Is there anyone who hasn’t heard about the horrific shooting in Colorado? Friday at work it was all anyone could talk about and as fellow blogger pointed out in her blog, Watch Where You Point That Finger, everyone had an opinion about people taking their children to the movies in the first place.
Apparently those people have never been single parents. Or maybe they’ve never been any type of parent but I know, as a single parent, sometimes, midnight showings are your best friend.
If your kids are young, you hope they will sleep through the movie. As a single mother of young kids sometimes the only way you can see a movie that interests you more than the kids is to see it past their bedtimes.
I remember taking Hailey to midnight showings armed with a blanket and a stuffed animal, knowing that she would quickly go to sleep and I could sit and enjoy a movie uninterrupted. Does this make me a bad parent?
According to some people, it does. There were also many times when my thirteen year old went to a midnight showing of Harry Potter or something else, with her friends while I stayed home. I would organize with another mom, one of us would drop off and the other would pick up, making sure the kids were safely where they should be. Again, does this make me a bad parent?
In the wake of this terrible tragedy my heart aches for those involved and I know, but for the grace of God go I.
When will people realize that you can do everything exactly right, and sometimes bad things still happen. I follow a blog written by a parent of a child who is so allergic to the sun that they have to do everything at night. Is she a bad parent if she takes her child to a midnight showing of a movie?
We have to learn not to judge other parents and their choices. Until you walk someone else’s path you have no idea why they made the choice they did. All I know is that if something happens to your child you don’t need anyone else telling you that you were wrong, you already will never be able to forgive yourself.