I agree with you. Children deserve respect, and respect for what they are going through.
I get SEVERE ear pain when flying. I’ve been suffering through it my entire life. I know how these kids feel with underdeveloped or untrained sinuses. It sucks.
I think the best idea is to simply not travel with someone until they are fully aware of how to do it.
When I hear a kid screaming out like that, I feel for them. They never (Even when I was a younger man) made me angry about it.
I wouldn’t want to be there, but at the same time I empathize with the kid. So many people are enraged when they hear a kid crying .. I’m more interested in their condition than mine.
“Children deserve respect, and respect for what they are going through.”
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Celerity, you said it in so much better a way than I was capable of saying it! Thank you!
I recall reading here a while ago about a child’s parents who handed out little thank-you baggies to adults as a way of letting them know their baby was on it’s first flight. Such good parents!
A few months ago, I was on a flight with a little girl, maybe 2 1/2 or so a couple rows back. Just as the plane pulled back from the gate, she said Mommy, I need to go potty.”
Everyone around kind of snickered. The flight attendant heard and came over to tell the mom that he told the Captain to hold for a couple minutes while the little girl made her way to the head.
It was pretty funny and a good job on the flight attendants part.