POSTED: 9:12 am EDT July 13, 2007 UPDATED: 2:30 pm EDT July 13, 2007
NEW YORK -- The Gwinnett County mother kicked off an airplane with her 19-month old son tried to tell her side of the story Friday morning, but her son's crying and whining drowned out the interview.
Garren Penland, 19-months old, got so unruly during his mom's chat with 'Good Morning America' anchor Diane Sawyer, co-anchor Chris Cuomo had to take the toddler off the set.
While Kate Penland explained her child was well-behaved on the Continental Express flight, little Garren kicked, wiggled and squirmed out of his mother's arms.
At one point he climbed up on a coffee table and rifled through Sawyer's scripts.
When Sawyer handed him a model Space Shuttle to distract him, Garren knocked it to the floor.
Kate Penland said she and Garren were booted from the flight last month by a flight attendant who suggested she use benadryl to calm her son down.
Yea, I just saw that link to the video but couldn’t pull it up on my computer. Maybe it will be on Youtube. He’s 19 months old so I don’t see his behavior as abnormal. Babies and toddlers have energy and little discretion and self control. It’s funny that he was that wild though—doesn’t help the mother’s case much in the eyes of the people that have already sided against her.
I watched the video. He behaved like a typical 19 month-old boy who did not want to sit there. The mother was holding onto him as tightly as possible. The article made it sound like knocking the toy on the floor was so terrible. On the video, he’s trying to make it roll across the table and it fell on the floor.