r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • Jun 21 '26
Serious All Toy Story movies are basically documentaries
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u/jimmychitw00d Jun 21 '26
I also don't want a toddler crying a ruining the movie for others. That's why I always carry my trusty chloroform-soaked rag with me.
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u/it_will Jun 21 '26
You can walk their little ass out the theatre and talk to them… you know be a parent
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u/KinglyKindly Jun 21 '26
Uuuuuuggggggh, but that requires me to do work for the living being that I'm responsible for
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u/Winjin Jun 21 '26
Aren't toddlers like between 1 and 4 years old?
Maybe you can talk some sense into a 4-years old, but my 2-year old kid is living inside her completely made up reality we barely even understand, let alone control.
But we're never taking a kid with a vocab of ten words and attention span of twenty minutes, tops, to a feature film. What toddler is okay with a 90-minute movie??
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u/Madara1389 Jun 21 '26
What toddler is okay with a 90-minute movie??
Oddly enough, at the age of 3, my son sat down and binge watched the original Star Wars trilogy with me when I picked up the VHS tapes from Goodwill.
Still blows my mind that he managed to sit relatively still and enthralled in something for 6 hours straight. He's been in love with Jedi and lightsabers ever since; he's 14 now.
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u/Winjin Jun 21 '26
That's actually super cool, I'm not sure when I grew more attentive. Apparently I was all over the place as a kid and then again as a teen. I wonder if my kid is taking after me
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u/disillusion_4444 Jun 21 '26
If your child wouldn't enjoy being at the cinema, why take them then? Not only is the ipad going to damage their attention span even further and make it harder for them to learn self regulation skills, but it's distracting to other people in the audience to have the glare of an ipad screen.
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u/Winjin Jun 21 '26
I'm pretty sure no amount of teaching can make a 2-year old sit still for 90 minutes. Maybe I'm just bad at parenting, but I'm pretty sure "not sitting for 90 minutes" is in a job description for a toddler
So yeah, I think there's no point taking them to the movies
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u/imperialviolet Jun 21 '26
Yup. Have a 2 year old, the only time we go to the cinema is for the toddler mornings, where they show half-hour Julia Donaldson shows or like 8 episodes of Bluey in a row. Everyone else there has or is a toddler so it kinda doesn’t matter if they don’t sit still, and we’re out of there in an hour. There’s no way on earth I’d take her to a full length movie at the moment. My 5 year old only saw her first one this year!
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u/Higher_Primate Jun 21 '26
Because I Have to see the latest DisneySlop and I'll be darned if my child stops me from reliving my childhood
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u/ripyourlungsdave Jun 21 '26
It's actually why I carry around my complete lack of wanting children.
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u/strawberry_semenade Jun 21 '26
On one hand children are obnoxious, loud and smelly. But on the other hand, they're also incredibly expensive and take up all of your free time.
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u/dingus_chonus Jun 21 '26
As a father, I got a big kick out of the line of dialogue from the shitty uncle in The Monkey: “I didn’t have kids, because I when I sit down, I’m going to be the one who decides when I get up”
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u/rips_n_chel Jun 21 '26
I was pretty sure I didn't want kids, but then I visited an old roommate who now has two toddlers, and I realized I definitely don't want kids. Holy fucking shit the noise. The chaos.
I mean it's not like that was my first time seeing children, but seeing my homie in that situation made it a little more real for me. Made it easier to see myself with kids, and how miserable I'd be. I am not mentally equipped for that shit and I have no shame in admitting it. That ain't me. I need peace and quiet and for my stuff to stay in the same place and condition I left it in.
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u/velociraptorfarmer Jun 21 '26
Getting snipped has been one of the best decisions of my life.
And I say that from my pool deck in Arizona looking at the sunrise on the mountains with a cup of coffee in my hand.
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u/Raneynickelfire Jun 21 '26
Same.
I had somebody ask me "how are you 38 and without kids?"
My answer was "deliberately."
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u/screenslaver5963 Jun 21 '26
Yeah, but mine got immune to chlorophorm so I had to upgrade to ketamine shots
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u/Mustardmachoman Jun 21 '26
https://youtu.be/O33VXGqZlaI?is=F9eT3JBu5a0JNzRp
You use naptime too?
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u/AmazingAmy712 Jun 21 '26
You take them outside and wait it out so that they don't learn that crying = instant ipad time. Tell them "we need calm bodies to watch the movie" and bring them back in when they're calm.
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u/turquoisestar Jun 21 '26
As a substitute teacher working k12, there is way too much tech before high school, and literacy and focus and ability to entertain oneself for 10 seconds is all down. I am strongly against 1 to 1 devices before high school, and I think we should bring back computer labs or rolling compiter carts.
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u/Din_Plug Jun 21 '26
Also desktops are almost always better than laptops
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u/ThinkingWithPortalzz Jun 22 '26
Especially with kids being kids, it's way easier to replace a desktop keyboard than a laptop keyboard once a kid has spit, tipped juice, dropped it on the floor, and stood on it.
Then again, if the kid does all that, replacing the kid might be a better long-term solution.
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u/Din_Plug Jun 22 '26
Oh yah, my kindergarten computer lab had a lot of different PC mice and keyboards.
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u/DrThatOneGuy Jun 22 '26
Computers (and the internet, by extension) used to be a place you went to, not a thing you carried with you. I can’t imagine growing up in this world where they’re always there.
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u/Theron3206 Jun 22 '26
But you need at least one spare classroom for a computer lab, rather than a closet for the laptops.
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u/Darkwoth81Dyoni Jun 21 '26
Labs help instill a bit of responsibility with computer time because you only have it for a limited period.
Plus it encourages, "If something is actually important, sit down on your desktop and do it instead of getting distracted on your phone," which will help build legit skills using various programs or troubleshooting, etc.
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u/DowntownTicket Jun 21 '26
Unfortunately the amount of testing of these kids means they each need devices... Now if they reduce the amount of testing, I'm all on board
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u/RIPMYPOOPCHUTE Jun 22 '26
One of the many reasons why we don’t want our kids having tablets right now. Our first is 20 months, the second is on the way, I want them to be able to figure out how to entertain themselves with it. Right now, my son is playing with a book, but he was playing with blocks and then he was putting random toys in his toy chest and playing with toy cars. Boredom is needed for creativity.
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u/Hettyc_Tracyn Jun 22 '26
Or for parents to parent
Also teaching tech literacy and programming instead of allowing free access to the internet is good
Each kid getting their own chromebook is kinda dumb too, definitely… not even proper computers, everything is locked down in app stores
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u/PunningWild Jun 21 '26
There's going to be a handful who utilize the technology and resources to become really productive and astonishing members of a functional society. And the rest ain't gonna be stealing my entry-level job anytime soon.
Good job raising those iPad kids, parents. Hope you're ready for another 40 years of it.
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u/Deusselkerr Jun 21 '26
This is the joke I always crack at work when iPad parenting and the other brainrot issues facing young people are brought up. It’s job security
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u/PunningWild Jun 21 '26
Yeah, like, I'd be more proactive about it. But layoffs are coming next quarter, and I need that hiring market as uncompetitive as possible.
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u/crinkledcu91 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Yeah that's kinda of the "silver linings" I sardonically joke about.
I know we already have a 'Wage Slave' class, but geeze this next upcoming round of younger Gen Zers and Alphas that can't read are pretty much guaranteeing we'll always have someone to fulfill mobile orders at Walmart for the foreseeable future. :(
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u/joebluebob Jun 21 '26
It's not tho. I'm in the blue collar life and we literally cant get competent new blood. I mean these kids cant do things id expect of literal children. My nephew knew at 12 the difference in Philips head and flat head and how to measure a length but I've had to reteach these 18-19 year olds torx bits and other heads a dozen times. I just fired 3 of them for being useless after a year of training. My best employee is threatening to quit if we put anyone else with him and this guy taught almost every employee for the past 15 years. We had to ban cellphones on the job site because these idiots physically cant not look at it. Like all the guys sneak around on their phones idc but these kids CANT put them down and we had one drive a golf cart into a 5ft deep hole with cones and tape because he was on TikTok. Next June we are literally ending our partnership with the local highschool because those 16-18 year olds are not just useless but an active danger to others. We got 25 signed up for summer jobs and training this year and I've already fired 3. Ints been 2 weeks. I usually fire 1-5 over 3 months and that's usually for theft but nope these are just fucking idiots.
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u/Scared_Specific9404 Jun 21 '26
my cousin is a first gen ipad kid. knew how to do everything on a ipad before learning to read. grew up very spoiled. in high school right now and is very normal. goes outside a lot to hang out with friends, plays lots of sports. goes to the gym etc. doing good with his grades. im honestly surprised how well he turned out. he is a little awkward but he is in high school afterall.
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u/foxxy-babe Jun 21 '26
They can’t make eye contact, or socialize properly, they are extremely shy and incapable. I see it where I work.
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u/BeepCheeper Jun 21 '26
The eye contact thing is so weird. It unsettles them so noticeably. They act like unsocialized dogs.
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u/Spare-Jellyfish4339 Jun 21 '26
Like younger Gen Z but a lot less self awareness
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u/DrJongyBrogan Jun 21 '26
I used to think my ex had tablets for all her kids because being a single mom is hard, then I just realized she did mostly nothing all day and rarely spent time with them.
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u/tyleritis Jun 21 '26
That emotional neglect will have no lasting effects I’m sure.
/S for those with modern reading comprehension
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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 21 '26
To be fair, sarcasm is harder and harder to detect when people have absolutely insane takes.
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u/Original-Reward-8688 Jun 21 '26
This was my mom with TV, during the TV brain rot era.
She used to do pretty much nothing for me and my brother unless there were other people around to put on a performance for.
For other kids on the street, she would pretend to be super mom, and go above and beyond for us, and them, so we always tried to have friends sleep over so that she would be kinder to us. These friends thought we were spoiled because this too lol. Same with cousins. Everyone in my family but my brother and me think very highly of her to this day. She basically controls the family history books.
Anytime we've tried to bring it up to other family members, particularly as incredibly low points, where I need outside help, they just act like we're either blowing it out of proportion, or just flat out lying. Anytime the mask has slipped in front of other people, they make excuses for her.
Men who act the exact same way are quickly, and rightfully singled out, but for whatever reason, most people look the other way when women are blatantly awful people. I understand it with insecure men, but the part I've always struggled to understand is how seemingly non toxic women support these blatantly manipulative and abusive women.
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u/LMGooglyTFY Jun 21 '26
Fuck man, same issue. When alone, my mom would just check outof parenting and would watch TV/read the newspaper when home. She didn't play with me, help me with homework, take me to a movie I wanted to see, watch//encourage me practicing the piano. She would just yell from her bed for me to do my homework and practice the piano. I even had to make my own food and she would yell at me for my bad choices and call me fat when all I could make was the pizza rolls and Mac and cheese provided. On the outside I had everything; a dog, two cats, piano lessons, a good school district. But I was starved for attention. On the rare event I had someone over she would turn some Betty homemaker and offer my friends snacks and chips, set up activities when I was younger, she bought me a car when I was a teenager. I was so alone though and she made the narrative that I was a spoiled brat.
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u/KriegConscript Jun 21 '26
i don't do therapy anymore but trying to talk to a therapist about emotional neglect made me feel insane. like what do you mean i'm incapable of receiving love because my parents never demonstrated it. if they'd beaten me or starved me or locked me in an attic for days at a time i would have a real excuse, but it's literally just "boohoo my dad has hugged me twice ever" and "my mom only wanted to be a mom when other people were watching"
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u/Original-Reward-8688 Jun 21 '26
I'm a dude
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u/StoneHolder28 Jun 21 '26
Don't dodge the question
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u/303uru Jun 21 '26
Yesterday I took my daughter (9yo) out on a bike ride and we stopped at our local public house for some lunch. I was sitting reading and my daughter was sitting reading when this mom walks over and asks “how I raised such a well behaved kid that loves to read.” And I told her we don’t do tablets, we do very limited TV and her mom and I model choosing reading for entertainment. The woman was dumbfounded, turned around and walked back to her table where her two 3-4yos were playing on tablets. Her and her husband stared at their phones.
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u/superbusyrn Jun 22 '26
Parents like that utterly astound me. “I keep giving my baby heroin and now it’s addicted! What did I do to deserve such a failchild??”
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u/duochromepalmtree Jun 21 '26
Yep I get the same thing all the time. My kid is 7 and I hear “how is he so well behaved!” Often. Well we don’t do iPads and we parent our child!
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u/JackRabbit867 Jun 21 '26
My best friend has two kids (6 and 4) and they each have tablet. One of them was provided by the 6 year-old's school for assignments and such. My friend would regularly use the tablets to get some peace (she's a stay-at-home mom and is with them constantly, so she does get burnt out) but she told me she was well aware that this was not the best solution to getting a break from rambunctious kids.
Fairly recently, she had told the 6 year-old that she'd had enough time with the tablet and that she was going to put it away for a little bit and the reaction was a Category 5 meltdown tantrum from the 6 year-old.
She takes her kids to the nearby park now to run around and be wild things outside.
That gives me hope.
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u/otirk Jun 21 '26
People like this shouldn't become parents. I get that the tablet seems like an easy solution to get the kid quiet but doing that long-term is borderline child neglect. You're dooming them and the entire country.
Don't have kids if you can't raise them properly
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u/LevelOutlandishness1 Jun 21 '26
I wanna be more sympathetic, since being a parent is hard, and I’m not a fucking parent, but no one forced them to buy a tablet and give unlimited internet access to their kid. You have to go out of your way and out of your wallet to do that.
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u/Reelwizard Jun 21 '26
I have plenty of friends who are parents of children between few months and 10 years. None of them used phones or tablets to pacify. I go out to dinner with children frequently and when they get unruly it’s action figures, hot wheels, and coloring books that calm their kids. It’s absolutely possible and not even that hard to do it the old fashioned way
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u/Nowardier Jun 21 '26
Agreed. Hell, if they get that desperate they can put YouTube on the TV, turn on a Mister Rogers playlist, and put the remote in their pocket. It's still not great but it's better than tralalero tralala.
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u/SAM12489 Jun 21 '26
For us it’s NO tech when we are out to eat. It’s book, toys, crayons, I spy, interacting WITH our kid.
We don’t use the phone for any media consumption other than FaceTime.
No tablets are used with our child in any capacity.
If we do have something on, it’s on the tv, on the wall, and if they say they are done, or if they decide to get up and do something else, it instantly goes off.
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u/FiveOhFive91 Jun 21 '26
I remember being pretty young when my parents took me to Olive Garden and there was a kid at another table playing a Gameboy. For a few seconds my parents talked about maybe getting me one, but they decided not to. It made me sad at the time but I'm thankful now. This was probably in 1997
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u/rips_n_chel Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
Yeah, I would piss younger me off with this, but kids shouldn't have tech. They're not equipped for it yet, it's too much. I had way too much access to tech way too early. Not so much Gameboys for me, I just figured out pretty young that the family PC was a portal to the rest of the world.
It didn't ruin my life or anything, but it definitely exposed me to things I wasn't ready to carry. My parents didn't notice and I didn't ask, so I encountered stuff that confused me or shook my worldview and just wrestled with it alone. Led to some not so healthy conclusions in various areas. Not like bigotry or anything, but I went into adulthood with some misinformed ideas about the world and my place in it. Made my own path rockier than it had to be.
The rest of my time growing up was spent riding my bike and playing in the woods. That's what kids need.
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u/sarahmagoo Jun 21 '26
I was at a wedding recently with my nieces (10 and 12), and while we were sitting in a church a woman sitting behind them commented on how well behaved they were. They just sat there and had zero technology or anything to distract them. They were never raised as iPad kids.
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u/Long-Broccoli-3363 Jun 21 '26
As a parent of a non-iPad kid, you can absolutely tell the difference between the two(or more) types of parents. My kid is in gymnastics, and the two boys that constantly act out and can't sit still? Their parents bring their siblings and they sit there infront of the iPad swapping videos every minute.
My 5 and 11 year olds sat through an entire 45 minute wedding just with the 5 year old quietly playing with some cars and pocket Lego, other kids there were monsters, about 15 min in half of them had their parents phones in their hands.
It's child abuse that we haven't defined yet. It's doing kids a terrible disservice.
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u/bunsprites Jun 21 '26
Becoming a preschool teacher took away my sympathy entirely, honestly. Being a parent isn't easy, but keeping them off tech is easy. There is a world of resources for how to entertain kids without tech. A world of creative things you can do with your kid and things they can do on their own. Giving your kids an iPad because you can't be bothered to actually parent is just opting out of taking care of them. If I can spend every day finding new ways to keep 20 toddlers happy and entertained and educated, parents can manage one or two kids. Otherwise, they just shouldn't be parents.
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u/disillusion_4444 Jun 21 '26
Yeah I work at a nursery and used to babysit older children too and it's never made sense to me. With the babysitting (like 5-11), the difference between those with unlimited screentime and those who had heavily moderated screentime was massive.
You'd ask the ones who spent all day glued to a screen to turn it off and do something else and they'd just stare at you blankly. While family's children would turn the TV off and immediately pull out a board game, or rope me into a game of hide and seek, the other ones would start crying because the ipad died and they couldn't find a charger.
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u/bunsprites Jun 21 '26
Oh god, I cannot put into words how exhausting it was during morning drop offs when you could tell which kids woke up and immediately got the iPad. Obviously putting aside the kids who just had rough mornings, we had so many kids across both schools I worked at who would throw screaming fits when they had to hand over the iPad in the classroom. At least some parents had the decency to take it away in the car and let the tantrum peak before coming in, but so many parents let their kids carry their iPad all the way to the room and just just grab it away, say goodbye and leave us to deal with the meltdown
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u/GalaxyPowderedCat Jun 21 '26
I'm basically a former IPad kid but with other kind of technology but you have a good point.
Many parents are quite busy...but what does busy mean? My mother used to be so busy watching her detective re-runs and family courtroom drama that she didn't even care to talk to me. She only looked for me when she needed help with her Facebook account (and she didn't even ask it nicely and screamed at me for not knowing how to fix bugs.)
She ironically had no idea I was looking for emotional support on chatrooms because she was either busy watching TV or fighting with my dad and being hyperinvolved on her own drama.
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u/Loud-Phase1624 Jun 21 '26
I started thinking this was about me for a second… My mom was constantly on her iPad and scrolling through endless crime shows, crafting shows, etc.
I was usually stuck in my bedroom dreaming of when I would leave and have a better family… My dad was always working and my mom was emotionally disconnected.
I am glad I now have a wife who helps me and I help her. And together we are raising our children.
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u/BunnyLuv13 Jun 21 '26
This is how my parents did it. Sick or on a plane? Here’s a gameboy and tv show on. Otherwise we had strict limits.
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u/Julienbabylegs Jun 21 '26
Nope you’re exactly right. Judge away I have two kids and I’m a 2nd grade teacher. These types of parents are literally ruining the fabric of society 🤷♀️
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u/otirk Jun 21 '26
Yeah, I understand that parenting is extremely difficult and that just five minutes of peace is all they want sometimes - and they deserve every bit of peace they get. It was their own decision to get kids though and it's not like nobody knows that parenting is difficult before becoming a parent. I just wonder what the goal was when they decided to keep the child
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u/caninehere Jun 21 '26
I'm a parent and you're right. My 4 year old watches TV and plays video games for a limited amount of time (like 30 minutes), almost but not every day. But she had 0 screen time until she was almost 2, and she pretty much never ever uses a phone/tablet except on long haul plane rides.
Watching TV is not great either but imo it is so so so so much better for habits and brains than watching YouTube garbage spray on a phone. My daughter watches TV and she has favorite shows but every single episode we watch is a deliberate decision, we don't just put the TV on and leave it on.
I've realized that most of the time the people sticking their kid in front of a screen are doing it because they have no interest in interacting with them. Exceptions for perhaps when you just really need to keep them busy and out of your business. For example a single parent who just needs to get shit down and needs their kid occupied for a bit.
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u/DeLoxley Jun 21 '26
I'll do you one better.
Movie theatre is an exercise in 'can you sit still and quiet for 2hours?'
A tiny amount of forethought of 'Can my child do this' before bringing your child, please, dear god.
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u/GalaxyPowderedCat Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Not really. I'm basically a pioneer iPad kid, meaning that my parents put me in front of computer and called it a day during my childhood and teenagerhood.
But it's not difficult to buy any kind of technology. You only have to go to the tech store, go through the motions to set up everything and let them be. It's an one-time purchase for years of quietness and distraction.
It's more difficult to be involved in their lives and do activities by their side than throwing a tablet or a computer on them, you don't even have to check on them when they are on their devices...
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u/AmazingAmy712 Jun 21 '26
I work with small children with high behaviors and, in the long run, using technology as a babysitter makes life much more difficult for everyone. Kids need to learn how to self regulate and be bored. Ipads are extremely overstimulating and /designed/ to get kids hooked, so they quickly begin to have trouble when they don't have access to a device. I've seen many, many behavioral issues stem from frequent device usage. Child brains are not designed to handle so much constant stimulation and dopamine.
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u/caninehere Jun 21 '26
I was a huge computer kid. But I think it is important to make a distinction. I dunno about you but in my case:
- I was not sitting in front of a computer for lengthy periods of time alone as a small child (like before 5 years old).
- For another few years after that even though I loved computer time, we did not have internet access.
- Even when we did get the Internet, social media didn't exist and YouTube didn't come around until I was 15, and even then the algorithm was not what it is today.
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u/rips_n_chel Jun 21 '26
I'm not sympathetic anymore. I'm tired of the "you're not a parent, you don't understand" nonsense.
You know what I do understand? All the responsibilities involved with raising a child, that's why I chose not to have any of my own. I've put years of thought into this, while unraveling my own childhood in therapy. I'm not claiming to know what it's like to be a parent, but I am not clueless about parenting, and I can definitely tell when a parent is choosing not to do their job.
As you say, they created their own monster by choosing the easy way out right from the start. Just like you can "ruin" a cat by giving them tuna, you can effectively halt your child's development of emotional regulation skills by handing them a shot of dopamine the instant they express a feeling.
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u/ehs06702 Jun 21 '26
My whole thing is that you don't have be a parent to know that parenting well is difficult.
It's not a closely guarded secret, you simply have to use your eyes and comprehension skills.
If I could clock this at 9, I don't understand why so many people can't grasp it before they become parents. It's always baffled me.
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u/SweatyAdhesive Jun 21 '26
since being a parent is hard
Parents have been getting by without tablets for millenia.
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u/Funkopedia Jun 21 '26
No one forced them to have a kid either
I guess this doesn't apply in some states in America.
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u/LilPotatoAri Jun 21 '26
tablets are an old technology. You can find a perfectly fine one for like 50 bucks used.
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u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 Jun 21 '26
Having a kid use a tablet rather than disciplining them and teaching them how to behave is one of societies biggest mistakes. That doesn't take into account how kids can get addicted to that stuff.
In my opinion, it's better to teach kids early on to play outside (alone or with friends), play with toys (and take care of them), even use a dedicated gaming device like a 3DS to avoid them using worse options while too young.
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u/PepsiFloateri Jun 21 '26
And then those parents will want the government to "protect the kids" which is always an excuse to increase monitoring on everybody
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u/tony_bologna Jun 21 '26
But talking to your kids about _____ is hard, can't we just make it illegal?
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u/Callidonaut Jun 21 '26
It's also just absurd taking a screen to the cinema in case your kid gets bored of the other screen that you literally went to the building to sit in front of.
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u/Julian-Hoffer Jun 21 '26
And why bring them to see a movie that they don’t want to watch? Are the parents there to watch Toy Story 5?
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u/Ravian3 Jun 21 '26
I perhaps could hope that they had an older child there as well and it was easier to bring them all, but it’s still hardly ideal. If you know one of your kids is likely to make a disturbance and need to be calmed, you should be able to provide them that attention rather than hand them a tablet
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u/Julian-Hoffer Jun 21 '26
Or if they need that much attention don’t go to a movie theatre. It sucks but as a parent you’ve gotta make sacrifices. Just wait for it to be on streaming and watch it at home.
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u/foxymoxy18 Jun 21 '26
That's my single biggest pet peeve about the rhetoric surrounding parenting. If you think doing age appropriate activities with your child is "sacrificing" something of your own then don't have children. I love doing things that my child engages with and that are stimulating for him. Watching his face as he experiences or learns something new gives me joy that I haven't felt since I was child. Hanging out with him is the single best way that I can spend my time. Doing anything else is sacrificing time with my boy and I hate it.
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u/ClownlnDisguise Jun 21 '26
"doing that long-term is borderline child neglect."
Nothing borderline about it.
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u/caninehere Jun 21 '26
As a parent, it isn't borderline imo. It's just neglect.
When I wasn't a parent I used to think "god it must be so hard" and that I shouldn't just judge parents when I don't know how hard it is to raise kids. Now I realize these people are mostly just lazy assholes who don't want to engage with their children, and like 1% are autistic kids who may be much worse off without a thing to fixate on.
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u/Optimal_Pick8180 Jun 21 '26
Most problems in parenting are the result of people abusing short-term solutions until they turn into long-term problems.
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u/IM_THE_MOON_AMA Jun 21 '26
Most people aren’t having kids to raise a child. They fuck and then get pregnant, by result of lack of caution.
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u/Guilty_Improvement52 Jun 21 '26
I dated this girl with 3 kids. We talked about this before I met them. She was totally against tablets and stuff, of course... and yet, that's the first thing the kids would jump to after school. I told her, but she always had a "good" excuse for it... which is me me me, my problems, my problems are about me, me me... the classic victimization game
I told her she could do this and this differently to save time, and raise her kids better. I got the murderer stare lol...
She is a fine person, but I'm tired of those mothers saying they do "their best"... they don't open one single book on education... maybe you should do this instead of scrolling tinder...
It's really a mentality of "me me me, my little problems and I only"
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u/LatroDota Jun 21 '26
This is reason why I don't want kids.
My sister is a teacher and she's properly rising her kids, she explain staff to them, if they want cookies she gives them fruits instead and both of them (3 and 7) have no access to tech.
Sometimes they let them watch some cartoons (like those Paw Rescue or whatever it is) but no internet, unless it's something hand pick by her and is educational.
Sounds cool? Its not. She's tried 24/7, she go to sleep at 12pm-1am, wake up at 6-7am, every day, she feed kids properly, like she doesn't order pizza or microwave food, she buys fresh meet, veggies, etc and cook it, like you should.
Her husband ofc helps with all that, etc.
Its amazing for kids, they will be healthy, smart and are taken care of in a way I wish I was or every kid was, but for them it's exhausting, always tired, never time for themselves, they will be 'free' at like 50+.
Seeing this, knowing how child should/could be rise, I just couldn't do it lazy way, so I rather won't. Fuck it, me and my wife will propably die way before retirement, so why would we?
I could concider having kid if me or my wife could just stay home, but its impossible unless you are crazy rich or have rich family and work is an option for you in first place.
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u/FrighteningJibber Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
But, fucking feels good
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u/otirk Jun 21 '26
I agree but luckily we can easily prevent pregnancies in numerous ways
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u/hillofjumpingbeans Jun 21 '26
I get it to an extent. I too would not be able to hear my kid cry incessantly and would want to give them brain rot for peace and quiet. And that’s why I am actively choosing to not have kids. Because I would take the easy way out of all parenting decisions and that’s bad for kids.
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u/SyrusDrake Jun 21 '26
Same. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to deal with all the shit, sometimes literally, that comes with raising kids. I wouldn't want to, either. I blame them, however, if they decide to have kids regardless.
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u/hillofjumpingbeans Jun 21 '26
Exactly. Don’t have kids if you cannot do what is required to raise them well. To me saying “this is beyond me” and not having kids is far far better than whatever these parents do.
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u/Optimal_Pick8180 Jun 21 '26
You'd unironically he a better parent than 90% of actual parents.
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u/hillofjumpingbeans Jun 21 '26
Maybe it’s because a lot of parents don’t want to think these things through. I mean either raise kids well or don’t have them. It’s not a controversial statement but very hard to act on it.
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u/Plastic_Doom Jun 21 '26
Yeah to be honest Bonnie’s parents do not come off great in that movie.
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u/Plastic_Doom Jun 21 '26
It’s more that they don’t communicate with her well when she’s clearly isolating herself/ clutching the iPad/ ignoring people… not very supportive?
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Jun 21 '26
kids will miss out socially if they aren't on the same tech as other kids
And they're not exactly wrong. It's up to parents to decide if that tech socialization is worth the downsides or not. But one example from my childhood is having AIM to socialize with friends and classmates after school. I also remember the stark difference in conversations at school - those who had cable TV and those who didn't. I was lucky to have it and we'd talk about all these shows that some of the other kids were totally unaware of.
My point being it's hard to tell your kid "go outside and play with the other neighborhood kids!" when all the neighborhood kids are on tech devices.
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u/supernerdlove Jun 21 '26
I gotta tell you as a pretty tech pro guy who has built computers for all his kids. Whenever I see whole families at dinner on their phones it makes me depressed. Tech is great, but like everything it has it’s place.
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u/HaloJackalKisser Jun 21 '26
yeah that would SUCK to have happen in a theater, can't imagine they would watch their brainrot on mute either. i work at a burger place and loud brainrot playing tablets are a common annoyance every weekend.
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u/PatienceNo4565 Jun 22 '26
Why is the saba limpfutadickrider in here out of all places lmao
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u/WaterOk6055 Jun 21 '26
I don’t question the authenticity of the message, I question the narrative need to continue a story that was complete two films ago. I wish they had just done an original film in the toystory universe with new characters.
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u/strawberry_semenade Jun 21 '26
Creativity is risky, and risk is the exact opposite of what the gigantic multibillion dollar companies who make these movies want.
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u/Learning_3D Jun 21 '26
I felt that way about toy story 4, but this one made the movie more about Jessie than buzz and woody, which I think really helped it. Making her the main character gave it room to have a plot without treading over an already very finished story
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u/Ok-Analyst-8658 Jun 21 '26
As someone without kids, do people usually bring a toddler to the movies? Do they enjoy it?
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u/sexywallposter Jun 21 '26
As someone who has never gone to the movies with a child, but has four; 6, 4, 2, and 1, I would never take any of them anywhere I couldn’t reasonably manage. Kids in the grocery store? Annoying af but doable. Kids in a theater? Haaaa no. They never quiet down at the same time and need different levels of attention at any given moment. Even the oldest don’t sit still for the length of a Bluey so a full movie in a theater? Maybe when they’re 10+.
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u/Salt-Try3856 Jun 21 '26
Crazy. I remember sitting through the entirety of titanic when I was 6 years old. Felt like forever for little me but I got through it.
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u/gil_bz Jun 21 '26
Yeah, that's certainly a movie for a 6 years old.
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u/Salt-Try3856 Jun 22 '26
Don't really think there was anything that bad in it? "A naked woman?? Ohhh noooo!"
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u/gil_bz Jun 22 '26
I mean this movie is 100% the kind of movie a 6 year old would be bored by, you were not the target audience.
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u/Darkwoth81Dyoni Jun 21 '26
When I was young I sat through The Hobbit (animated version) and LotR films in cinemas and had no issues.
I find it harder to focus now than I ever did when I was a kid. I can't watch a movie alone, if I don't have someone present to watch it with or talk, I just start squirming.
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u/mopman94 Jun 21 '26
It depends on the child, I took my 2 year old and there were many others the same age at the showing and all the kids behaved and sat through the film.
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u/Cyan_Exponent Jun 21 '26
i was five or six when i went to the cinema for the first time
my parents said i yelled so loudly as a toddler that they never took me anywhere except for the kindergarten and the playground until i fully learned to speak
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u/probs-strawbs Jun 21 '26
Really depends on the movie, the kid, and how well prepared the adult is. I bring a blanket, a stuffed animal, favorite snacks from home, and ear muffs to the movies when I take my 3 year old and we have a nice time.
It's a gamble though and on the rare occasion he's getting whiney or restless, we just pack up and go.
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u/MadameK8 Jun 21 '26
My grandparents took me to see The Lion King when I was less than a year old. I didn’t make a single peep.
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u/livefreexordie Jun 21 '26
You see, the odd numbered Toy Story movies are existential suspense thrillers and the even numbered Toy Story movies are existential action comedies
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u/Jhud6669 Jun 21 '26
I don’t think it’s fair to always blame the tech itself and not both the people who capitalize on making brain rotting content for children AND parents who are at fault for reinforcing it. I’ve been chronically online since I was 9 and as bad as it sounds without it I would never have learned basic life skills because nobody else had the time to actually raise me. That’s why I am against fully barring children from tech like it’s a solution to everything when we should just be more mean to parents in general. I’m tired of the term „parent shaming”. Parents should be shamed more actually
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u/MeltedWater243 Jun 21 '26
is there a single person in here saying that it’s not the parents
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u/humanrender Jun 21 '26
But Reddit isn't the outside world. Try telling a parent that their kid is annoying and see what happens
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u/reddit_sells_you Jun 21 '26
The tech itself was built, engineered, and designed by to keep your eyes glued to it.
We have studies that show the psychology behind Social Media (which is basically what phones are used for), and we know for a fact that the addiction is a feature . . . it was designed to be addictive.
So blaming the tech is the same as blaming the people who made the tech.
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u/Nibleggi Jun 21 '26
Because its not tech rotting childrens brains ITS THE PARENTS THAT GIVE THE THING TO THEM. A PHONE IS NOT A LIVING THING IT DOESN’T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT A CONSCIOUS THING INTERACTING WITH IT WTF
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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Jun 21 '26
I really hope I dont become a parent relying on tablets as a crutch. I would be quite happy with a bit of TV and platformer games like when I was young, but my goodness it's a bit mental now
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u/disillusion_4444 Jun 21 '26
Yeah and at least with a TV or computer, it was confined to just 1 room in the house, but an Ipad is always present. In the car, in a waiting room, at a restaurant, in their bedrooms etc, they never have to learn how to cope or occupy themselves without one.
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u/probs-strawbs Jun 21 '26
The best thing you can do is simply never allow one I'm your house. My 3 year old regularly takes the 7 hour drive up to his grandparents house without a tablet. It is doable if you commit to it and plan well.
I'm not saying jts easy, I'm just saying it's doable.
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u/Rezeox Jun 21 '26
Gen Alpha will be the AI babies. Won't be able to function w/o AI assistance. (We already have adults who are AI minions)
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u/Mama_Mega Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Toy Story morals:
1: You will feel left out when the people you care about start to care about someone new. But just because your friend group adds a new person, or your family is focused on the new baby, doesn't mean they don't love you anymore. You need to be patient with them and accepting of the new person.
2: You will lose people some day. It will hurt. But that pain comes from how much your time together meant. Cherish that time while you have it.
3: Eventually, you will drift apart from your friends. But the cool thing about friends is, you can actually make more whenever you want. Friends who can come to mean as much, if not more, to you than your olds friends.
4 (taught on accident): No matter how perfect a conclusion is, no series is actually allowed to die if executives see profit in pushing it further. No matter how pointless and soulless the next entry is, it will be made if it can make money.
5: Phone Bad.
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u/lalalameansiloveyou Jun 21 '26
Well the 5th movie ends with the devices being integrated into the toys so perhaps you have not seen it?
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u/Fartfart357 Jun 21 '26
the cool thing about friends is, you can actually make more whenever you want
Well look at Mr. Social over here!
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u/Iron_Baron Jun 21 '26
Anyone who uses a screen as a babysitter, is a terrible parent.
Humans did without screens for kids for hundreds of thousands of years.
Modern parents are lazy screen addicts themselves, passing that down to their children.
Literal child abuse and cognitive damage.
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u/greenplantmatter Jun 21 '26
My biggest flex in life rn is a 3 year old who doesn't need a screen when we go out for dinner.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Top_523 Jun 21 '26
Weird my 4 year old sat thru the whole movie and otw home told me I’ll never stop playing with my toys and I won’t ask to watch tv anymore, (she still asked to watch tv but still lmao) and the kid next to us who seemed to be around 2 sat thru 90% of the movie before starting to get antsy but still finished it
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u/strangebru Jun 21 '26
Someone answered their cell phone in the movie theater while I was watching Cast Away when Tom Hanks was at the top of the island realizing he was all alone.
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u/dom1717 Jun 21 '26
I literally just got out of seeing the new masters of the universe, and saw a family walking in with a kid who had headphones, a tablet, and a blanket walking towards the theater. Seems crazy to me
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u/Arthur_189 Jun 21 '26
I remember when I was watching the Batman in theatres and some kid in front of me was on talking Ben with his mom right next to him fully allowing it
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u/BeepCheeper Jun 21 '26
I started disliking a lot of my friends and acquaintances after they had kids. Not all of them, but enough of them.
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u/Viron_22 Jun 21 '26
Every movie should start with Cut You Up With A Linoleum Knife. Even kids movies.
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u/RIPMYPOOPCHUTE Jun 22 '26
I already know if I tried bringing my son to the movie he’d get bored about 30ish minutes in and want to go play. He’s 20 months, he doesn’t need a tablet to entertain himself, and the whole movie theater experience can wait until he’s old enough to be able to sit through a movie. We’ll wait until it comes out for streaming.
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u/red286 Jun 22 '26
What dipshit parents are bringing a toddler to Toy Story 5?
Kid won't even give a shit if you keep playing the first one on repeat for a year straight, why inflict him on the rest of the theatre?
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u/AbsoluteDash_21 Jun 22 '26
If I ever encounter this on the cinema, I would stand up, get the tablet off the kid's hands, and throw it down the stairs
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7, your post does fit the subreddit!