Posted on 07/19/2025 9:55:36 AM PDT by Morgana
A United Airlines passenger was left infuriated over what he claimed was the bad behavior of a young child flying in the business class cabin.
Mitchell Miller shared two snaps of a little boy standing on his United Polaris seat on a transatlantic flight to Paris on his Threads account.
'An immature father who lets his son scream and shout and stand up in the seat and jump up and down so far for the whole flight,' Miller wrote.
'The kid hasn’t ST*U (shut the **** up) since we took off and daddy couldn’t care less. 4 hours, 52 minutes so far…2 more hours of this [expletive]. Can we get children under 12 banned from business class…please??'
The post sparked a fiery debate over whether kids should be allowed to fly business or first class, where seats cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars.
'You should have shamed them more. Bad parents deserve it. This isn’t acceptable. Child is in a public place,' one comment agreed.
Another commenter shared a similar experience when they were on a flight with a child screaming for their mom, standing and jumping on their seat, and running up and down the aisles during a 7.5 hour business class trip.
'The whole cabin was fuming. A baby I get, like annoying but it’s a baby, this was a full child that they actively ignored and didn’t once attempt to calm down or discipline,' the comment continued.
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Parent should control kid
It’s not complicated
One day I was taking my kids to the zoo, which they loved, and they would NOT settle down in the van. After talking to them a few times and they still kept at it, about halfway there, I turned around and we went home.
Of course they cried, but too bad. there was no second chances. The 3-4 warnings I gave them was enough, and they knew me well enough by that time to know I didn’t make idle threats.
I don’t recall having any trouble with them after that.
Nyquil. Repeated as needed until arrival.
“Then maybe parents would start being parents.”
Trying to make someone parent is almost impossible unless you make it hurt. So here’s an idea.
If a parent does not wish to contain one of their party like a kid, then the FAA should allow the airlines to charge a fee besides the seat fee charge equivalent to an extra baggage fee any time they fly with an airline and they are taking someone, anyone, on the next flight they take. And each time they pay the extra charge, and they do not contain their party, then earmark them and double the fee the next time. When they run out of airlines, or money to pay the freight, they can take the bus or ship if overseas. Ball’s in their court.
wy69
“The consequences of acting up were not going out any more.”
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As a child, my consequences were a little more, ahem, ...direct.
Discipline and parameters and guidance is pro child
Not anti child
Allowing them to run wild disturbing others is anti child actually
That is a prime example of why we see many in the younger generation act he way they do today. Riots, unruly protests and no respect for authority.
My pre-teen daughter is Gold level on American Airlines and regularly flies first and business class. When asked why she did what she was told she replied “My daddy would kill me if I didn’t”.
Of course I wouldn’t kill her, but she got a tanned bottom several times before we came to an understanding. I pretend I’m hurting her, she pretends it hurts, and she does what daddy says.
“I remember a flight from Paris to JFK with a small child kicking the back of my seat all the way.”
Did you pay for a business class seat?
Whether it is more often or not, business class is not for kids
Period
By definition
When our kids were little since all the kid’s activities at church as well as prayer meeting were on Wednesday night.
For a few years, the church, by volunteers, had a very inexpensive but good quality homemade dinner where we could pay a small fee, and we could all eat.
It was a great place (and safe for them and others) for the kids to learn how behave in public and not act like wild animals. And when they were done, they could spend their free time playing with their friends.
But what a great intro to teaching them how to eat out in a public place and being able to take care of discipline issues cause nobody saw anything.
Had that happen to me. I was in a nice restaurant at the top of a casino in Lake Tahoe with a bunch of friends. There were I think two or three couples with a few kids at a table near ours. Apparently they had just finished eating so the parents let the kids run around the restaurant, playing tag.
I had already had a couple of drinks so I stood up and yelled at the kids "get your asses back to your table and sit down and shut up".
Well, it got the result I wanted. The parents quickly gathered up the kids and left without saying a word.
In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have done it. But the behavior of those kids and the parents allowing them to run around just caused something in me to snap.
“Truthfully, you buy your seat. What happens in other seats is not really anybody’s business”
BZZT
Wrong.
Business class is the beginning of the article
I pay 400 to thousands extra, no misbehaving around me.
Sounds to me like you were a spoiled kid or you have spoiled kids.
On what planet is it appropriate in a cabin full of people you don’t know, to let your kid yell and scream and bother everyone for 5 hours?
That is the parents GD responsibility and they are selfish awful human beings.
So everyone else gets what they want and Brandon has to suck it up?
What a sad excuse for allowing out of control entitled brats be they children or adults, free reign to ruin everyone else’s day.
It’s the epitome of selfishness.
“ Brandon is NOT buying a nuisance-free trip, where his every need and legal want is met by a fawning staff.”
Yeah he is. He paid for business class
The airline should not have placed a child in business class
It is an exceedingly selfish, entitled attitude.
Anyone who has taken an early childhood development class in college has been taught to NEVER discipline their child, that it is legally child abuse.
I learned this 1st hand reading my wife’s textbook.
It was a contributing cause of my divorce.
I’m really surprised that the flight attendants allow kids to stand on the seats. That’s dangerous for the child and other people. They tell adults that any time they’re seated they should have their seatbelt on.
Reason # 47760007 why I loath modern day liberal academia.
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