There?s an old English saying that my mother often quoted while I was growing up: children in company should be seen and not heard.
It?s based on the idea that children can only learn how to behave by being exposed to the real world with the proviso that, in the course of their training, they sit down and shut up.
It?s a philosophy which clearly never reached Singapore.
Any night of the week, at restaurants across the Lion City, fat little emperors and empresses are the boisterous centerpieces around which adults attempt to eat.
The little ones hold court, shouting orders at parents and waiters, eating with the same disgusting table manners, one assumes, they picked up at home.
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