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Toddler Tantrum Gets Family Booted from JetBlue Flight. Is Flying Still Kid-friendly?
Yahoo ^ | 3/9/2012 | Piper Weiss

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Travel
KEYWORDS: jetblue; tantrum; toddler
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To: Former Fetus

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.


21 posted on 03/09/2012 1:54:59 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maybe it IS about contraception. Read "Planned Parenthood v. Casey" decision, 1992.)
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To: Former Fetus

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.


22 posted on 03/09/2012 1:59:25 PM PST by lurk
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To: lurk
I call such ineffectual and stupid parents “subjects of a Cryocracy”.

Kids will do what they get away with. Allow a crying two year old to rule you, and they will rule you with a chubby little iron fist.

23 posted on 03/09/2012 2:05:01 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to DC to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: Former Fetus

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


24 posted on 03/09/2012 2:25:20 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: longtermmemmory
this girl seems like a little monster.

And according to the article, the mother is a pediatrician!

25 posted on 03/09/2012 2:29:15 PM PST by Churchillspirit
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To: novascotianative
My mother would have handled that situation quickly and single (open) handedly, if you know what I mean. :]

Problem is, do this today and you risk getting yourself arrested.

26 posted on 03/09/2012 2:35:29 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Former Fetus

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!


27 posted on 03/09/2012 2:44:09 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Former Fetus

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.


28 posted on 03/09/2012 2:47:26 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: discostu

Some people feel that it is incumbent upon them to inflict their brats on the rest of society. My parents didn’t have that problem nor did I. Things, apparently, have changed. However, if your rearing of children does not include civilizing them, then it is likely they’ll become clients of the criminal justice system.


29 posted on 03/09/2012 2:55:47 PM PST by old school
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To: AlmaKing

Then why would you conclude that an airline which removes an *undisciplined* child from a flight is “not child friendly”?


30 posted on 03/09/2012 3:07:39 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Former Fetus
We did not get ejected but the attitude of the flight attendants and some of the other passengers were behind us starting to fly with Delta.

I understand the problems of 3 year olds, but my sympathies are with the people annoyed about the flight's being delayed an hour.

31 posted on 03/09/2012 3:08:24 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: Churchillspirit

ah so she know better than everyone else...(/s)


32 posted on 03/09/2012 3:08:30 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Former Fetus

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.


33 posted on 03/09/2012 3:16:46 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Former Fetus

Airlines are not human friendly, more now than ever.


34 posted on 03/09/2012 3:25:55 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

This reminds me of my flight from Okinawa in 1958 with a 10 yr old boy wearing a copy of his father’s uniform. I finally told him if he didn’t shut up and sit down I was going to pull his pants down and spank the living hell out of him. When he that I wouldn’t dare I got up and he quickly shut up and was quiet for the rest of a very long flight. His mother upon departing thanked me.


35 posted on 03/09/2012 3:59:18 PM PST by spookie
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To: Former Fetus
I have a problem with the headline. It is meant to draw sympathy for a misbehaving kid and parents who have no concept of discipline.

No joke: My kid acts up in public, I take them to the nearest restroom and tear their little butt up.

36 posted on 03/09/2012 4:18:30 PM PST by Houmatt (NObama in 2012!)
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To: Houmatt

I was just going to post that all I had to do to get my kids in line is to tell them that we were going to the bathroom. They would immediately behave because they knew that they would get a swat in the bathroom. Not that I had to do it. (I can’t even remember if I did do it!) But they knew that I would if they didn’t straighten up.

I once also walked out of a restaurant when my older-ish kids wouldn’t stop bickering. My kids were stunned when we had to get in the car and drive away.

And I remember once they were bickering on a long drive home from vacation. I asked my husband to pull off the freeway into the nearest town and find a bank. I went into the bank and bought each child a roll of quarters. I told the kids that every time they bickered they would give me a quarter. They made it all the way home with close to $10 each :)


37 posted on 03/09/2012 4:32:03 PM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: lurk
"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."

Correct. The other day, I had to stand in line and listen to a toddler..well, he wasn't crying, it was more like he was possessed. He was shrieking, screaming, and GROWLING, and he was quite loud. It went on, and on, and on. I ended up with a headache that lasted for hours. And the stupid mother's reaction was to croon, "What's wrong? What's the matter? You're going to have to calm down now." If I had pulled something like that, my mother would have burned my butt up on the spot.

38 posted on 03/09/2012 5:22:38 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (I can haz Romney's defeat?)
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To: longtermmemmory

One of my son’s decided to have a temper tantrum and threw himself on the floor next to me in the kitchen, kicking and screaming...I looked at him, got up and left the kitchen and sat in the living room. He got up followed me into the living room, threw himself on the floor kicking and screaming. I got up and went into the family room, he got jup and followed me and repeated his little tantrum...by the time I moved the 5th time, he gave up and quit...its no fun for a kid to be laughed at and then move to another room...My next move was to the bathroom with a locked door and laugh at him from under the door....


39 posted on 03/09/2012 6:13:41 PM PST by goat granny
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To: Former Fetus

I don’t blame this airline or TWA for what happened to you. I sympathize with you and if I was in your position it would be very hard, yes. However, that 1 hour delay would have cost the airlines a lot of money in burnt fuel, airport costs etc. and would have delayed quite a few passengers.


40 posted on 03/09/2012 9:21:59 PM PST by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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