BRAT
"BRAT"
You said it! She was hitting her parents? One of my kids tried to hit me one time. Let's just say he never tried it again.
This child, like her parents and so many others in our society, is desperately in need of discipline. Good on Air Tran for throwing them off. Air Tran just became my airline of choice.
I don't have kids but I've witnessed MANY tantrums of the children of relatives.
One such incident that stands out was the child of one cousin. The boy was 3 or 4 and wanted to come into my room and climb onto my bed to watch television while wearing dirty shoes. I calmly told him to take off his shoes before coming inside. He told me NO and tried to come in without doing it. I grabbed him and pushed him back into the hallway and repeated my instructions. He stood there a minute, got an evil grin and RAN past me and launched himself onto my bed.
I caught him in mid-flight and carried him back into the hallway and closed the door to my room. He went BALLISTIC.
He screamed, cried and yelled and threw himself repeatedly into my bedroom door. This went on for about 8 minutes until his grandmother came to intervene and found him kicking and screaming. He launched into her when she tried to calm him and he got so worked up he started vomiting. I've never witnessed such a fit. He isn't a "special needs child" either, just a brat. He's now an adult (age 20) and SUPRISE, he REFUSES to get a job, work around the house or go to school and mooches off his mother. He lays around, plays with his PS2 all day, eats, and gets fatter and fatter. I'm sure he smokes weed all day while his folks are out.