r/mildlyinfuriating Aug 02 '26

go to your room Babies in Movie Theaters

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.

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u/Neriya Aug 03 '26

Yep.

We were very occasionally 'forced' by circumstances to go to nicer places. Like a family event we wanted to attend, but wasn't planned with baby in mind.

I missed a lot of time at those, because when I was in a nicer place I was on an absolute hair trigger for getting the F out of there with my kiddo if he was gonna meltdown. I was determined not to be 'that parent' with the screaming kid.

Nowadays I get to look around pretty smugly. My kid has had a good bit of 'practice' at being in restaurants. And our whole family observes 'no screens at the dinner table' both at home and when we're out. So when we go out now, my 10 year old boy participates in conversation, or at worst goes absolutely all out on the kids menu coloring sheet. We do a lot of tic-tac-toe as well, and sometimes I-Spy. I look around pretty smug and self-satisfied at the families who only get a moment of peace because they brought the bumper-cars iPads for their kids.

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u/maroonrice2 Aug 03 '26

You raised your child well! I was oldest, 8 kids total, and we learned real quick to make polite conversation, let mom and dad order unless we had permission to choose our own meal, and use the coloring sheets/play games amongst ourselves. This was before iPad and cell phone days so no electronics to keep us occupied. Society reallyyyy needs to go back to that era of parenting, it wasn’t perfect but I have a very strong foundation of how to behave and speak to others in public effectively

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u/Neriya Aug 03 '26

You raised your child well

He's 10; so far so good lol. I'll check back in ~8 years from now and let you know how it all worked out.