I've never seen anything like it...
You know my family loves to go to the movies. We go a LOT! The kids and I went with my mom yesterday and I saw something I have never seen before. Never. I've seen kids in movies I wouldn't allow my kids to see, I've had kids kick the back of my chair or pull on it, I've heard kids and adults talking through movies, I've heard cell phones ring. I even heard a kid get slapped in the face for crying during a movie once. We take our kids to the movies because they know how to behave. they sit and watch the movie. And? if they didn't? We would take them out. I think they know that even though it's never been an issue. But they have ALWAYS, since they were really little, gone with us and behaved very well.
Yesterday, at our movie, I saw a mom and dad come in with three children, and the mom was hugely pregnant with another. The kids were probably all under the age of 5. They sat up the stairs, maybe 6 or so rows behind us. Before the movie started, the middle child, maybe 3 ?, was crawling down the stairs. No one was following behind him or coming to get him or walking with him. By the time the movie started, the kid was jumping down the stairs and making noises. During the movie, he ran in and out of the theater no less than 5 times, jumped up and down the stairs several times, ran to the front of the theater and ran in front of the screen, hung on the rails and crawled under them. Through the whole movie. And not once did any parent come down and get him, follow him, anything! They just let him do his thing. I was really appalled by the entire incident. I mean, there were two parents there. One of them could have taken this kid out while the other watched the movie with the other kids, or maybe they just needed to get the kid and make him sit down. I am firmly of the opinion that your children live up to the expectations of behavior you set for them. We've always taken our children to the theater, live theater and movies, so they've known how to behave, but we had to teach them that. These parents were obviously not doing any teaching.
posted by Marlene at 11:29 AM
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Wow, the first comment page opened for the first time in over a week.
I've had to take Sarah out before, we went to a movie just the two of us when she was little, but the movie was too old for her and she was bored, but not nearly as bad as the boy. I would be horrified as a parent to leave my child running around at the movies.
Really I'm surprised no one reported them to the theater management. All someone would have had to do was complain and they would have came and asked one of hte parents to please remove their child or keep them in their seat....
You probably won't come into contact with that again to that extreme, but it's an option. :)
Good grief! I take LG out of the church when she probably is not behaving all that badly, but I don't want her to distract anyone. No WAY would I have let her get away with that behavior.
I'm with Merritt - I'm really surprised someone didn't complain. And what's really scary to me is that they were actually letting him go OUT of the theatre alone??? I don't even want to think of what could have happened to him because they were too lazy to discipline their child.
I actually did complain. The manager said she would be in to see "if there was anything she could do about it" but she never came in to the theater.
Wow. Not very good customer service. :(
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