Have you heard about this little stroke of genius that some movie theaters are doing?

In this case, the Camera Cinemas, offers a daytime showing dedicated to parents with babies. Kids up to 4 y.o. are welcome for no charge. (They also offer a Diaper Date Night for the whole fam.)

Everyone brings their baby and you just know that it might get a little, lets just say, wild in there.

They show a regular adult movie (we saw Get Low with Robert Duvall and Bill Murray)–the only difference is that they didn’t turn the lights totally out when the movie started and the sound might not have been as loud as they sometimes crank it.

What a brilliant idea. Wins all the way around.

• Mom/dad get to go to the movies.
• Babies get to hang with mom/dad.
• No one has to worry about fidgety babies disrupting other people’s experience,
• movie theater gets more people to a Wednesday-noon showing of flick.

Love it!

My sister said when she went last time, there was a huge line of strollers lined up in the hallway leading up to the theater. She, hubby, and baby were stuck in the 2nd row since they didn’t get there earlier for better seats.

A couple of people laid out a blanket in the aisle for their kids to play on, some had their kids sleeping in the portable car seat, some just held theirs. If someone started getting fidgety, the parent would get up and walk around.

It was surprisingly quiet, considering. I’d been thinking I’d probably go to the grown up showing with my S.O. to fill in the gaps but I hardly missed anything.

Every once in a while one of the babies would start a little cry thing that would travel across the theater like a wave and then it’d be quiet again.

There’s something about experiencing someone else’s world for a spell that’s, I don’t know, surreal I suppose. Not having kids, this movie thing never would have crossed my radar. And there I am, holding my sister’s friend’s baby so that she can eat her lunch in the movie theater.

Good times, I tell ya, good times. Wouldn’t miss it for the world. =)

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Photo credit (adapted from):
Changi T3 Movie theatre by kalleboo