Posted on 07/21/2012 11:45:25 PM PDT by Lmo56
Out of all of this horrible tragedy - I cannot help but ask myself the question.
The girl who was killed was 6 and there was a couple with 2 children aged 4 and under [thank God they were spared].
Not only was it past the childrens' bedtimes, but the content of the movie was wholly inappropriate for their ages.
If the mother of the 6 year-old had not taken her, she would still be alive. Just sayin' ...
Bomb, not shooting.
No difference for the killed and injured and their families, but a very different mindset in the perp.
Wiki: “After more than a week of testimony, the jury exonerated the school board and its employees. In its verdict the jury concluded that Kehoe “conducted himself sanely and so concealed his operations that there was no cause to suspect any of his actions; and we further find that the school board, and Frank Smith, janitor of the school building, were not negligent in and about their duties, and were not guilty of any negligence in not discovering Kehoe’s plan.”
We appear to have lost the ability to make such common-sense judgments.
Leni
Actually looking at Kehoe’s entire history should have raised red flags but hindsight is 20/20.
That one was trouble brewing from an early age.
Ledger's portrayal of the Joker made a LOT of adults squirm in their seats...NOT for kids. I believe many people confuse the Batman on film with that of the 60's TV show. Interesting to note that the Japanese villain of an early 40's 'Batman' movie serial met his doom in a pit of crocodiles...ick. Captain Marvel machine-gunned fleeing criminals IN THE BACK...circa 1943. He also threw another criminal off the roof of a tall building later in the same feature. The violence has ALWAYS been there...parents just had better judgement and more common sense in those days.
Of course, it would be twenty years later that the Communists finally succeeded in throwing G-d out of the classroom...
No one takes their kids anywhere expencting them to be shot an killed. That shouldn’t be the penalty for bad judgment. On the other hand, it is poor parently to take young children to violent,loud midnight showing of movies. The two things are preety much mutually exclusive.
Well, I've exhausted the subject and remain passionate that responsible parents should scope out today's action movies they're allowing their little darling to see, especially at midnight in a theater.
If gratuitous violence and gore has no effect on youngsters, then it's logical that all cereal and toy advertising is useless and a waste of money to run on TV.
Leni
You are absolutely right.
Last night I posted my comment defending parents who bring young children out to movie theaters and then went to bed without reading replies. What a disappointment to wake up this morning and find out that so many people here equate letting children stay up late with child abuse or poor parenting skills. My youngest child is 15 and her older brothers are 20, 23 and 26. We *always* kept those kids up until 11 pm when they were under the age of five. They just slept in until late morning. Why? I am a morning person and I homeschool my kids. Having the baby sleeping in the morning while I taught the kids made life a lot easier for me. The baby/young child got all the sleep he or she needed. Shouldn’t that be all that matters? Why should there be some “correct” bedtime for a child? It is beyond me why anyone would care what time a child goes to bed if he is getting the amount of sleep he needs. There is nothing moral or immoral about a bedtime.
It’s amazing to me that some here are equating letting kids go to bed late with parents who don’t discipline their children and who work too much, etc. How in the world can you draw all of those conclusions from looking at what time a parent sends their kids to bed? That’s crazy and defies logic.
This whole discussion comes across like a bunch of old people saying, “Back in my day, this is how we did it, so that’s the right way to do it.” And I’m 50 years old. I feel like some kind of radical young parent now, lol.
I am NOT addressing the issue of the content of the movie and a six year old child. These kinds of movies hold no interest for me, so I don’t know what was in it. My husband and I were very conservative when it came to what movies we let our kids watch.
I am on vacation, traveling around the country with my daughter right now, so if I don’t reply to anyone, don’t take it as me dropping out of a discussion that I can’t handle. I just happen to have a few minutes to be reading my favorite website. I don’t usually post much here, but this topic struck a nerve with me.
Now, off to the Mall of America with my very excited daughter. I’ll make sure she gets to bed at a decent time tonight so you don’t all accuse me of abusing her. :-)
Good catch. "Expensive" was a careless omission, particularly because it would have fit within the arbitrary 25-word ground rule. ;o)
“If the mother of the 6 year-old had not taken her, she would still be alive. Just sayin’ ...”
Well, since you knew this was going to happen and there was this chance that little kids were going to be killed WHY DIDN’T YOU WARN PEOPLE????? /s
Idiot.
What more can you possibly say to parents who think their baby's dirty diapers don't stink?
When my husband and i were first married, we were broke - with a baby. Once a week the local theater had dollar movie night for a 9PM showing of popular new releases.
We would bring our daughter and she would sleep through the whole thing in her car seat. We finally had to stop when she was about a year old. She wanted her bed, not a car seat and would fuss. That was the end of it.
I remember my mother taking me to the late showing of movies until I was seven. She would bring a sleeping bag and a pillow and I would sleep on the floor. (It was the 70’s. People were a lot less picky back then.) Of course, placing a child on a dirty movie theater floor (even with a sleeping bag) would be horrifying now; but back then, it was no big deal.
I slept just fine through Dirty Harry.
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I'm no breeder nor do I attend theaters. There: direct answers, no ancillary BS included. Now answer mine directly with no ancillary BS included. Where did you get your erroneous information that I am and do? What relevance do your questions have to the topic being discussed? |
Fortunately, an inebriated movie patron did not step on your head on the way to the restroom. Otherwise, emergency evacuation regulations would prohibit this from occurring today, spoiling all the fun for sleepy kids at nighttime movies.
It was the 1970’s. We didn’t use seatbelts. Kids flew down steep hills in home-made buggies. We knocked the dirt off carrots and ate them raw out of the ground. Dogs licked our faces. Parents smoked around us and we played with candy cigarettes. We would sit in trees all day, watching ants crawling up and down the bark without neighbors calling the cops because they were afraid we were ‘hurting the tree’.
It was a different time.
A young couple taking two sleepy kids to a late movie is the least shocking part of this story.
(For me, raising kids was a joy. Dealing with busybody idiots and this hysterical ‘safety’ society was the stressful part.)
Pity.
Pity.
It takes a village
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