We have all seen or heard about the article that was picked up by pretty much every major parenting outlet, highlighting how Juliana Valverde and Brooklyn Cahill got kicked out of a Bad Moms movie screening, by this point in time. No, it’s not okay under any circumstances that these women got the backlash that they did, and as a whole society – we do need to treat moms better who are making big decisions every single day for their babies.
But, I still don’t believe that babies belong in movie theaters.
Many years ago (almost eight at this point), when we had our son, my husband and I were living off-post. He was a soldier in the army full-time and we definitely struggled to make ends meet. He worked many, many gruelling hours while I stayed home with our young son and worked to finish my marketing degree online.
We barely had time for each other, let alone a date night.
Living in a rather expensive city at the time, and being away from friends and family who would have offered us all the free babysitting that we wanted, was hard. But determined to have a date night at one point, we saved for a babysitter so we could have a traditional dinner and a movie out – just the two of us.
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Unless it's a raucous kid's movie I don't believe babies & little kids should be in movie theaters.
Movies are an expensive treat for many so having the experience ruined by a crying baby or toddler is understandably unfair.
Some parents don't seem to understand that "adult-time" extends to quiet, expensive restaurants and complicated, wordy, sensitive films.
Our experience of the movie "The Hours" was ruined by a crying baby.
Another film was ruined by old people sitting behind us chatting ALL THROUGH THE MOVIE.
Years ago another film "The Thin Red Line" was ruined by a group of disrespectful, unruly teenagers.
AND ANOTHER THING........(lol).... Some relatives actually took their little girls aged 6yrs and 8yrs to a viewing of "Jusassic Park".
Big scary dinosaurs created to scare the shit out of adults gave those little girls nightmares for years.
To many, my mini-rant might seem trivial but I love films and appreciate film-craft enough to not want a film ruined by talking, chip-packet-scrunching, crying humans.
Having worked for a large cinema chain, not so long ago, The policy of our cinema was if approached by a customer with a complaint, the person with the crying baby would be asked to leave. The customers have come to watch a movie, & do not want that experience disturbed by a crying baby. I never had to ask anyone to leave, but have seen parents outside trying to calm their baby.