[dead]

He's two years old. He doesn't need to be spanked.

He needs to be picked up, put in the chair, and buckled.

This shouldn't be complicated.

[Calpernia]

I agree Dead. NONE of my kids liked the child seat in the car. Just pick them up and put them in. Every one of my kids kicked and screamed over it. Just tell them they have to sit here. Put them in. That's it. Any other discussions or actions (including a spank) feeds their tantrum.

[FourPeas]

Exactly. It's simply not that hard to overpower a two year old and strap them in a seat. I've done it multiple times with my youngest in his carseat and it has a two-piece puzzle-type buckle. You'd think between five (or was it six) adults someone would have thought of this.

[jimt]

He's two years old. He doesn't need to be spanked.

On the contrary, that's the best time.

If sweet reason and cajoling doesn't work, after appropriate warnings a spanking can be very salutory.

My daughter was younger than that when she decided it would be fun to kick - hard - when her diapers were being changed. One correction, one warning and finally a promise that the next kick would get a spanking, she did it again.

Three whacks on her diapered behind, hard enough to hurt but not to injure, were VERY effective.

SO effective that I never had to spank her ever again. EVER !

She's thirteen now, and obviously beyond spanking, but judiciously applied it's a good thing to do.

[Corin Stormhands]

He needs to be picked up, put in the chair, and buckled.

Exactly. But surrogate parents (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) often have trouble forcing a child to behave. It's a constant problem when my wife's sister keeps our 5-year-old. She'll tell us "He wasn't ready to go to bed." It's not his flippin' decision.

I still shake my head over the time the same sister and her (and wife's) parents were at our house with our then 8-year-old and his new puppy. Because they ~couldn't~ find the key to the back door (same as the front BTW) and becasue the 8-year-old said "the dog has to be trained only to go out the back door," they let the dog pee on the carpet.

Not the dog's fault. We rubbed their noses in it...

[TChris]

He's two years old. He doesn't need to be spanked.

He needs to be picked up, put in the chair, and buckled.

This shouldn't be complicated.

Thank you! Spanking a two-year-old is mostly a waste of time. I reserve very mild swats for times when its needed to get my child's attention in the midst of a tantrum, but it doesn't sound like this lad was that bad off. If the crew would have shown a little patience, I'm sure he could have been persuaded or pulled from under the seat by his grandparents.

Its just astounding to me how utterly helpless some adults can become when faced with a difficult child. Police pull out the Taser, schools expel and now airlines boot them off as if they're a violent drunk! Pathetic.

[BellStar]

And everyone on the plane would have had to listen to the bratty two-year-old Marcello Ferrand scream bloody murder all the way from Milan to Heathrow. The Pilot and crew did the right thing.