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I had a child kick my seat from Singapore to Tokyo (about 8 hours). I repeatedly asked her mother to make her stop with no results except this pathetic look on the mother's face while she whined, "I can't, she doesn't like her seat." Then on the descent into Narita, the child stood up on her seat, leaned over the top of mine and barfed all over my hair.

I have told my 3 kids that they are absolutely not allowed to kick the seat in front of them and if they do I will tie their feet to the arm rests. The last time we flew back from Salt Lake City my 5 year old son sang the theme song from Sponge Bob Square Pants for 2 hours without stopping. The people sitting in front of him wanted to kill him and I was really embarrassed until the flight attendants told my how rude and hateful the people were to them. The flight attendants said they enjoyed Sponge Bob, all 2 hours of it. But at least he didn't kick the seat.

My mother tells me what brats my kids are and how I was such a perfect child I would never do what they do. I told her compared to their peers they aren't too bad. She saw some of their peers at my son's birthday party and said they were little savages with oblivious parents.