site all gave their two cents and that was that. That is until CNN online picked up on the story and an ugly brouhaha broke out. The comments turned into a space to spew anger and hatred concerning a hot button topic, that I never even realised was an issue.
Seriously people, what's all the hub-ub about.
I grew up in a blue collar, Irish American, city neighborhood. Every corner had a church, a funeral home, a bakery or corner store and a corner bar. Most of the local watering holes also had kitchens and a decent menu of local favorites, many freshly made. It was common practice when going out to eat with my parents that we would go "down the corner" or "Up to Front Street", referring to local neighborhood Pubs. We would see friends and neighbors there, eating dinner with their own families. We children were to be well behaved and un-disruptive, the same as if my parents had taken us anywhere else.
