What is in coffee shop policy that made this notice controversial?

A café posted a notice reading "No bringing kids to do homework," and the sign spread quickly on social media after a blogger shared it on August 6. The owner clarified that the shop does not refuse children and is not worried about table turnover or people using the air conditioning. The rule targets homework sessions, because tutoring often brings emotional swings between parents and children.

The owner added that parents are still welcome to bring their children for a drink. Reactions split: many readers understood, sharing their own experiences of noisy cafés, while others suggested the notice read simply "No loud noise" so that quiet children and calm parents stay welcome. The debate reflects how cafés balance different customers in a shared space.

Recently, a notice posted at the entrance of a café reading "No bringing kids to do homework" has sparked widespread discussion on social media. The owner later explained that the move was not meant to refuse children entry, nor did it involve factors like table turnover rate or people freeloading on the air conditioning. Rather, it was because tutoring homework easily triggers emotional swings between parents and children, affecting the experience of other customers. Many netizens expressed understanding and shared their own experiences of encountering similar situations in cafés. At the same time, some suggested changing the notice to "No loud noise" to accommodate quiet, well-behaved children and emotionally stable parents. Why exactly do parents prefer to bring their kids to cafés to do homework? And how should cafés balance the needs of different customers? Front Street Coffee looks into it with you.

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On August 6, a blogger posted on social media that a café had a notice posted at its entrance reading "No bringing kids to do homework," and remarked, "Cafés have it so tough these days." Once the post was published, it quickly drew a crowd of netizens to watch and discuss.

It is understood that this notice was not posted online by the café owner himself. Worried about causing misunderstanding, the owner quickly clarified in the comments section: he does not dislike children, the café will not refuse entry to kids, and there is no consideration of so-called "table turnover rate" or "freeloading on the air conditioning."

The reason for posting "No bringing kids to do homework" is that doing homework easily causes emotional ups and downs for both parents and children. In order to provide a relatively comfortable space for other customers, the shop is only refusing the act of "doing homework." The owner also emphasized that the shop very much welcomes moms and dads to bring their children for a drink.

In response, many netizens said they particularly understand the owner's move to post the notice. Many parents with children also admitted that when tutoring their kids on homework, their anger meter shoots straight up and they can easily explode... Some netizens also said that at home, the yelling of parents teaching kids to do homework can be heard clearly even downstairs.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves, and many netizens vented in the comments section about similar situations they had encountered in cafés. For example: in a café, they saw with their own eyes a mother accompanying her child doing homework, and as they wrote, the mother broke down, tore up the homework book and threw it, screamed and ran out of the shop, leaving the child sitting there alone crying; and there were also those who, while writing, started cursing and yelling a few times...

Netizens all said that sitting next to it really affected them, and it was truly frightening. Some customers who could not bear it could only hurriedly finish their coffee and then leave.

But some netizens believe you cannot condemn the whole lot with one strike. Some children are very well-behaved and their parents are emotionally stable, and they also choose to go to cafés when they have free time. If they see a notice at the café entrance like "No bringing kids to do homework" that targets them specifically, they might feel uncomfortable. So some suggested the owner rewrite the notice as "No loud noise."

As for why not go home to do homework, and insist on doing it outside?

Some netizens think it may be to wait for the next extracurricular class; the waiting time is neither long nor short, a bit awkward, so they just find a place to sit. But other netizens think it is because the home environment is too familiar and too comfortable, and before you know it, it is easy to get distracted and do other things, making it impossible to focus on homework.

A café should be a quiet environment. If something happens that disturbs other customers, it puts the owner in a very awkward position. By posting such a notice at the entrance, businesses simply hope to create a cozy and comfortable space for customers entering the shop, so that everyone drinking coffee will not be disturbed by noise.

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