Posted on 03/09/2012 1:01:01 PM PST by Former Fetus
Is a 2-year-old girl really a flight risk? Of course not, unless she's having a temper tantrum.
Colette Vieau and her family were heading home from vacation, when their toddler had a code red melt-down after boarding the plane. Refusing to stay seated and buckled up, and possibly agitating her 3-year-old sister, Vieau's youngest daughter, Natalie, became public enemy number one as the plane crew waited for take off.
"We were holding them down with all of our might, seat belt on. And I said, 'We have them seated. Can we go now?" Colette, a pediatrician, told Rhode Island's NBC 10. "[The flight attendant] said the pilot's made a decision to turn the plane around."
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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.
Agree. Things have changed and if you’re not well-mannered you’re apt to find the world treats you the same way, adult or child.
“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.
>>>They should have “Kiddie-Parachutes” and jetison the little burgers ...
Give them their own compartment... a kid-hold. Like a baggage hold...
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.
The child’s temper tantrum did not start on the plane. They started long before that and the mother let her getaway with them.
Temper tantrums received a swat across the back of the legs to my kids,abot twice and no more tantrums/
Some kids are smarter and try one in public thinking they cannot be pounished, but get surprised real quick when they do.
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 son and his family just got back from Turks and Caicos after a grand vacation with his wife’s family. On the flight home there were the 12 adults along with 2 teenagers and 7 kids 5 and under. They kept those kids as far apart from one another as possible ,on the plane ,with no incidents
My Mom’s was to do a two finger(index &middle) pinch to the nearest part of my anatomy. My brothers and I learn very quickly as she had a Washer-woman’s grip, from hand washing clothes.
I usually only took one to last for years.
I’ve been on one of those flights from hell, with only the MP3 allowing me to retain my sanity for the hour trip from BWI to MHT.
Isn’t the ejection of undisciplined idiots the reason that they have the slides on airliners?
Too, once the disruption has been ejected, shouldn’t the “responsible” adults be sent down to check them?
One can make accomodations for an infant, but for a bratty two year old there is no excuse. It is a manifestation of bad parenting skills, period.
Frankly, in this day and age and all the TSA, DHS and other travel ills, the last thing we need is have to put up with brats that their parents should know how to control. Just because you download a kid and want to travel somewhere doesn't mean you get to make other travelers' lives miserable. The right decision was to throw the family off the plane.
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.
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