Posted on 02/15/2018 6:02:46 AM PST by Simon Green
Give the kid some Purple Drank.
“Gavin, don’t touch that, honey. Oh, I’ll pay for that!”
Dad?
The poor kid just needed to be rocked to sleep... I’ll get the rock.
I wouldn't have been. Because...it was Newark Liberty International Airport.
When the FAA needs to give the airport system an enema, Liberty Int'l is where they stick the tube.
When she was 5, her doc and I decided to try the Feingold diet. Long story short, she could not tolerate APPLES. It didn't have to be the fruit, just cider vinegar could set her off. We were very diligent after that - no apples (although she did get back into ketchup, etc. where the type of vinegar used was not labeled.) She was a model student, has her master's, dual certification including Special Ed and is a Special Ed teacher.
She was not undisciplined nor spoiled - she had a real problem in how her system reacted to certain foods. Today, they would probably medicate, but fortunately, her pediatrician was not so inclined.
Spare the rod, spoil the child. Yeh ignore the good old Biblical advice and create your own little monsters. That kid needed a good, strong male to get in his face.
Every time I see that Cosby video, I want to reach in and straighten his tie.
I’m quite tolerant, while annoyed, with crying kids on flights usually. For the most part, it happens when their ears are affected during takeoff and landing. Babies cry when they are in pain or hungry. I can’t fault a baby.
However, a couple of weeks ago I took a 7am flight from Atlanta to Denver. A THREE year old use screaming as a weapon the entire flight. If her mother said no, scream at the top of her lungs. She screamed 80% of the flight. That is a kid that needs some discipline. I wanted to smack the kid for the parents. Heck, I wanted to smack the parents.
My son has “behavioral problems”, ADHD, Anxiety, ODD, maybe more. Spanking doesn’t work. He doesn’t respond to it, just makes him more angry. Grounding has no effect and loss of privileges has no effect on his behavior. He lacks all self control. Therapies, medications and the like have modified his behavior but not really changed it.
It’s hard to deal with everyday. We don’t go out very much because of his behavior and are basically prisoners to it.
If it’s hard on us, his parents, how do you think he must feel inside? For a board that talks a lot about Christ’s mercy and Christian values, I see little empathy or mercy here lately. He needs prayers and so do his parents. If you’re the praying type, please have at it.
Jim
“I’ve never understood why passenger cabins don’t have an emergency roll of duct tape.”
LOL, that would do the trick!
But when I saw this thread, my first thought was,"... my name is Jeffery, and I'm 8 years old!"
Mark
It’s poswible that this toddler had an ear infection brewing and the changes in air pressure on his ear drums didn’t help either.
There are adults who have that trouble as well but they are able to deal with it.Toddlers can’t.
Benadryl would have done the trick.
People don’t realize that kids and even newbie flyers can’t handle cabin pressure change. It can be excruciating.
Most of those screaming babies on flights are in pretty good pain.
Duct tape the brat to a seat and duct tape his mouth. The mother was the idiot in letting the little Cretan get away with it for so long.
I know of an autistic kid who went through a phase where he just screamed a lot. Experts described it as stemming from an autistic kid’s “failure to communicate” - failure to understand and/or failure to be understood. Fortunately for the parents I knew the kid did grow out of it; not that growing out of it ended his autism.
Bad parenting. On top of that he sounds autistic.
More than that, there is something wrong with the parent. The child might be guided out of it, the parent is brain dead.
If the kid is allowed to scream non-stop, there's no reason the parent should be immune from getting screamed at by irate passengers.
“The mother of the child was overheard telling flight attendants that her son has “behavioral problems”
Starting with the parent(s). “
ANTIFA training in process.
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