[Simon Green]

The kid's screaming at the linked video has to be heard to be believed. 8 hours of that? A flight from Hell, indeed.

[Bob Celeste]

All the kid was begging for was a spanking.

[babble-on]

Benadryl

[robroys woman]

I’ve never understood why passenger cabins don’t have an emergency roll of duct tape.

[MustKnowHistory]

This is what Benadryl is for. Sedate him.

[Bayan]

Bad parenting no matte how you look at it.

[beaversmom]

Little Jeffery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iB3Dl0_kio

I just saw this on another thread last night.

[Psalm 73]

At the Southwest gate in WPB for a flight to Hartford, CT - after they announced parents with babies board first, there were like three of us still sitting there. Oh, oh - could be trouble.

It was OK until ONE BABY CRIED - then it was like stray dogs at night - they ALL cranked it up. Those little darlings....

[House Atreides]

Mom forgot the Tazer.

[Ann Archy]

Duct tape would have been greatly appreciated...not only his mouth but he should have been taped to the seat!

[4everontheRight]

As my hubby says, “beat that a$$”!

[Sans-Culotte]

The mother and child need to be put on a No-Fly list.

[I want the USA back]

A mother who can’t say NO to her brat. Millions of them. I see them all the time. Doesn’t give me warm feelings about the future of this country.

[Arm_Bears]

The names of the woman and her spawn-from-Hell should be placed at the top of the No-Fly list.

[beaversmom]

There’s something really wrong with that child if he did that for the WHOLE 8 hours. If he did it for 30 minutes there’s something wrong with him. That’s not normal.

[relictele]

The mother of the child was overheard telling flight attendants that her son has “behavioral problems"

Starting with the parent(s).

[bkopto]

Grape flavored Gravol works wonders for these sorts of circumstances.

[Cowboy Bob]

I think a glass of Bailey’s would have worked wonders on the kid.

[HombreSecreto]

And that’s why you never fly unless you have earplugs, particularly on a long flight.

32dB of noise reduction does wonders.

[fwdude]

The kid has probably never heard the word “NO.”

[WayneS]

When we were bringing our one-year-old son home from Russia, my wife and I were concerned that he would fuss and cry for the entire flight. We were both exhausted from three weeks in Russia with all the travel, the court dates, the excitement, last-minute issues at the airport in Perm, etc., so we just told each other: "If it happens it happens. We'll feel bad if he disrupts the flight, but we're never going to see any of these people again and they have no idea what we've been through...".

We'd requested bulkhead seating so that there would at least not be anyone directly in front of us. We ended up in the center row of a jumbo jet, which had six or seven seats, if I recall correctly. There was only one other person in the row with us - a very nice lady who was kind enough to move all the way to the end of the row so we could have the rest of the seats. We set ourselves up using five seats and folded up some arm rests. My wife sat at one end, I at the other, and the boy had a nice bed to stretch out on across three adjacent seats.

As it turned out, all our concerns were for naught, because the little guy fell asleep as soon as the plane took off and did not wake up until we landed at Dulles at 8:00 pm local time, at which point our son was raring to go! His mother and I had not slept in more than 36 hours, so that was great fun for us.

And I would not trade that experience for anything in the world.

It also made me much more tolerant of crying children on airplanes. I just remind myself "There but for the Grace of God go I" - and that I have no idea what has occurred in the lives of the child and its parent(s) in the hours and/or days leading up to the flight.