Japanese Coffee Shop Rejects Children Accidentally Leads to Child Discipline Discussion

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A Japanese-style coffee shop in Japan recently broke the Japanese-style sliding door by young children, causing the shopkeeper to refuse to bring guests with young children to the door, accidentally triggering netizens to discuss the issue of child discipline. Finally, the comedy ended after the parents called to apologize.

Although Songyong Shengxing, the owner of the coffee shop, began to allow parents to bring preschool children into the store in September, he must first make three rules and really abide by the store's requirements before he can have the conditions to enter.

A coffee shop in Okayama prefecture recently tweeted that guests with preschoolers were not allowed to enter the store, the Asahi Shimbun reported.

This coffee shop is located on a slender ramp in General Society City, Okayama Prefecture. It was converted into a coffee shop 10 years ago. The restaurant has a nostalgic atmosphere, including peace-style seats and table seats, with about 40 seats, run by the boss and five other employees.

The incident happened in July, when a Japanese sliding door paper in the store was partially damaged. They decided that the damage may have been caused by children, so they put the damaged sliding door in front of the store and posted the message "recently there has been an increase in the damage of equipment in the store by preschoolers", hoping to make customers aware of this phenomenon.

As a result, a few days later, the Japanese sliding door was poked several more holes, although the suspected mischievous child was found, but the mother left without saying, "my child didn't do it."

Songyong temporarily refused to bring any preschoolers except 0 years old into the store from opening to 5 p.m., and posted photos of the damaged sliding doors on Aug. 13, prompting netizens to retweet more than 30, 5000 times.

In fact, he said, the store used to be troubled by the behavior of customers who brought children. For example, mothers are so busy chatting that they don't notice what their children are doing, causing damage to the menu in the store, drinks spilling over onto tatami mats, and so on. This year alone, it happens every two to three days on average.

Matsuyong Shinji said that considering the atmosphere in the store and the burden of the staff, they will adopt the strategy of refusing to enter. After all, they are in business, and it is very painful to make such a decision.

Many netizens strongly support the boss, "parents who can't control their children, parents who break things and don't talk do have problems" and "this situation really makes employees exhausted." but some netizens believe that "replacing Japanese-style sliding doors with glass products is also necessary for shop owners' self-protection," and "not all children are undisciplined, so it would be better not to ban them all."

Matsumoto finally received a call from his parents on August 27, apologizing for his child's damage to the sliding door, and making Matsuyong think about whether to let guests with children into the store again.

Kazun Sato, a professor at Okayama Prefectural University in Japan, said the situation reflects the low quality of regional education and family education.

Sato Hashun said that due to urbanization and the increase in nuclear families, there is less and less interaction with local residents and relatives, and whether it is children's good or evil of things, or parents' discipline of their children, they all lose the opportunity to learn from the surrounding life.

Kazun Sato said that the number of children is serious, and the number of "parents who can't swear" who overprotect their children is also on the rise.

He believes that in order to solve the problem of child discipline, it is very important for society to have a place for parents to meet and to communicate with each other. Although it can not be said that the owner of the coffee shop refused to enter the coffee shop, it is a bit of a pity to be able to communicate in the coffee shop.

However, the incident caused repercussions on the Internet, and after it was disclosed by the media, Matsuyong was lucky to feel the power of the Internet and the media, and decided to conditionally open parents with young children to enter the store from September.

The incident unexpectedly triggered discussion, showing that Japanese society has changed as a result of having fewer children, and how to discipline their children has become an important issue for parents.