Posted on 03/09/2012 1:01:01 PM PST by Former Fetus
Flying has never been “kid-friendly.” It’s not “adult-friendly,” either, as a rule, and hasn’t been in my lifetime. It’s just the fastest way to get a long distance, when you’ve got to.
Welcome to the era of the child-centered home, where parents are creators, groomers, enablers and ultimately hostages to little terrorists 1/5 their size.
We just never gave our toddlers the option of going in that direction.
Kids will do what they get away with. Allow a crying two year old to rule you, and they will rule you with a chubby little iron fist.
If the pilot takes off with kids running wild in the aisles and not seated/buckled in, then the airline faces a massive fine and the pilot gets fired.
I don’t see how the pilot had much choice.
Either hold the entire plane of passengers hostage indefinitely on the tarmac or turn around and drop them off
And according to the article, the mother is a pediatrician!
Problem is, do this today and you risk getting yourself arrested.
Just have the PIC declare the problem child a audio terrorist and have that child arrested, deplane, and given a very long time out. LOL!
I guess Mom never got the Actions have Consequences memo.
She may be willing to put up with Little Darling’s Precious Tantrum.
She does not have the right, however, to subject other adults to Little Darling’s Precious Tantrum.
Some people feel that it is incumbent upon them to inflict their brats on the rest of society. My parents didn’t have that problem nor did I. Things, apparently, have changed. However, if your rearing of children does not include civilizing them, then it is likely they’ll become clients of the criminal justice system.
Then why would you conclude that an airline which removes an *undisciplined* child from a flight is “not child friendly”?
I understand the problems of 3 year olds, but my sympathies are with the people annoyed about the flight's being delayed an hour.
ah so she know better than everyone else...(/s)
No one should be subjected to the tantrums of other peoples’ children. There is no excuse for a pediatrician to let her kids act out in public-none.
A responsible parent would have stopped that tantrum with a few warning words, or a firm swat to the butt-whichever works best.
Airlines are not human friendly, more now than ever.
This reminds me of my flight from Okinawa in 1958 with a 10 yr old boy wearing a copy of his father’s uniform. I finally told him if he didn’t shut up and sit down I was going to pull his pants down and spank the living hell out of him. When he that I wouldn’t dare I got up and he quickly shut up and was quiet for the rest of a very long flight. His mother upon departing thanked me.
No joke: My kid acts up in public, I take them to the nearest restroom and tear their little butt up.
I was just going to post that all I had to do to get my kids in line is to tell them that we were going to the bathroom. They would immediately behave because they knew that they would get a swat in the bathroom. Not that I had to do it. (I can’t even remember if I did do it!) But they knew that I would if they didn’t straighten up.
I once also walked out of a restaurant when my older-ish kids wouldn’t stop bickering. My kids were stunned when we had to get in the car and drive away.
And I remember once they were bickering on a long drive home from vacation. I asked my husband to pull off the freeway into the nearest town and find a bank. I went into the bank and bought each child a roll of quarters. I told the kids that every time they bickered they would give me a quarter. They made it all the way home with close to $10 each :)
Correct. The other day, I had to stand in line and listen to a toddler..well, he wasn't crying, it was more like he was possessed. He was shrieking, screaming, and GROWLING, and he was quite loud. It went on, and on, and on. I ended up with a headache that lasted for hours. And the stupid mother's reaction was to croon, "What's wrong? What's the matter? You're going to have to calm down now." If I had pulled something like that, my mother would have burned my butt up on the spot.
One of my son’s decided to have a temper tantrum and threw himself on the floor next to me in the kitchen, kicking and screaming...I looked at him, got up and left the kitchen and sat in the living room. He got up followed me into the living room, threw himself on the floor kicking and screaming. I got up and went into the family room, he got jup and followed me and repeated his little tantrum...by the time I moved the 5th time, he gave up and quit...its no fun for a kid to be laughed at and then move to another room...My next move was to the bathroom with a locked door and laugh at him from under the door....
I don’t blame this airline or TWA for what happened to you. I sympathize with you and if I was in your position it would be very hard, yes. However, that 1 hour delay would have cost the airlines a lot of money in burnt fuel, airport costs etc. and would have delayed quite a few passengers.
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