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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I suppose telling the parent that you put your son in their care because you assumed he would be appropriately supervised, and being left in an arcade for 2 hours is not "appropriately supervised."

Then call the theater and tell them that they need to beef up their monitoring system, too.  Your son was left alone in the arcade for two hours without adult supervision. They should've noticed.  No need to press charges or anything, but you know... they are a business.  They need to be looking out for stuff like this, too.[/quote]

Why would you consider the theater responsible?  It's not illegal to leave your 8 year old in the arcade, or to let your 8 year old walk to the movie theater and play in the arcade.  It's incredibly bad host behavior to leave someone else's 8 year old in the arcade, but that's on the parents, not the movie theater.

I'm going to guess that the parents in this situation would have felt safe leaving their 8 year old in the arcade.  I might have felt that way too (it's hard to say without seeing the set up of the movie theater) and when OP's kid asked to stay they didn't think that other parents might have a problem. That doesn't make it OK for them to have left him, they needed to consider that other families have different expectations for safety.  [/quote]

This. What the host parents did was inappropriate, but I don't see how the theater did anything wrong.[/quote]

Press charges for what, exactly?  Pray tell what criminal charges would or could be brought against the theater?  And what, exactly, should they have noticed?  A child using the game room for the purpose for which it was established?  Yes, they are a business.  They have a game room, for children.  [/quote]

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