Basically my wife and I want to see Pirates of the Carr and cant leave our little one at home. So planning to take her along. Plan to use some cotton ear plugs to protect her ears but otherwise hoping she wont have any other problems. Has anyone done this and what do you guys think, please advise.
2006-09-09 08:44:13 · 37 answers · asked by Manish 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
my husband and I took out 4 year old and our 11 month old to see Clerks 2 since we had been wanting to see it and haven't seen a movie in a long time (madagascar, and before that LOTR2)
Anyhow, as long as you have snacks for her to eat (healthy ones for her) a bottle and maybe a quiet toy or two you should be fine. sit as near the exit as you can, and if you can, try to get your baby to sleep before you go in there. it wil make it so much easier, and if she is like my girls, she will sleep right through the entire thing.
Also, try to go to a matinee during the week when most people are at work. That way you will have less people to worry about disturbing.
Good luck and enjoy the movie.
2006-09-09 09:51:38 · answer #1 · answered by Genny 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a terrible idea. First of all, you don't want to stick anything into a baby's ears, because they could manage to shove them way up in there and damage their hearing for life.
Second, even if she can't hear it all the way, she can still see it, and something that big and bright, and with all of those strangers, will probably frighten her.
Then she'd cry, and if you didn't have the sense to get up and leave, someone would complain about you, and the people from the theatre would ask you to leave.
An 11 month old also will not want to sit still for the entire hour and a half, or however long the movie is.
She'll want down, and she'll try to crawl on the sticky, dirty floor, and find little bits of candy that people drop and stick them in her mouth, and, even if she's not afraid and crying, she'll probably see the need to 'share' her smashed popcorn in the carpet discoveries with everyone by screaming at the top of her lungs right when something really important is being explained.
What may be a good idea, however, is to see if any of your local cinemas have baby days. At a few theatres in my area, they have special times, usually once a week, where they show a popular movie and invite families with very small children to see it. That way, nearly everyone in teh audience is with a baby, and you won't have everyone in the room giving you dirty looks.
Even though you did pay for your ticket fair and square, and have every right so see the movie, you must remember that they paid for their tickets too, and have the right to see it without disruption.
2006-09-09 17:33:44 · answer #2 · answered by Queen Queso 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In general, I do not recommend it writing as a fellow movie patron. I do not enjoy a movie when a baby cries or laughs or makes any other noise in the background or grown folks for that matter. It really depends on the temperament of your baby. Is your little one able to maintain a quiet disposition for the length of the movie? Only you know the answer. IF so, then maybe you should get out & enjoy a movie. I have a 4 month old & I wouldn't dare do it.
If you do decide to, please follow this:
A) stay near the exit to the theater so if the signs begin that your baby will start the disturbance, you can escape before it escalates.
B) Make sure your baby is not hungry.
C) Go at a time when the theater is not crowded &/or when the baby is known to be sleepy (naptime or sleep time).
2006-09-09 13:19:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leave the child at home. You are assuming she will either sleep through the show or just sit there quietly, which will probably never happen. The sound will be very high, she will get scared and start screaming. Then you will have to leave and miss the movie. Ask yourself, if you were booking a seat on a plane and had a choice between sitting with adults or a bunch of kids, where would you sit? Remember, there are a few hundred other people in that room, all paying their money to see a good show. Try to think about them.
2006-09-09 08:56:17 · answer #4 · answered by 2hot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had good luck and bad luck with this. First, do NOT stick anything in her ears, ever. A movie is not loud enough to harm her unless you're sitting directly in front or next to a speaker. Second, be courteous to the others in the theater. Do you think they really want to hear a screaming kid? I hate that. Nothing irritates me more than people talking during a movie, or letting their kids scream and cry.
With that said, I used to take my youngest to the theater when he was a baby. A lot of times he just slept right through the whole thing, but a couple of times he would start to cry and I'd have to leave.
So I would suggest finding a sitter. You'll only be gone for less than 3 hours. See if one of the local teenagers can do it. I use family friends, or family members. If you don't want to get a sitter, you're gonna have to wait until Pirates comes out on video, sorry.
2006-09-09 08:53:55 · answer #5 · answered by jenpeden 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally wouldn't do it... for a few reasons:
- It's not age appropriate for the child
- It will be a neusance for others in the theater (I almost guarantee it).
- It's too long for a child to be seated in a dark place with their ears stuffed up.
You could give it a try... but I strongly suggest that at the first sign of restlessness, you immediately walk out of the theatre (and be okay with losing out on your tickets). I've been to the movies where people have brought their children... some as young as 2 months... and it was quite annoying when their children would start crying of fussing. I'm a parent and wouldn't impose that kind of disturbance on anyone else.
2006-09-09 08:53:32 · answer #6 · answered by VixenMom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, is it a drive in theater?
You can go to one but plan to keep the baby cozy and wellfed, pleased. Go with the mindset you will have a good time even if baby goes in the diaper too often and the wife has to keep getting up to change the baby. I've never taken one to the theater but have seen people do that before. The babies usually cry. I have taken them to the drive in theater though. It is awfully loud for the baby. Good news is s/he's probably not old enough to be afraid of the dark, so s/he may keep quiet if kept cozy.
This is a sweet idea, trying to do something normal and keep baby with you, by the way.
2006-09-09 08:49:49 · answer #7 · answered by *babydoll* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No .. those are the kind of things that are on before the movie beings about the crying baby and the cell phone, and all this other stuff .. id hire a babysitter, and wait till the kinds 4 or 5 to take them to a movie, then they can actually enjoy it.
2006-09-09 08:51:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have the baby get babysat for a few hours, why would you want to ruin the movie for everyone else in there. There will most likely be other parents there too, that got a few hours to themselves and want to relax and enjoy. The only thing they need is to go to a movie just to find another screaming baby there. I mean why leave home!
2006-09-09 12:16:20 · answer #9 · answered by Tina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't, not with an 11-month-old. I took my baby to many movies when she was small. I just carried her in a sling and nursed her... she even slept through a screening of King Kong. By the time she was 6 months old, though, she no longer just slept through movies. I think that movies aren't good for little ones that age, and they will mar your enjoyment of it, and the enjoyment of other patrons.
Try getting a sitter (if you can) or take turns going to see it.
2006-09-09 09:42:50 · answer #10 · answered by kalirush 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋