Coping with a child's tantrum on a plane (3 Year Old's Temper Delays Plane)

Yahoo ^ | 1/28/06

[Paladin2]

If the kid's used to being belted in in the family car (SUV), then riding the plane is likely no problem.

[Grizzled Bear]

If the kid's used to being belted in in the family car (SUV), then riding the plane is likely no problem.
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There you go assuming... ;-)

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Smart child, I would scream and fight if somebody wanted to force me to leave Florida and go to the commie wealth.:)

[ClearCase_guy]

Air Tran reimbursed the family the cost of their tickets and offered them three roundtrip tickets anywhere the airline flies as compensation.

Sweet! I'm going to teach my kid how to throw temper tantrums.

[Blueflag]

""A lot of this comes down to parenting," Perry said. At the end of the day, "I know I can get my daughter buckled in that seat.""

Parenting??? How dare he say that!!!

[Doctor Raoul]

If I were an Air Marshal, I wouild have tazered the parents.

[Dead Corpse]

My 27 week pregnant wife and 3 yo daughter are in the air right now. Flying back from seeing her parents. Ana loves to fly and behaved herself very well the time or two before this. We bring snacks and either a laptop or a portable DVD player with headphones to keep her distracted. I'll know in about an hour and a half how todays trip went.

It's worked so far.

As for parents letting their kids run amok, we are trying to install a LOT more discipline in our kids than they apparently believe in. Yes, I know this child had ear problems, but the parents should have planned for that and given the child something to help her deal with it.

Expecting the airlines to just rework their entire schedule is just ridiculous. Filing a lawsuit after the airlines had already tried to make a "peace offering" when they didn't really need to is just idiotic. Yet more reason to have a "loser pays" system for civil cases.

[toddlintown]

Looks like the parents were rewarded for having a spoiled child.

[cripplecreek]

Pathetic parents.

[RonDog]

See also:

Girl Kicked Off Plane After Tantrum
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Toddler's temper ousts family from plane
	Posted by presidio9 On News/Activism 01/23/2007 10:25:48 AM PST · 187 replies · 3,062+ views Associated Press via Yahoo News ^ | January 23, 2007 | Jim Ellis
Crying Child and Her Parents Removed From Flight
	Posted by Fawn On News/Activism 01/23/2007 10:26:18 AM PST · 185 replies · 3,303+ views ABC NEWS ^ | January 23, 2007 | ABC News
3-year-old unnerves airline [Girl taken off flight for crying too much]
	Posted by MotleyGirl70 On General/Chat 01/22/2007 10:51:57 AM PST · 179 replies · 3,251+ views Telegram.com ^ | 01/21/07 | Dianne Williamson

[Vigilanteman]

A two word suggestion that sometimes works wonders: Spock pinch.

[Alouette]

After reading through most of the threads on this incident, I think what made this worse than any other crying-child-on-a-plane was the fact the family could not get 3 seats together so the mother and father sat together and put the kid in a row by herself!!!

I mean, WTF?? Why couldn't the father take the lone seat and the kid sit next to mom? How hard was that?

[kinsman redeemer]

Here are four tips for getting children to behave on airplanes.

1. Discipline your children
2. Train your children.
3. Teach your children.
4. Be a mentor and an example for your children to follow.

If you can't remember all 4, just remember #1 (Actually, 2-3 DEFINE #1.)

Russ

[PhilSC]

An article I read when the story broke suggested that the parents were sitting together and the child was in a row in front of them. To me this is just asking for trouble.

[leda]

If ever there were a place where you need to make sure your children were behaving, this is the place.

says it all!

call us odd, but kids learn how to behave from their parents and by actually using those skills in...gasp! public! yep, from a very early age we've always taken our kids out. granted, they're not perfect, but what kid is? i know of many people who frimly refuse to go out with their kids. how the heck are they supposed to learn how to behave in public if they're never out?

i flew with our 5 yr old from d.c. to n.m. last may. we had a great trip, even the 3 or so hr leg from d.c. to dallas. i took gummy bears for her to chew and a bag of goodies like her cd player, coloring stuff and games. she was awesome :)

[Verloona Ti]

The parents are suing for their embarrassment and humiliation. I don't know, but I'm guessing the airway's apology and their free tickets will be taken as an admission of wrong doing, and the parents will win this case.

Incidentally, some people who were present in the terminal before the family boarded say the girl was acting wild and out of control in the waiting area too. And the child's behavior on GMA also makes it hard to believe she's "usually well behaved", as the parents claim.

[patton]

Still, the Munich leg is going to suck. I am going to need the patch. ;)

[Egon]

I mean, WTF?? Why couldn't the father take the lone seat and the kid sit next to mom? How hard was that?

You've got to be frigging kidding me! Shame on the parents for not taking that SIMPLE step! And shame on the lone guy in their row that wouldn't offer to change places with the kid.

What a bunch of morons.

[Egon]

The parents are suing for their embarrassment and humiliation. I don't know, but I'm guessing the airway's apology and their free tickets will be taken as an admission of wrong doing, and the parents will win this case.

The airline ought to start a class-action counter-suit with a bunch of the passengers on the plane for their inconvenience.