Should parents muzzle their babies in public

[onetime]

http://www.diyhealth.tips/parents-us...-quiet-public/

This topic popped up on my twitter feed this morning and it reminded me of my trip to the movies a couple of weeks ago to see "KONG", by they way if you haven't had a 4-D movie experience I suggest you try it out. Anyways someone had their baby there and while I try to preach empathy to for others plights I find these situations to be a conundrum. While I would never advocate something as barbaric as a baby muzzle or sound canceling device, which I'm sure is in the development, I would say that bringing your kids to the movie theater is a definite no-no. I remember watchjng the dark knight as a kid and someone screaming "shut that baby up", I was thinking then, how rude, but not for the screamer more so the parents. In my case a couple a weeks ago I spent over $30 to see a movie and got the bonus features of listening to a baby crying and parents ssshing her/him. I can't think of any other place where this annoys me, well I can, when I'm outside at a restaurant patio and smoke a cigar, I love it that people with parents roll their eyes at me as if to say you should be better. I'm good with it in church as people may not have a babysitter and may not feel comfortable leaving their infant in a nursery. Just saying

[CenTexDave]

I've experienced that baby crying in a theater before. Used to be one of the parents would pick him/her/it up and go to the lobby and try and calm the baby down. These days it's like "too bad, mind your own business, don't like it then leave".
Of course, that's the snowflakes' way.

[Shotgun Jeremy]

I would love to see theaters start posting "No children under 3 yrs" and turning people around who try to sneak the kid through when they make it to the ticket stub stand.

[Night Owl]

Back in my much younger days movies had a sound proof room for parents and their infants.

[CenTexDave]

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I would love to see theaters start posting "No children under 3 yrs" and turning people around who try to sneak the kid through when they make it to the ticket stub stand.

I agree. Can't afford a baby sitter? Then stay home!!

[Shotgun Jeremy]

Can't afford a babysitter, then maybe you shouldn't be wasting money on a movie theater. It's much cheaper and easier to put on a movie at home and let the little one play/sleep in the next room over.

[fchafey]

The last movie I went to see in a theater was Casino Royale, and it was late enough that there were no screaming kids, and the kids that were there were all tangled up with each other. I don't go to movies because of that. The wife and daughter take the grand daughter to the Temple cinema on the frontage road and they love it. Restaurants now, I hate to say it, but only around here have I experienced this. When the wife and I head south to eat dinner, Baby A's, Chuys, Boiling Pot etc it usually sans screaming kids. I also think the type of restaurant has something to do with it. Went to Old Chicago last week on a Wednesday and low and behold two screaming infants, the hostess asked where would you like to sit? I told her outside.

[Ricky]

Last time I went to the Picture Show I sat down in the chair at which time my feet and both arms we're stuck to the floor and the armrest.... I went to get up and it felt like I blew out my a$$ gasket.

[just2cents]

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Last time I went to the Picture Show I sat down in the chair at which time my feet and both arms we're stuck to the floor and the armrest.... I went to get up and it felt like I blew out my a$$ gasket.

Stop going to the XXX movies.

[Ricky]

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Stop going to the XXX movies.

I knew that was coming.....