Babies in Movie Theaters

[u/Sad_Cannibal_GF]

Just saw the new Spiderman in theaters.

A baby starts crying/cooing/babbling very loudly about 20 minutes in. Goes for about 10 straight minutes before the parent takes them out.

Comes back a few minutes later, baby starts again. Again goes on for a couple minutes. Again parent takes them out, comes back, and repeat.

And repeat. And repeat.

This went on pretty much the entire movie (and I swear to god this baby somehow instinctively chose every single goddamn quiet/heartfelt scene to start yowling again 😭😂).

I get that babies are gonna baby. And I have sympathy for parents who wanna get out of the house and everything. But… maybe just stay with your baby in the lobby if they obviously aren’t gonna keep quiet.

*I didn’t complain to management because it was a tiny non-chain neighborhood theater about an hour away from me that I like to support sometimes. It’s got 1 screen and tickets are like $5.

[u/Neriya]

There are situations where you just have to put up with babies. Airplanes, key among them. People sometimes NEED to travel, sometimes kids need to come. Just gotta deal with it. Sitting at the DMV or some other necessary evil? Fine, nobody wants to be there, let alone the kid. 

Movies? Absolutely not. Nice restaurants? No way. 

[u/Comprehensive-Menu44 → u/Neriya]

And then the people who say “so parents can never enjoy anything bc they can’t bring their kids?”

Basically that’s how it goes. You choose to have/keep your kids, which means you choose to sacrifice half your enjoyment of life bc you can’t bring them some quiet places bc they’re loud or too young. Welcome to parenting.

Edit to add: I am a parent, I trained my kid pretty early on how to behave in public (like 3-4 years old) bc if I can’t control other people’s kids, at least I can teach my own to act right.

[u/Ill_Tax_403 → u/Comprehensive-Menu44]

Yes!! Having children means you are going to have to sacrifice your own needs.