Definitely not child friendly. There’s always one individual on a flight that is ticked that even one child is on the flight. Those folks will encounter my bad attitude if they open their mouths to me. And my children are well disciplined.
My mother would have handled that situation quickly and single (open) handedly, if you know what I mean. :]
Quiet children tend to find the world friendlier than tantrum children. Which is as it should be, people don’t like grown ups that cause headaches either.
“Since when does overnight accommodations cost $2000?! Seriously I can buy a whole vacation for that.” from the replies.
Guess the hotel didn’t like your kids either.
I had a woman unable to control her child the same way, and she was about to be booted. I suggested the child have one of my kid’s juice boxes. Tantrum ended. Why didn’t she think of that?
No sympathies here. You can’t control your children so that they do not cause headaches for the rest of society, they will turn into arrogant yabbos that feel that everyone else owes them something and deserve only their sneering contempt. I speak from experience, and no, no child I raised has ever been allowed to throw a tantrum of any sort. They may have started to, but they learned very quickly that the results of any such actions brought down upon their heads repercussions far outweighing any momentary glee they might have experienced from their oh-so-unwise actions.
They should have “Kiddie-Parachutes” and jetison the little burgers ...
/ kidding folks ...
My first thot is ‘Day-Care Kids.’ Parents of day-care kids do not always learn how to be parents when they are on their own.
Is flying friendly at all anymore? Not at all. I rarely travel anymore because it is just such a hassle.
Shame, too. I LOVE to fly. There is nothing more relaxing than being in the sky. I get a lot of reading and napping done whilst airborne.
If it took too adults to hold the child down AND she was running all over the place the pilot had a no win judment call.
I have been on flights with screaming kids, usually it is their little ears that are bothering them.
this girl seems like a little monster.
My cousin had a airline stewardess threaten to tie him out on the wing if he didn't shut up. This was in the 70's. Of course he was a spoiled brat so the rest of us just snickered and went back to our coloring books.
Flying has never been “kid-friendly.” It’s not “adult-friendly,” either, as a rule, and hasn’t been in my lifetime. It’s just the fastest way to get a long distance, when you’ve got to.
Welcome to the era of the child-centered home, where parents are creators, groomers, enablers and ultimately hostages to little terrorists 1/5 their size.
We just never gave our toddlers the option of going in that direction.
If the pilot takes off with kids running wild in the aisles and not seated/buckled in, then the airline faces a massive fine and the pilot gets fired.
I don’t see how the pilot had much choice.
Either hold the entire plane of passengers hostage indefinitely on the tarmac or turn around and drop them off
Just have the PIC declare the problem child a audio terrorist and have that child arrested, deplane, and given a very long time out. LOL!
I guess Mom never got the Actions have Consequences memo.
She may be willing to put up with Little Darling’s Precious Tantrum.
She does not have the right, however, to subject other adults to Little Darling’s Precious Tantrum.
I understand the problems of 3 year olds, but my sympathies are with the people annoyed about the flight's being delayed an hour.
No one should be subjected to the tantrums of other peoples’ children. There is no excuse for a pediatrician to let her kids act out in public-none.
A responsible parent would have stopped that tantrum with a few warning words, or a firm swat to the butt-whichever works best.
Airlines are not human friendly, more now than ever.