Originally Posted by
bocastephen
If they stomped on the cookie at the gate, there isn't much repercusion from that - you're not going to be escorted from the airport. But if you do that inside a MLL, or allow your children to do that, and make a nuisance of themselves, the MLL staff can, and should ask you to either get your children under control, or leave the MLL and wait outside in the terminal.
But... the staff didn't do that.
My (rhetorical) question is whether it's acceptable anywhere, even if it's an objectively public space.
I know your opinions on MLL behavior, and I tend to agree with you 95% of the time. But I don't want this discussion to digress into "children are allowed in the MLL" when IMO there's a more important discussion.