To take a 6 year old to Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Cinema film

[BabyofMine]

I was all set to take my six year old to see this in the half term but I’ve just found out it’s a 12 A. I know there’s some sexy dancing and some swear words but tbh my main concern was the length (it’s 3 hours!) and that I’d be taking her myself (her dad/my fiancé would normally always come to the cinema with us and he’s very good at keeping her quiet by taking her out for a few mins, distracting her with snacks or snuggles) there’s no way he wants to sit through 3 hours of Taylor.
Someone talked me out of taking her to see Barbie saying she was too young and I listened and regretted missing out on bonding with her over Barbie. Feel like I made her miss a pop culture moment!
I really didn’t expect Taylor to be a 12 A and tickets aren’t cheap so don’t want to end up walking out after an hour!!!

YABU - don’t take her she’s too young
YANBU - take her she’ll be fine

I’m taking my 7 year old. She’ll probably only last an hour but so be it, you don’t know unless you try.

I would take ear defenders and be prepared to leave if it gets a bit intense/loud/long for her but I would take her and give it a go. It is approx £12/£15 a ticket though.

It's nothing like a normal cinema trip, I took DD and as soon as the pop songs were on the girls all went down to the front to dance, about 100 children in our screen, they came back to the seats for the quiet songs.

The music is loud so if anyone around you is singing it drowns it out but perhaps take ear defenders. It really does (almost) feel. Like you are at a concert. It was the most bizarre cinema experience I've ever had but they all look like they were having a great time.

There were loads of little kids when I went

As for Barbie, it really wasn't for young children, after the first 20 minutes they would have been bored. It was a fantastic film but not cinema worthy for ayoung child. Perhaps take her to see it when it moves to the Kids Club, you won't mind having to leave if it only cost £1 or whatever your kids club is.

Thank you everyone! I especially hadn’t considered kids ear defenders, that’s a great idea.

It's worth knowing that cinemas have been told / are allowing normal rules not to be followed so as I mentioned above singing and dancing are to be expected but so was filming and being on devices - so you could take a device if she normally uses one to distract her if she gets bored but I don't think she will. If you are sat at the front I'd imagine that its annoying to have people dance infront of you if you weren't expecting it, unless you roll with it and sit right at the front so DD can dance in front of you. I was glad I was on the back row, but DD was old enough to gallivant with the others without being supervised.

Why would you want ear defenders? Either she wants to watch or she doesn’t. Muting the sound seems utterly pointless. Or am I missing something? We have them as I used them for the baby at the fireworks last year so he’d sleep through but it wouldn’t have occurred to me to take them when I take my 6YO to this. I know loads of kids that went to the actual tour in the states, some as young as 4, so watching it in the cinema is definitely fine! Barbie is totally different, it’s a total bore fest for that age as the ‘pop culture moment’ is way beyond them.

@InTheRainOnATrain because the sound is incredibly loud, much louder than a normal film screening as it's sustained loud noise throughout not just the action bits like a film (or I was sat under the speakers) and loud noises can damage children's hearing its why if you go to a festival lots of children will be wearing ear defenders.