Seriously who takes babies to the theatre?!

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Went to the theatre last night, 2 babies and their mothers were there. Cue a fair amount of noise throughout. It’s not a mother and baby group?!! People are trying to enjoy and concentrate. Don’t worry l checked and it wasn’t a “baby / children showing” or something like that. Some people are so self absorbed and entitled

I probably shouldn’t write this in AIBU. Because l really don’t think l am! My partner and the woman sat next to me who l don’t know were unhappy as well 😡

Many many years ago my friend took her six week old to the opera and just sort of .... swathed a bit of coat around dc all was fine, baby slept, they were in a box and nobody was the wiser... until an usher saw her whip a boob out of her dress at the interval to breastfeed... it didn’t end in quite such a dignified way.

Isn't this part of the thing that oppresses us as women? Fair enough if Mum is adamant she is not going to take a walk in the corridor when things are reaaalllly bad. That's a bit selfish.

No. No and no.
Bollocks. It is about people being selfish. It is not fair to take a baby to a theatre or performance that is not specifically for babies. I had to sit out and miss a LOT of things that i loved doing pre-babies due to lack of local family and ability to pay baby sitters. Now mine are grown up and i can do all those things. But suddenly I'm being disturbed at restaurants by other people's kids running around and being loud; at the cinema (memorably at a horror film at midnight); at the theatre (to be fair they sneaked it in with a sling and were told to leave as soon as the staff noticed).

Just bloody stop it.

I was baffled at the mum who brought a tiny (it sounded like a brand new born) to a classical concert at the Barbican! I said to my friend that she was being a bit optimistic. Give the woman her due, she was out of there at the first squeak, thankfully before it had actually got started!

My free cinema tickets were emailed today! Make sure you all complain.
Shy bairns get nowt as they say..

These parents will be the ones that ruin school plays and whose children will grow using phones in theatres YANBU

It reminds me of some years ago when a mother had brought her two children with her to watch a film in English. The film was also available dubbed, by the way, so I never understood why she took them to watch the English version. Anyway, the cinema was pretty full and she was sitting a few seats away from me and my fiancé with her children. I kept hearing her talking, and everyone around her, including me, kept giving them looks. I thought she was going to eventually shut up, but when I realised she was actually translating the film to her children I got annoyed with the idea of putting up with her for the rest of the film. So I loudly told her we could all hear her talk, and that it was highly disturbing. She ended up moving herself and her children to the area of the cinema where no one sits.