by Michelle Stein posted in Mom Stories

A UK cafe owner has caused quite a stir with a Facebook post addressing parents.
Kim Christofi -- owner of South Kiosk in Felixtowe, located in Suffolk -- warned that parents have exactly five minutes to intervene if their kid is throwing a tantrum. After that, a staff member will step in and talk to the child, Independent reports.
The message, which has since been deleted, read:

?Can we make ourselves perfectly clear to all parents who are too scared to discipline their children about tantrum screaming. We will give you five lenient minutes to ask the child to stop screaming and then we will ask the child ourselves. If that means you too having a tantrum about our having to speak to your child and hurling threats about not returning ? that?s really okay with us. We have a duty of care to the rest of our customers.?
Unsurprisingly, the post was met with hundreds of comments -- many of which were from parents of young children.
?Having a tantrum is part of their development, the parents may be ignoring the child for a reason and I strongly suggest you get on with it,? one commenter replied.
?Why don?t you take a lenient five minutes to have a word with yourself for being hideously insensitive and condescending"? another said.
?Thank you for your kind and understanding post. I?ll make sure my family (including my autistic daughter) never darken your doorway," yet another threatened.
Christofi has since defended their...