Lego tables are the best! But yeah, often restaurants just throw some toys in a corner and forget to look at it, 'cause they don't actually play with it themselves. Always quite sad to see a kid corner which was once cute, but now stuffed with dirty, broken things. But lego is apparently very washable, throw it in a net and in the washing machine, it should work. Well, I'd leave out the super tiny stuff, but it should work they say. I never really tried it though.
We were at a hotel last year where they had an entire playroom. It was a HUGE mess, but my kids still loved playing there. It hurt my eyes, so we put everything away that evening. The kids got a card game as a gift from the owner for cleaning up so nicely. Lol, at least, that's what they told them. She said that usually kids made a mess but after a while got tired of it and cleaned up themselves. I wonder what kids go there... I think all kids would need someone to come up with the idea to clean up, 'cause by themselves? I don't believe that.
Quiet babies, yeah, the first was super quiet. We used to leave him in his car seat and he'd just look around when we were eating. Those were the good times. Then #2 came, ah. That was different. He made sure we did not forget about him. D:
My eldest is 10, but we still don't have smartphone's or tablets. Correction, we have one tablet I sometimes use for reading, but that's about it. I got it for home schooling and we had just one pc, it was easier if they could both make their school work at the same time.
Disadvantage, my kids both cannot really type. But I think they'll learn that soon enough when needed, it was just... suddenly needed. >.> But I just don't want to get them out of their tree house to practise typing, like... Priorities. D: