"Who told you to put the kid on TV? I didn't tell you to put the kid on TV! Our case is ruined. This is a public humilation!"
Posted on 07/13/2007 2:03:55 PM PDT by Cagey
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 drowned out part of 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 rolled it off the table and onto 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.
"Who told you to put the kid on TV? I didn't tell you to put the kid on TV! Our case is ruined. This is a public humilation!"
wHAT WAS REALLY FUNNY WAS the male anchor kept saying to the child...” I have the balls. I have the balls.
( we hope he does...ha. but not enough to shut the kid up.)
The Airline wins the case, lol!
These should be required for those kids that love to kick the back of the seat in front of them.
Hahahahaha!
Kids, esp at that age don’t like not having momma’s attention. They will do whatever they need to , to get it back, even if it results in a spanking. He sounds normal to me.
Good one! :)
Sad! I feel sorry for the kid with a mother as out of touch as she is.
The child seems to have confirmed the reports that he is misbehaved.
It’s Out-ra-geous!
It’s preposterous!
This child will be a brat from bad parents.
Better yet—remember the old days, where they had smoking and non-smoking sections of aircraft? How about a kid and a non-kid area? Chances are, the business people who need to get something done while on a flight could justify an extra 10% surcharge for a seat in the preferred section. And not having to listen to whining is one additional benefit that the harness you picture wouldn’t do anything about.
‘There’s no predicting how a kid that age is going to act.
Ain’t that the truth.’
Isn’t that a cute picture...such a nice family and cute kids...
btw, I saw the interview and well, maybe benadryl wouldn’t have been a bad idea...
The other night we were discussing discipline and my son said I should have spanked his sister more. I said I'm not sure it makes a difference. It didn't seem to with him.
He grinned and said, Sure it did. I didn't end up in jail, did I?
LOL! Betcha Diane Sawyer wanted to give the kid the same thing the flight attendant suggested...wasn’t it Benadryl?
How the child acted on the plane or on GMA has nothing to do with with any law suit that might go forward.
It’s definitely preposterous.
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