iPad kids have become a plague, a burden on many a wedding guest, theatergoer, and restaurant diner and server alike. There’s nothing like the rising shrieks of an overstimulated and unattended child rising above the communal din or performative silence. We millennials thought that we were going to be better than our parents—in fact, we were determined—but clearly, many of us succumbed to the rigors of life and parenting just as the generations before us did—only managing to get as far as shoving our iPads in front of our kids and hoping for a little reprieve. Still, it remains a fact that decorum must be followed in social settings where we must maintain minimum social standards.
Certainly, when you’re the guest at a wedding you need to recognize that nothing about the entire affair is about you, save for the fact that you’re there to celebrate and witness the happiest day of someone’s life. There’s a reason why so many couples are now choosing to do “childless” weddings and that’s because too many parents don’t know when to walk out of the room with their child when they start to fuss.
This guest fed up with the sounds emitting from the iPad Kid’s iPad behind them during the middle of the wedding speeches, turned around to ask the parents to turn the volume down—earning the wrath of the child’s mother in the process. They turned to this popular online community to see whether or not they were in the wrong for their comment. See their original post along with the responses from readers below.
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