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caeli  ·  3408 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Crying Children and Lazy Parents

    But... why would I want my child at a restaurant or in a movie theater when they're so young they'd be eager to cry? This doesn't make sense to me.

Try to think about this from the parents' perspective. They have a small child so they probably don't get out much. They're dying to just have a nice night out for once and they decide to go out to dinner or to a movie. Maybe it's been weeks since they've been out together. Are you really going to tell them to deal with it and just stay at home yet another night, just in case their child disturbs someone for a couple minutes during the outing?

I do agree with you in the movie theater situation though - that's something that a really ruins the situation for the people watching the movie.