The Left Can’t Erase Moms And Dads, No Matter How Hard They Try
'Mother' and 'father' are real words with real definitions that carry real responsibilities anchored to the creation of a child.'Mother' and 'father' are real words with real definitions that carry real responsibilities anchored to the creation of a child.Restaurant ignites fierce debate for charging parents for unruly kids: 'We said the quiet part out loud'
A California restaurant sparked a heated debate after instituting a policy to charge parents who fail to control their unruly children.
Chez Xue is a Chinese restaurant in Foster City — approximately 20 miles south of San Francisco.
'We are a casual restaurant, but we’re not a Chuck E. Cheese.'
Chez Xue has a policy that warns parents that they may be asked to leave the restaurant if their children are disobedient. The restaurant also cautioned that it will "hold parents financially liable for all damage caused by their children to restaurant property."
Chez Xue said on the restaurant's website: "Please control your children."
"Chez Xue is a family-friendly restaurant," the site said. "However, we are not a playground."
"Please ensure children REMAIN SEATED at all times and be respectful of fellow guests and the dining environment," the restaurant stated.
The notice declared, "Running around, shouting, making noise with utensils, etc. WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!"
"Guests not respecting this policy may be asked to leave," the Chez Xue restaurant said.
The eatery warned, "We will hold parents financially liable for all damage caused by their children to restaurant property."
The Los Angeles Times reported that the policy was instituted about a year ago when the restaurant's owner, You You Xue, caught a customer changing a baby's diaper on the top of a dining booth in the middle of the restaurant. After that incident, Xue knew he had to do something.
Xue, who does not have kids, got fed up with children "fooling around and basically trashing the place" while parents allowed their kids to be disorderly.
"We are a casual restaurant, but we’re not a Chuck E. Cheese," Xue told the Los Angeles Times.
The policy recently went viral after a patron posted screenshots of the restaurant's menu on the X social media platform.
The menu provided examples of "recent damages" caused by children at the restaurant.
In April 2025, parents were charged $327.03 because their child shattered a credit card machine when the kid picked it up and dropped it on the ground.
In December 2025, a kid used a utensil to carve drawings into a tabletop, and the parents were charged $109.38.
The restaurant charged a parent $5.47 after a child broke a teacup in January 2026.
The internet was staunchly divided over the establishment's policy.
One netizen wrote on X, "If your kids are smashing credit card machines and carving things into furniture, they don't belong in restaurants. End of conversation."
Someone else said, "On the one hand, yes, absolutely, please raise respectful kids. In support! On the other hand, kids will be kids, and ~$500/yr in damages feels like a reasonable cost of doing business as a family-friendly restaurant."
Commenters were vocal on the restaurant's Instagram page about the policy.
One person wrote, "BRAVO on your policy fining families for disruptive children."
Another one said, "This is incredibly discouraging for people with children who have disabilities."
Someone proclaimed, "GREAT POLICY!"
Users on the restaurant review website Yelp were divided on the new policy.
A commenter stated, "Coming on here because I am so happy that the owner is standing up to parents and making them be accountable for their parenting. This is a practice that needs to be serviced everywhere. We have all seen too many examples of parents not watching or caring what their children do! Kudos to you."
Another person said, "Not a family restaurant! If you want to live in a kidless world, I guess this spot is for you. Don't forget you were a kid once and I am sure your parents brought you to restaurants before."
Someone added, "I hope more restaurants implement policies like this. The world and restaurant scene would be a much better place!"
Xue told the New York Post, "My staff, my servers were being forced to parent children on behalf of other parents. That's not their job."
Xue added, "Parenting has become so relaxed, and I know if I acted some ways these children are acting, I would have gotten my a** beat."
"We don’t blame the kids — I’m very proud of the fact that this is an unpretentious restaurant where people can come with their whole families," Xue explained. "It’s to remind this very small group of parents who are not doing their jobs: Please do your job so we can do ours."
Xue noted that he takes no pleasure in having to confront parents who are not disciplining their kids.
"I don’t want to be put in that position," Xue told the Los Angeles Times. "It's so awkward to go up to a parent and say something so obvious."
Xue told the Los Angeles Times that the general reaction to the policy has been overwhelmingly positive.
Xue revealed that the number of incidents "has fallen considerably to basically zero" since introducing the policy.
Xue stated, "We said the quiet part out loud. We said something that a lot of people are thinking, and we’ve come forward and spoken on behalf of other restaurants and on behalf of customers who have had a meal ruined by a loud child."
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
Let Your Kids Grow Up Without A Homing Signal
By constant monitoring, we’re not just giving up freedom for temporary safety, we’re raising kids to think the surveillance state is normal.Adoption agency draws a line: Children need a mom and a dad — and the stats prove it
A Christian adoption agency just drew a major line in the sand.
Bethany Christian Trust has committed to prioritizing child welfare and biblical truth over adult identity by announcing it will only place children with families that align with its biblical statement of faith starting in June 2027.
And BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is thrilled, especially considering the research backs up the agency's belief that children should be raised by a mother and a father — not by homosexual couples.
“According to a study in 2012, a study by Regnerus, children of LGBT parents fare worse than other children on 77 out of 80 social outcome measures,” Stuckey begins.
“So according to the study, compared with children raised by their married, biological parents, children of homosexual parents attain lower levels of education, report less safety and security within their family of origin, experience greater ongoing negative effects from their family of origin, are more likely to struggle with depression, anxiety, have higher rates of arrest,” she says.
A separate study also “showed poor education outcomes for children of LGBT parents, finding they’re 35% less likely to progress normally through school” and “suffer emotional problems at twice the rate of children raised by a mother and father.”
“Child objectification is going to end now. You’re not going to be sacrificing your kids to the pagan gods anymore,” Stuckey says. “We’re going to stop that.”
“You’re not going to sacrifice your child on the altar of progressivism. No, no, no. Not as long as we have a say in it,” she continues.
“I’m very encouraged with just the allegiance to not only biblical morality but reality, too, because science statistics are always catching up with God,” she adds, “They’re always catching up with what the Bible says.”
Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?
To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
Glenn Beck reveals why kids are falling for toxic ready-made identities — and exactly what parents can do
Right now, our youth are virtually ignorant of the American story. According to the most recent data from the Nation's Report Card (NAEP), students know almost nothing about the nation’s founding.
On the last National History exam in 2022, only 13% of eighth graders scored proficient. Roughly 40% scored below the NAEP basic level in U.S. history — the lowest performance category.
Glenn Beck is deeply concerned about these numbers.
“We are raising a generation that cannot explain the country they're standing in,” he laments.
But that’s not even close to the biggest threat facing our young people.
“It's not just the [American] story that is thinning out,” sighs Glenn. “It is everything that used to hold a person in place.”
Stories, family, friendship, and church, he argues, are all vital to the human spirit. But these cornerstones have been slowly crumbling with each generation. Today, much of the country struggles with “loneliness” — a condition that has become so rampant, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy declared it an “epidemic” in 2023.
“Try to hold all of that in your head at once and then say, ‘What do you think's happening to our kids?’” says Glenn. “No shared story, emptied out churches, emptied out clubs, a friendship drought, a loneliness the doctors are calling a health emergency. Now picture being born into that.”
“You don't even know where you are. You have no map. You have no name for who your people are. There's no seat saved at any table for you. You just have a screen in your hand and a thousand strangers glad to tell you who you ought to be. That's the ground our kids are standing on,” he continues.
Kids, he argues, come into the world not knowing who they are. Slowly, over time, they develop an identity “piece by piece” based on “whatever is reflected back at them.”
But what’s reflected back at them today is largely determined by screens controlled by algorithms designed to mold and condition.
“Some of the voices reaching your kids, they are not random, OK? You've got people who know exactly what they're doing. They have a vision for who your kid should become,” Glenn warns.
These visions are often incredibly alluring to the floundering youngster.
Glenn imagines a young child still in his most formative years “swimming ... in an ocean of a thousand voices,” desperately trying to nail down his identity.
“And then one of those voices steps forward and offers the whole package: Finished identity. Here's who you are; here's your people; here's your club; here's what you stand for,” he visualizes.
This promise of “finally becoming someone” is “the hook” that so many children fall prey to today.
“When a kid feels invisible, a ready-made identity stops becoming attractive and becomes irresistible because they're looking for a shore,” says Glenn.
It’s the job of parents to provide them with a different shore.
Glenn has two pieces of advice.
“Give them a place where they belong ... where they can sit and disagree, and it's allowed,” he says, highlighting how so many of the poisonous movements kids get swept up in today demand absolute conformity as a prerequisite for admission.
“If the only place you're offering your kid belonging is a place that demands their silence, they will pay that price,” Glenn cautions, “and when they're hurting, when they've gone quiet and pulled away ... that's the moment to move towards them because somebody's going to fill that void in your kid.”
His second encouragement is to “tell them about the trap.”
“[Tell them] if anyone ever tells you that you have to stop doubting in order to belong, run — run from them. If they promise that they will transform you, and all that you have to do for payment is be compliant, that's the tell,” Glenn urges.
The key, he says, isn’t creating the perfect bubble to shield them from the world’s dangers. The key is “[making] sure that when they walk out your door, their eyes are wide open, and they have a home worth coming back to.”
To hear more, watch the video above.
Want more from Glenn Beck?
To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
New York Times Celebrates Father’s Day By Running ‘Bearded Women Can Replace Dads’ Propaganda
The 'trans dad' cartoon op-ed is a reminder that the legacy media have a sneering disdain for real fathers — and reality.I Want To Be The Loudest Man In Church, Just Like My Dad
For years, I resisted becoming my father. Now I thank God for the parts of him I am inheriting — most of all, his voice.Hochul Won’t Say Whether She’ll Sign Bill Erasing Moms And Dads From NY Law
New York's new bill is another instance of NY Democrats rejecting reality by erasing common-sense language.If You’ll Give Your Dog Surgery But Abort Your Baby, You’re A Horrible Person
Ridgway did not want the challenging lifelong responsibility of taking care of his own flesh and blood. But he will do that for his dog.Today's top stories
www.theblaze.com
www.theblaze.com
thefederalist.com