I know some of you have done this but...is a movie so important that you take a baby, under the age of 3, to a midnight show? So sorry for the shooting and it could have happened anytime and anywhere, but speaking of anywhere...what's up with Colorado?
AT that age and under, they tend to sleep through it. IMO, it isn't a big deal! We should be focused on the tragedy, not parenting choices!
If you can't get a sitter for the midnight show, wait until you can get one. Shooting or not, the infant and 4 yo shouldn't have been at that movie, if for no other reason than movies like that are too loud for little ears.
I used to be more laid back about kids in "mature" movies. My mom took me to PG and R stuff when I was pretty young, but I was a super mature kid and the movies were usually ones I was interested in. But I have had my enjoyment of movies infringed upon by parents letting their kids jabber, cry and run around too many times.
Anyone who takes a kid that young to a non kid movie is inconsiderate jerk. Nobody wants to hear a crying kid in a movie without a G rating. If you can't afford a sitter, then you can't afford to go to the movies. Wait for it to come to Redbox. I bet I haven't been to the movies that wasn't a kids movie 4 times in the last 4 years because if we don't have a sitter, we don't go. Its just the polite thing to do. I won't kill you to miss opening weekend of a movie. Life will go on.
My breastfeeding babies have gone to movies,
So I was *that* mother, and I would do it over again in a heartbeat.
Quoting karamille:Anyone who takes a kid that young to a non kid movie is inconsiderate jerk. Nobody wants to hear a crying kid in a movie without a G rating. If you can't afford a sitter, then you can't afford to go to the movies. Wait for it to come to Redbox. I bet I haven't been to the movies that wasn't a kids movie 4 times in the last 4 years because if we don't have a sitter, we don't go. Its just the polite thing to do. I won't kill you to miss opening weekend of a movie. Life will go on.
Quoting Mipsy:AT that age and under, they tend to sleep through it. IMO, it isn't a big deal! We should be focused on the tragedy, not parenting choices!
With my first I was a single mom. I would take my son as a newborn into the theater-I don't remember what times but he would nurse and sleep the whole time.
The only reason I don't take my other two is because I have the older ones now, too. We only all go when its something for everyone, that everyone can sit through.
As for Colorado, my first thought was actually why that late with a baby but then I stopped myself and thought-I did it, too. And now all I can think of is sympathy for those that were killed and injured. Such a sad event.
We all are sorry for the tragedy, it says so in the post and it's heart felt. I saw the young couple on TV and heard how they almost lost their infant, the father could barely talk for the held back tears. I'm a mother of 3 children and, I'm sorry if it makes you mad, but I just don't feel a movie is THAT important that you have to take an infant, that late, to a movie. Their child could have died, not only in the shooting, but the trampeed. That's the difference between a mature parent and a young one...One thinks. The other...just do what they want to do and justify it by saying "Everyone else does it."
Yellow soft drinks or dark?
- ladylovemm
on Jul. 20, 2012 at 5:52 PM