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Why should we accept the hell of other people’s kids?
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 08 May 2014 | Amanda Craig

Posted on 05/08/2014 5:48:49 AM PDT by relictele

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To: MrB

Disciplining children and teaching manners is hardly child-hating, much less satanic. On the contrary, a parent is responsible for doing just that to the ultimate benefit of the child cum adult.


21 posted on 05/08/2014 6:24:27 AM PDT by PA BOOKENDS
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To: longfellow
I turned around and yelled at a kid cause his own parents wouldn’t discipline the little bastard.

I have done similar things in restaurants and movie theaters. I don't discipline the kids though, I discipline the parents. "Would you please stop your child from kicking my chair?" or "Would you please ask your child to be quiet?" In other words: man-up / woman-up and start acting like a parent.

22 posted on 05/08/2014 6:26:31 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: relictele

I think people should be able to pay to avoid children on an airplane. It would be interesting to see how that would work out in practice, however. What’s the airline going to do if they have empty seats and a potential purchaser with a child? Leave the seat empty? Charge the “No children” person for the lost revenue? Accept that loss and hope that advertising guaranteed no-children accommodations will, overall, result in higher revenue?

I also think it’s fine to have a “No children” restaurant, as long as the information is published. Logically, this would mean businesses could refuse to serve anyone, for any reason ... and that will never fly in our climate of forced association. But anyway ...


23 posted on 05/08/2014 6:27:04 AM PDT by Tax-chick (All my teenagers are annoying, but some are more annoying than others.)
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To: PA BOOKENDS

I don’t think we’re in disagreement.

My point was that lefties hate children and don’t want to see them or be around them, and this is just an expression of their Satanic anti-family agenda.


24 posted on 05/08/2014 6:27:21 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Next year I hope to bring my then 20 month old daughter to the US from Thailand. I expect to piss off some travelers and have the 3 of us in Business Class (getting my daughter her own seat). I pray I am able to stabilize her ear pressure to keep her from crying.

There are earplug products designed to do exactly that, and they come in kid sizes, too - they S L O W L Y equalize air pressure through baffles and ceramic filters, preventing pain caused by rapid air pressure changes. If you can get your daughter to keep them in for the entire flight, they should provide relief for the worst moments.


25 posted on 05/08/2014 6:29:25 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: relictele

The best seats on airliners was the smoking section. No Kids!

I was sorry to see smoking banned on planes. I have flown once since the ban, and will never do it again.


26 posted on 05/08/2014 6:29:30 AM PDT by wrench
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To: MrB
My point was that lefties hate children

Except when they can use them for political props.

27 posted on 05/08/2014 6:30:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: relictele

Back in 1996 I was on a flight from Washington Dulles to Frankfurt, Germany. I was still active duty and was on a business trip. A youngish military family with six children boarded the 747 and their seven year old son was deposited into the seat on my right and for almost the entire nine and one half hour flight he would not stop talking to me except when he took a 45 minute nap. It was the most grueling trip I had ever been on including trips to Japan and Guam. I was praying for a roll of duct tape and a gag to appear so I could shut him up for awhile.

Not once did the parents come by and talk to him or their defacto baby sitter, me.

Just before we descended towards Frankfurt Airport the head stewardess handed me a bottle of duty-free wine, thanked me, and told me she had never seen someone so patient for so long.


28 posted on 05/08/2014 6:30:49 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: longfellow

” parents wouldn’t discipline the little bastard”

Wait a minute... how did you know they weren’t married?


29 posted on 05/08/2014 6:31:14 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: relictele

Bill Cosby - “Jeffrey”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs0cYJUqJys


30 posted on 05/08/2014 6:33:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: FamiliarFace

Drug the kid before boarding. Slip the kid a Benedril and have fun


31 posted on 05/08/2014 6:45:00 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: relictele

I remember one flight with eleven young kids divided among three adults (we’re not Catholic or LDS, but we do love kids), where I was simply overwhelmed entertaining three kids under 7 y/o for four hours. The kids were reasonably quiet, but I was wondering what condition I would be in after the flight.

The businessman next to me read his WSJ for about an hour, at which point my 6 y/o fell asleep, and he asked if he could entertain the 3 y/o and 2 y/o while I took a break. He was amazing! He sang so softly and beautifully that they were silent so they could hear him. He played games that I remembered once he tried them but had forgotten in the stress of keeping multiple kids calm and cared for. He made silly faces and sillier noises. He drew lifelike pictures of them, which kept their rapt attention (and hung in their rooms for years afterwards). Three hours later, when the kids hugged him goodbye, I thanked him, and his response was to thank me for the joy of playing with my kids. He also asked me to pass the favor on in a decade or so - and I have done so several times, as have my (now much older) kids.

You may not be able to do anything about the crying kids a few rows away, but I’m impressed at how much one stranger can do to help adjacent travelers with young kids. When I’m the one entertaining a traveling child, I enjoy it, and I can bring out a broad repertoire of tricks that are new to the youngsters. I actually prefer to sit next to a parent traveling with children because they entertain me as much as I entertain them.


32 posted on 05/08/2014 6:45:15 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: MrB

I hate kids and I’m not at all Satanic! Kids are the worst: obnoxious, drooling little beasts who are allowed to scream for hours on airplanes and stand on chairs in restaurants. They run around grocery stores upsetting fruit and pushing old people to the ground - or they ride around in those huge, foul, plastic “cars,” blocking aisles and skinning the knees of hard-working grocers.

They should be seen and not heard - except they shouldn’t be seen.


33 posted on 05/08/2014 6:49:30 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Don’t know if you know, but having her drink something (so that she swallows constantly) during take off and landing will go a long way to prevent the ears from not popping. Once you’re at altitude, the pressure will be constant and shouldn’t be a problem.


34 posted on 05/08/2014 6:50:36 AM PDT by Drrdot (Ban murder, not guns)
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To: miss marmelstein

Don’t forget their rock and roll and their jalopies!


35 posted on 05/08/2014 6:51:20 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

Why can’t they be like we were? What’s wrong with Sammy Kaye?


36 posted on 05/08/2014 6:52:57 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: longfellow
I did the same to a kid kicking my seat. I was about to walk off the plane
to take another flight but his parent finally told him to stop after three
reprimands from myself. The attendant got a kick out of me handling it.
37 posted on 05/08/2014 6:55:18 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Pollster1

I thought that was what the Kennel hold was for?
I,ve had one kid on a flight sit with me after 20 mins of annoyance, I traded seats with him and gave him the window and said occupy your self!
I guess we should carry an issue of Highlight’s.


38 posted on 05/08/2014 6:55:20 AM PDT by DocJhn
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To: miss marmelstein

” little beasts who are _allowed_ to”

I think this is the key to your post, and your dislike of kids.

My kids don’t do any of the things you used as examples of bad behavior - at least in public :).


39 posted on 05/08/2014 6:55:46 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Ditto that...years ago we flew to Singapore via Tokyo, and there was a dot-Indian family right behind us with two chirren that NEVER quit squalling all the way to Japan.

Wifey and I were really happy to get that stop, figuring the family would depart and head to Bombay -- but no...we got another 9 hours of it all the way to Singapore.

40 posted on 05/08/2014 6:56:36 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (The 0baMao Experiment: Abject Failure)
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