Posted on 04/04/2017 8:52:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Occasionally, when flying with kids who are melting down, a stranger shows a parent some much-needed mercy. We've all heard stories -- there was that one man who walked a toddler up and down the plane's aisle so the pregnant mom could get a little rest. Or the woman who let a baby sleep on her when the dad couldn't stop him from crawling all over her in her window seat. Most recently, a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines stepped up and helped a parent whose baby girl couldn't get calm.
, a mother traveling with her two small daughters didn't know what to do when the baby had a crying fit that nothing could calm.
This Southwest employee asked the mother to come to the back of the plane with him. I looked back and saw him blowing bubbles for the little girl until she stopped crying as he was also giving tissues to the mother and consoling her as she was crying too.
Carrie Jaboor, who was seated behind the family and who posted the update, spoke with Scary Mommy:
“When I saw the flight attendant ask her to step to the back, I could tell the mother (and myself) thought she was going to get in trouble but then I looked back and couldn’t believe that he was blowing bubbles. It just made me so happy to see a flight attendant take a situation that could be construed as annoying/disturbing for some people and handle it with love.” Jaboor said the flight attendant’s bubble trick made her day too. She was moving away from Orlando with that flight, and says seeing flight attendant’s kindness helped lift her spirits.
Sometimes all it takes is a stranger to make a flight a pleasant experience.
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I fly constantly for work and I can definitively say that Southwest is average, United is the worst and American rocks based on who gives me free booze. They’re all pretty bad until they refuse to hire or retain stewardess under 50 years old
Yes-Every flight that we’ve been on has a pleasure.
Bump that!
And that’s why parents are advised to bring something for the baby to drink during takeoff and landing. Drinking (well, swallowing) automatically equalizes ear pressure.
I learned long ago how to voluntarily flex the muscles in my eustachian tubes, so ear pressure was never a problem for me when flying.
Two years ago I flew Southwest on Thanksgiving day. The flight attendants were hilarious and it was probably the best flight I’ve ever been on.
First time I brought my wife home she ran into the same thing. Stewardess was trying everything to help as she understood it was tremendously painful. Combination of drinking water, chewing gum, and blowing her nose wasn’t working at all. Wife was in tears.
Don’t remember exactly how we fixed it, but eventually it just went away. She never had the problem again.
mmmm bubbles....
Personally I would never take an infant our young child on an airplane in the first place. Or take them out to a fancy restaurant. It always amazes me when children run around a restaurant screaming and climbing on chairs and tables and mom and dad think it’s cute. Just amazing.
I suppose if you were moving overseas then you would have to take your young kids on a plane. Otherwise, not so much.
I talked once with the mother of infant triplets and asked her what she does when they all cry at once. She smiled and said, “I just listen.”
I agree, I'd rather not have a crying baby next to me. However since becoming a parent, while I hate the noise, I have great compassion for the parents. Well, if they are dilligently trying to comfort / quiet the kid and seem mortified then I smile and ignore it because I know how it is. If, on the other hand, they act like they don't notice or care, then I get really annoyed but not at the baby.
Same problem here... until I found a product called “Ear-Planes”.... basically ear plugs that pressurize slowly....
Life saver....
“Best” flight attendant is a pretty low bar these days.
They don’t have flight attendants on greyhound. The service and the smell is about the same.
I had to fly alone with my baby to CA. I was bone tired but had to hold my baby, as they sit on your lap.
a SW attendant took her and walked her up and down the aisle, and even passed her around so I could get an hour of sleep. I apprediated that. The older people who held her got a kick out of it, too.
I love that stuff - sort of restores what little faith one has in human beings.
I always feel sorry for parents whose children melt down on planes. Often it is their ears and the noise of the plane bothering them. Every parent should pack bubble juice.
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