{"id":318,"date":"2006-04-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/04\/dvds-kids-restaurants-bad-idea.html"},"modified":"2006-04-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T12:00:00","slug":"dvds-kids-restaurants-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/04\/dvds-kids-restaurants-bad-idea.html","title":{"rendered":"DVDs + Kids + Restaurants = Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Movie Mom&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/038078839X\/sr=8-1\/qid=1145628525\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-7638272-0731123?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"_new\">Nell Minow<\/a>, my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/mv\/moviemom\/\" target=\"_new\">online film critic<\/a>, recently wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/chi-0604120346apr13,1,5558935.story\" target=\"_new\">great piece<\/a> for the Chicago Tribune about her reaction to seeing parents plop a DVD player in front of their daughter so the youngster could watch a Disney film while they all dined in a restaurant. 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