Posted on 07/21/2012 11:45:25 PM PDT by Lmo56
Out of all of this horrible tragedy - I cannot help but ask myself the question.
The girl who was killed was 6 and there was a couple with 2 children aged 4 and under [thank God they were spared].
Not only was it past the childrens' bedtimes, but the content of the movie was wholly inappropriate for their ages.
If the mother of the 6 year-old had not taken her, she would still be alive. Just sayin' ...
We’re in an economy where most parents (who have jobs) are forced to work at least two jobs many or those two shifts are 1st and 2nd shift.
Babysitters are raising our children. Mothers and fathers don’t know their children, and their age/rate of development, well enough to know better.
Feminism arrived, women went to work, and parents forgot how to raise children.
So, you wait for it on Netflix and watch it at home - cheaper thanbuying tickets at the theater ...
Its hard getting a babysitter who is willing to watch children so late at night..so for parents who want to see a midnight screening of a movie they figure the kids will sleep while they watch the movie
I can see your point about the content being inappropriate, but could see myself taking my kids out to a midnight movie when they were young. My kids always stayed up late when they were young and weren’t grouchy like most kids are late at night. We homeschooled them, too, so they could always sleep in after a late night. I have never understood people’s concerns about other people’s kids’ bedtimes. I wouldn’t judge them for that.
If they had not gone to the movies that night, the kid might have been killed while in bed, by a truck crashing into her house.
There are no morals or respect for anything or anyone anymore. It is a ME! ME! ME! society. There was something the killer wanted and didn't get and the movie goers had to be at the FIRST showing regardless if they had young kids or not.
Not only to a midnight movie, but an obnoxiously violent, loud midnight movie. I am speechless at the horrific lack of parenting skills exhibited by some.
Children belong in bed at a decent hour besides.
the kids were expected to sleep....they probably thought it was a great treat....
I'll pass on criticizism for now...
Growing up, when parents wanted a night out, they called on their neighbors - and returned the favor when the other couple wanted a night out.
‘Course that means you’ve got to get to know the neighbors relly well b4 you do it ...
And yet, ironically, she WOULD still be alive ...
I messed up and moved a million miles from my home and don't have any family where I live....thus, we couldn't really go out easily...finding babysitters that you trusted?......difficult sometimes...
what we and others like us did though is get together to play cards....kids could run around and we all had a good time...
when we could not afford a sitter for a few hours it normally ment we could not afford the movie either ;)
OH-give it a rest. go out or stay in with kids
Thank you, HamiltonJay.
Movies like this are dark and violent, children don’t belong at a movie like this especially at midnight.
Gee. I didn’t realize the country was so far gone that there was some set “bedtime” everyone must conform to.
For the wee one, 6mos, I can somewhat understand, especially if a breast feeding mother.
They can get ear infections, gas or whatever and not sleep very may regular consecutive hours at all— to feel comfortable leaving a sitter with a cranky baby.
The husband could work crazy hours or they live far away from family and aren’t comfortable leaving their baby with non-family.
Yes, the children come first but it is important for the parents to keep interest in each other and have some sort of adult time together.
Children need both parents and parents need personal attention and time together, too.
Both parents are crucial to raising that child and I think it is in the best interest of the child for parents to nurture their relationship together.
One day that child will leave the nest and the paresnts will again be back to each other, it is nicer if they are still together and not strangers.
I think some parents are somewhat sick in ignoring a partner just to make the child the center. There is a balance. Each parent and the child need the affection.
Maybe I am not with it but I didn’t think midnight was a high-traffic movie time.
Older kids, I have nothing for that.
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