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Age, illness, doesn't matter. I don't care if you are 2 or 20, if you can't sit quietly in a movie theater, you don't belong there. I've seen 2 year olds sit through Disney movies without making a peep, I've seen 50 year old men be totally obnoxious in a movie theater too.
At a Disney movie? I am sure there were plenty of kids being noisy. It's just that this child's noises were not the *normal* noises.
Of course, she might have wanted to find a theater that did sensory friendly movies where there would be more special needs kids and they would be accepted. Still, it doesn't sound like the man who yelled at him was justified.
Doesn't matter what kind of noise or what the condition f the person is. He should not have been there if the Parents already knew all this up front. The child probably did not care whee he was to see this movie, if he was even watching, so its the Parents fault for having the idea that their perceived rights trump the rights of all others because of the boys handicap. You get no special treatment other than courtesy. You don't get to be In your face" to anyone if your the problem, and then try to invoke sympathy for herself when it was she who caused the whole ordeal.
True, the man should have complained to the Theatre Management, but the Parents should have been smart enough not to let it get to that point. I probably would have said something myself if I was trying to watch a Movie I paid a ticket price for. No one wants two shows going on at the same time, regardless of who is involved or their condition. Sorry...
I dunno, I can't say I blame the man. If your child is going to be more disruptive than other children...and you know that in advance...maybe you shouldn't bring that child to the movies.
A good friend of mine has an autistic son; she would never take him to the movies or a fancy restaurant because she knows what the end result would be.
I wouldn't bring ANY 20 month old to a movie theater. I didn't bring mine until they were 4 years old. And even then, they knew what kind of behavior was expected of them.
Vito wasn't 20 months unless someone in that family is adopted. He was 20 months when she wrote the article. She didn't say the age when he was at the movie, but she mentioned her 2-year old was bouncing off the seats. 24 - 9 = 15 months = Vito's maximum possible age.
Also, Disney makes more than Donald Duck these days; Star Wars and Tomorrowland. This could have been a screening of Maleficent. I wouldn't take my noisemakers to any theater at any age before they can remember/comprehend/care About what they see. I wish others would do the same, but it takes all types, I guess.
So, Kudos to the mom for not penning some passive-aggressive open letter without at least trying to confront the person. She's got guts, but maybe a bit too much of them. Negative points for a child too young, not being considerate of others, and calling someone a coward for not getting into an altercation with the could-be-crazy martyr lady. I'm on the dude's side on this one.
People do not have the right to live live's free from disruption. Living in society is messy, annoying, complicated and a whole list of positives adjectives as well. But this notion that we have some sort of right to not be bothered is ridiculous. If the person was so bothered by a child's laughing at a children's movie that they felt the need to lash out publicly they should have gotten up, gone to management and exchanged their tickets for a different time.
I went to go see pitch perfect 2 last weekend. Decidedly not a children's movie, and yet there were twenty plus 10-12 yos in the movie singing along loudly to some of the songs. It was vaguely annoying, but so what? They were kids, a necessary part of any society, that we're having fun! Even if that fun was louder than I would have liked. If it really bothered me I could have switched to another showing because there is going to be another one again soon.
So yes, people should be considerate of others, but those others should be considerate as well. Not yelling at a laughing toddler at a children's movie is just plain considerate.
Just looked up Tomorrowland. It's not one of the cartoony movies like Cinderella. I don't think the movie is appropriate for a child that young. He doesn't have have the ability to follow that type of movie even though it was Disney. Mom is wrong.
People do not have the right to live live's free from disruption. Living in society is messy, annoying, complicated and a whole list of positives adjectives as well. But this notion that we have some sort of right to not be bothered is ridiculous. If the person was so bothered by a child's laughing at a children's movie that they felt the need to lash out publicly they should have gotten up, gone to management and exchanged their tickets for a different time.
I went to go see pitch perfect 2 last weekend. Decidedly not a children's movie, and yet there were twenty plus 10-12 yos in the movie singing along loudly to some of the songs. It was vaguely annoying, but so what? They were kids, a necessary part of any society, that we're having fun! Even if that fun was louder than I would have liked. If it really bothered me I could have switched to another showing because there is going to be another one again soon.
So yes, people should be considerate of others, but those others should be considerate as well. Not yelling at a laughing toddler at a children's movie is just plain considerate.
Negative. People pay money, and good money, to watch and listen to movies in a theater. Thus, everyone attending has a duty to be quiet and not obnoxious while in the theater so others, who have also paid for their tickets, can enjoy it. It is not the theatergoers' responsibility to put up with other people's loud children. Movies are not carvivals or circuses. It is an entirely different kind of event in which it is not OK to be loud. Context is everything.
Negative. People pay money, and good money, to watch and listen to movies in a theater. Thus, everyone attending has a duty to be quiet and not obnoxious while in the theater so others, who have also paid for their tickets, can enjoy it. It is not the theatergoers' responsibility to put up with other people's loud children. Movies are not carvivals or circuses. It is an entirely different kind of event in which it is not OK to be loud. Context is everything.
Yes, and this was a toddler in a children's movie who had also paid to be there.
Context is everything, so if your going to a children's movie expect to hear children. Laughing, maybe even crying, but yelling at the parent is not the appropriate recourse regardless of the context.
1: The mother had a disruptive child, that was disturbing other movie goers. It does not matter that the child was a special needs child, or an absolutely a typical child. That has nothing to do with it. It was a child destroying the pleasure of people that had paid good money to see the movie. The mother had an obligation to remove the child from the audience when it was disrupting other peoples pleasure of enjoying the movie.
2: The mother was upset that the other movie patrons asked her to remove the disruption that was ruining the movie for them.
The mother was clearly in the wrong, as she did not take her child from the theater and not disrupt other theater goers pleasure in seeing a movie when the trouble started. That is what people living in a civilized country do. She should not have waited until someone asked her to stop the child from disrupting their evening out. There is no way, that she would not have known in advance that the child would probably have been disruptive, and still took the child to the movie. I do understand special needs children, as I raised one myself. As the father of 5 children, we would never have taken that small of a child to the theater as any small child can be disruptive.
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