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I support a sound proof room at the back for idiotic parents who bring babies on planes. I was on a plane to San Francisco where a baby cried/screamed the full last hour of the flight and they did nothing. A whole bunch of people were ready to cause a ruckus but in this day and age you never know what can happen with the air marshals and Obama might fling some terror charges on you.

Sometimes, with babies, there is really nothing the parents can do. The changes in air pressure on takeoff and landing cause severe pain in babies' ears. Most adults can handle the changes by swallowing hard, sucking on hard candy, or chewing gum. Even our grown daughter gets severe sinus pressure, and ear pain, depending on the type of aircraft. Now think about little babies; they don't understand the concept of pressure changes, except that it hurts, and they don't know how to fix it. Parents can try using a pacifier, but crying babies spit them out, not realizing that sucking on them will help them. A nursing mother could hold the baby and nurse through takeoff and landing, but sometimes flight attendants won't allow that; the baby has to be restrained in the carrier in the adjoining seat.

So yes, it is annoying, but the babies can't help it, and their parents can't do a thing about it. Toddlers are a completely different story; if they're screaming and being obnoxious, the parent's CAN do something about that. Usually it involves talking a lot about what the plane is doing, pointing out the window, if you can see anything, or just doing a mighty job of distraction.

I like the idea of them being in the back of the plane, because they usually take the longest with getting settled in their seats, and not having to wait for them trying to do that in the middle of the plane makes complete sense. The same in reverse; folks aren't delayed getting off with parents having to re-load all the kids' gear.

“I support a sound proof room at the back for idiotic parents who bring babies on planes.”

But what if the Muzzie terrorists get confused and think the door to the baby room in the back of the plane is where the pilots are located? Muzzies threatening a bunch of mothers with babies wouldn’t end well for them.

I was on a cross country flight where Mom, Dad, Grandma get on with three teenage kids and two smaller boys. They have E and F in 4 consecutive rows. We all know ,in that position, how we would divvy up the seats, but not these people. I ended up sitting next to the two small boys, who really weren't that badly behaved, but I still found myself responsible for running the entertainment systems, ordering drinks, stopping fights, etc. for the next 4 hours.

On one of my bathroom breaks the grandma apologized for the behavior of the one kid because he had ADHD.

What ticks me off is when I bring my family unit aboard I see some people in the surrounding seats start rolling their eyes. Personally, I'm more concerned with the colorful language you hear from drunks on the plane and all the crying and whining associated with a weather delay.