Woman Asks Kids Running Around Theater, Hitting the Movie Screen to Sit Down, Then Gets Yelled at by Their Mom

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• A woman takes her 5-year-old daughter to the cinema to watch a family-friendly movie

• However, an hour into the show two other children started running around, “ruining” her daughter’s experience

• The woman eventually told a member of staff but was severely reprimanded by another mother

One woman took to Reddit to ask if she was wrong to “scold a toddler” while watching a movie with her daughter.

In a post on Reddit, the woman explained that she recently took her 5-year-old daughter to see a popular children’s movie that was showing at 5 p.m.

She noted that the theater was “packed and busy,” which was a big deal for the mother-daughter duo, who “are both autistic and often struggle with chatter while we’re watching.” While she acknowledged that “noise is normal in a movie theater full of children,” she was not prepared for what was about to happen.

The woman said the movie was going well until about an hour in, when two small children, about three or four, started “jumping” in the aisles.

“This happened maybe five times and there was a lot of angry booing and fuming from other families,” she wrote. “My daughter also pointed out that they were ruining her movie.”

The woman saw several other mothers “saying something” to their children, so as the children passed the poster she also “politely” asked them if they could find their seats.

However, they did not listen and instead “jumped in front of the cinema”.

“Then I noticed the woman a few rows ahead stood up and sat on the bottom step, watching the boys running in a circle and yelling at the movie screen,” she wrote.

It was then that the poster decided to “calmly stand up and run out to find a waiter,” who then “asked parents to seat their children.”

However, when the mum finally arrived to pick up her children, she yelled at the poster for involving a member of staff, insisting they were “just babies”.

The poster was “not retaliating” because she didn’t want to cause a scene, which she felt was “unfair to all the other kids and parents watching.” Still, she felt her actions were justified, noting that the other parents there “had kids,” but no one was “running around screaming.”

She also pointed out that if a mom wants her kids to run around, she should take them to an early morning screening specifically for young kids — not a 5 p.m. show.

“In the last part of the movie she threw the kids into their seats and I didn’t see them because I didn’t have the other parents or family members saying anything,” she wrote, adding, “So it makes me wonder, even though they were all angry, were they ignoring this because they were babies?”

“I know that as parents we all dread seeing a movie for the first time in case our kids become stupid,” the woman concluded, seeking advice.

People in the comments agreed with the woman, noting that she was “very reasonable in the way she handled it.”

“It is irresponsible of children’s parents to allow this kind of behavior in theaters. You did the right thing by getting a waiter,” one person wrote.

Another netizen added: “They are certainly not babies and this is not a playground. Also, if babies are disturbing other people, they shouldn’t be in the cinema anyway. What a ridiculous response.” “If they can’t watch a movie without disturbing other people (especially like this, walking around, screaming, banging on the screen?), they shouldn’t be in the cinema.”

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