{"id":851621,"date":"2026-03-26T13:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/851621\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:06:15","slug":"landlords-children-are-your-future-lifeblood-toast-them-dont-ban-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/851621\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlords, children are your future lifeblood \u2014 toast them, don\u2019t ban them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But banning children, it turns out, wasn\u2019t enough. Having made his position perfectly clear to anyone who\u2019d tried to bring a small person in for a quiet half, the landlord apparently felt the need to take the argument further \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/03\/23\/ive-banned-kids-from-my-pub-why-should-parents-let-them-run-riot-unsupervised-27617209\/\">to Metro<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=45843X1573846&amp;articleId=b1276556&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2Fpub-bans-children-claiming-entitled-parents-dont-know-how-to-look-after-them-13523062&amp;sref=https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/comment\/comment\/london-pub-bans-children-parent-reacts-b1276556.html\">Sky News<\/a>, to Instagram, to anyone who\u2019d listen \u2014 to explain that the real issue wasn\u2019t the ban itself, but the entitled, feckless, supervision-averse parents who had made it necessary. Parents are, it seems, a people who have mistaken a Hackney pub for a cr\u00e8che, who lack the basic understanding that children require watching in public spaces, and who have \u2014 through our collective negligence \u2014 stressed out the dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But banning children, it turns out, wasn\u2019t enough. Having made his position perfectly clear to anyone who\u2019d tried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,389,10391,393,4884,45953,257,25720,3176,1889,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-851621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-children","10":"tag-east-london","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-hackney","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-london-pubs","16":"tag-parents","17":"tag-pubs","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116295629902899002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}