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    It could always be worse. My cousin was adopted from China, and my aunt and uncle had to fly to China to get her. They went with a large group of American parents who were all adopting their daughters, because the Chinese adoption officials like to handle everything in groups. So they go, and they pick up their daughter, who is FREAKED at these weird-looking white people who probably smelled bizarre to her; the baby was about 14 months old and she really wanted to go home to her foster mother. To make it all worse, she was sick with an ear and sinus infection, and she had foul, painful diarrhea. So my aunt and uncle, who had never been parents before, got to take this child on three or four airplanes to get from Guangzhou to Memphis - and on the trans-Pacific part of the flight, there were SEVERAL of these babies.

    Just be glad you weren't on THAT flight!

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    Kaiyla- your story makes me glad I'm on the pill...

    But in general... sheesh! If you can't even handle taking care of one kid, why would you have like 5 of them? (thinking of the Jared situation).

    And why don't more parents give their kids dramamine (or whatever equivalent is safe for kids) so they're more likely to sleep through the damned flight?

    I think I just dislike parents who don't try to control their child's behavior, especially in public, because they don't want to be "bad" parents toward the child. No one else wants to hear your kid screaming and throwing a tantrum while you try and bargain with them!

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    I wonder if people forge they were children too at times.

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    I was a travelling baby..and a good one too, my mummy says .

    Still, not a fan of babies on planes. If one could book a kid-free flight, I'd pay extra and do it.

    Feature costumes for sale!

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    I seriously wonder the safety of flying very young clildren on planes, especially during the flu season. Seems like it would not really be worth the risk with the lack of fresh air on planes, and that the flu can be much more dangerous to the very young. Also on that note the noise level from the plane itself can be very high. Why expose them to such high decibels. While I can see not wanting to keep them in a bubble I believe that it is just not good for babies to be flying.
    I just asked my step mom what she did for traveling, and she said she did not put me nor my brother on a plane until we were about five. apparently we were such fussy babies, that she did not believe in comprimising her sanity for a flight. Mom told me that the family who really wanted to see us came to us. Add to the fact that I had indoor allergies even then, and was highly sensitive to smells.
    I would pay more for an adults only flight. The airlines should set up family flights during peak holliday season. I hate it when parents allow their children to kick the back of my seat. Then pretend like it is nothing. I also do not understand parents who refuse to understand TSA regulations and end up holding up security lines because they are trying to take all this liquid onboard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toki View Post
    Kaiyla- your story makes me glad I'm on the pill...

    But in general... sheesh! If you can't even handle taking care of one kid, why would you have like 5 of them? (thinking of the Jared situation).

    And why don't more parents give their kids dramamine (or whatever equivalent is safe for kids) so they're more likely to sleep through the damned flight?

    I think I just dislike parents who don't try to control their child's behavior, especially in public, because they don't want to be "bad" parents toward the child. No one else wants to hear your kid screaming and throwing a tantrum while you try and bargain with them!

    lmfao i hear ya!

    every time i board a plane i bitch about kids, they need to have their own sound proof section...preferably at the front of the plane (ya know, cos sitting at the back you have a higher chance of survival in a crash...thats where first and business *should* be imo)

    the one time ive never complained....travelling in business class. i swear that place is gold. not a kid in sight

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    I seriously wonder the safety of flying very young clildren on planes, especially during the flu season. Seems like it would not really be worth the risk with the lack of fresh air on planes, and that the flu can be much more dangerous to the very young. Also on that note the noise level from the plane itself can be very high. Why expose them to such high decibels. While I can see not wanting to keep them in a bubble I believe that it is just not good for babies to be flying.
    I just asked my step mom what she did for traveling, and she said she did not put me nor my brother on a plane until we were about five. apparently we were such fussy babies, that she did not believe in comprimising her sanity for a flight. Mom told me that the family who really wanted to see us came to us. Add to the fact that I had indoor allergies even then, and was highly sensitive to smells.
    I would pay more for an adults only flight. The airlines should set up family flights during peak holliday season. I hate it when parents allow their children to kick the back of my seat. Then pretend like it is nothing. I also do not understand parents who refuse to understand TSA regulations and end up holding up security lines because they are trying to take all this liquid onboard.
    First of all, a baby on an airplane is safer than a baby in a moving vehicle. If the baby is breastfed, it is especially safe because the breast milk contains immunities to any diseases that the mother is exposed to. My daughter will probably not get the flu, because she receives those immunities.

    When a parent with a child is trying to take liquid onboard, did you ever consider that maybe it is something the child needs, like a medication, formula or breast milk? Even a little juice in the sippy cup - oh dear god no. Let's blame the parents for wanting to feed the kid instead of this terrorist attack our government has done to it's own people.

    Does anyone have any compassion for children anymore these days or do we all just consider them an annoyance? No wonder they bring guns to school and feel like they aren't listened to or acknowledged. There was once a time when people helped each other out, and instead of cutting each others' throats to climb higher toward that American dream of more stress, debt and false superiority, we actually gave a shit about our neighbors and didn't consider each others' children a burden.

    People would throw a fit if this was a post about not wanting to sit next to a Arabic looking person on the plane, or how much they think black people are loud or old people smell like antacids or something. Like HHL says, we were all kids at one point. These threads where everyone is hating on kids is getting old. "Stuff the kid under the seat"? Really? You're lucky your dog didn't have to fly in the cargo section of the plane like my cats did when I moved to Cali. It's a FUCKING DOG. Not nearly the same as a child. Maybe this thread is a good barometer for how posters themselves were raised, or how unloving this westernized society has become.

    If you travel amongst the public, you gotta deal with the public. I used to be childless. Yeah, sometimes the kids screaming was annoying but I got over it the second I got off the plane. It's life. I understand that some parents don't discipline their kids but that's not what I'm talking about here. It's the insensitivity to children in general that gets to me.

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    When it comes to situations like this, I blame a bratty child on their shitty parents.
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    Also add the time it takes for the person to get to the airport with the child.

    The wait for checking in.

    Security.

    We as adults get fed up with the crap we put on with at the airport, imagen a child.

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    To be honest, I don't know why anyone flies anymore. I would so rather drive for a few days.

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    It depends where you go honey, I mean can't drive to Holland or PR and if you think a flight is bad try driving 9 hrs with a kid, oh I do not recommend it! lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Observer View Post
    Yeah, it's called the fucking cargo hold.
    Does no one beat their kids anymore?
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    ^I know, I giggled too.

    Perhpaps this thread IS an indication of how some of us were raised -I was taught to RESPECT my parents and I was raised to be a sensitive person. However, when I am forced to endure a child acting like a complete brat and his ignorant parents doing nothing to control it, it absolutely disgusts me, and naturally myself nor others will most likely extend any sensitvity a parent's way. I didn't make them miserable, their kids are making me (and 30 other passengers) miserable. At that point, your child IS an annoyance.
    Just remembered another time I traveled and a mother was sitting directly in back of me. Her 5 year old was running up and down the aisle and stopping every so often and saying "MommyMommyMommy!!" trying to get her attention. Mommy was too busy talking to the passenger beside her. The child he began violently shaking the chair in front of him *mine.* Finally, I turned around and said, "M'am can you ask your son to Please stop doing that to my chair?" Instead of an "Oh I'm sorry!" I got: "Ugh! Fine...Geez, he's five years old," to which I immediately snapped, "Yup. And you're his mother." Hint hint, you don't allow a five year old to rule the roost, you bimbo! And that's what some of these parents do, point fucking blank. Then they have the audacity to wonder why people are annoyed? Hello! If you had any clue as a parent whatsoever, you'd help him to control his behavior so he wasn't bothering others. Some people have no understanding for people who have chosen NOT to have children (immediately or ever) and don't view entertaining your child as a "game" for me to partake in, or something that needs to be a community effort. I adore well-behaved children but if yours is driving me up a fucking wall and you're sitting there with doing nothing about it, don't call me the insensitive one, you know?

    I believe what Cameron already stated -parents can at least TRY. I am understanding when I see parents even trying to attempt to remedy a situation where their child is making everyone else miserable around them. For the parents out there that do that, thank you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexxaHex View Post
    Next month will be Kembra's first plane trip to NY. She likes to be carried around a lot, so I hope she doesn't get too upset when we have to sit for a long time. I'm also worried that it will hurt her ears and she'll cry a lot from it. Sorry but I am not going to keep her from seeing her extended family because of people not liking kids. I don't like screaming babies just as much as the next person - in fact, it upsets me on another level because I am worried about her and it raises my blood pressure.
    If it bothers people that much they can fly first class. That's what you get when you fly coach - a bunch of stupid people and kids around you - like riding the bus.
    Give her something to drink during takeoff. The swallowing will help her ears "unplug". I do this with my kid and it helps.

    Also-I take my kid on walks around the plane. Just so he can get up and stretch his legs. I see parents do this all the time. It doeesn't bother me. I'd rather see them walking around the plane than hearing them scream from being antsy.
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    I don't think kids walking around the plane bothers passengers either since it's an effort to keep kids happy. Happy kids make for better behaved kids.

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    Nothing at all wrong with kids/babies on a flight. At worst it should be a little extra noise, you put your earplugs in and no prob. That's how it should be. However alot of times today you have overpermissive parents with kids with no limits kicking the seats, screaming and being disruptive. That is where the problem is and it's not the kids fault. Parents need to parent.

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    I just hope that none of you who are not parents or are "great" parents and your children are so well behaved that are saints ever deal with PPD or Depression and or other problems that may cause the parent to not be well. Every person has a shitty day, week, month, year which can cause certain behaviour where other people can look at you with "wtf is wrong with that person, ugh! parent already"

    Not every single person who gets on a plane goes because it's a vacation or a pleasant trip. Who know wth is going on in a person's life to cause them being on that plane. If the worst you have to deal with is a few hrs of "torture" from a child you probably will never see again you should be glad.

    Overwhelmed parents is something other people do not have sympathy for and it is sad to me because children are exhausting.

    Everyone is entitle to their opinions, complain all you want, it's good to let it out! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!! deep breath in and out just know that perhaps you will be in that position in which others will look at your children and you as less because of a situation that you might not have any control over, then perhaps you will say "damn"

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    Kaiyla, I'm sorry...but I think you just described someone I know...I mean, names, behavior and all. And, yes, these people DID take a trip to CA not too long ago. Yikes!

    Aside from that, Makayla always did really well with traveling. We always made sure we had plenty of things for her to do (read, color, leap pad, games, books, etc). I always packed a cooler bag full of snacks to help her as well (a hungry child is not a happy child) as airline food just doesn't cut it. She never cried once when we were flying (she's been on a plane 2 x's a year every year since she was 6 months old). Breastfeeding during take off and landing did help her a lot. Now that she's older (and not breastfeeding) I get her a pack of gum. She calls it "medicine for flying".

    I'm worried about Adrian, though, because he has to constantly be moving. Constantly. It took about 7 1/2 months to be able to put him in the car and drive to the store which was 5 minutes away before he would stop crying. Even now...if we drive long distances (more than 1 1/2 hours) he starts fussing. We go to CA in April of next year...so I'm thinking that I'll book a red-eye flight where he'll most likely be sleeping...or the most tired. Maybe I'll just keep him up all day and not let him take any naps and dose him up with Benadryl shortly before boarding (Just kidding!).

    Ehhhh...I don't like being on flights with parents who are more concerned with being liked by their kids than being parents. That is NOT fun.

    If you're ever on the flight the same time we are, you can rest assured that Makayla will draw your "portrait". She did this for all of the people sitting around us on the flight to/from CA. Gotta love it.

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    If the worst you have to deal with is a few hrs of "torture" from a child you probably will never see again you should be glad.
    Why should I endure that torture?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Observer View Post
    Why should I endure that torture?
    Then get your own private Jet.

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    Plus it could be worst, you could be a flight attendant who deals with all of this shit every single time she or he gets on a damn plane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Observer View Post
    Why should I endure that torture?
    CO.

    Venus, if it were the same people, that would be too crazy. That child truly does haunt my dreams..::shiver::: I bet your little ones will be just fine, though. You seem like the kind of parent whose right on top of it all. I would not worry too much.

    HHL I understand what you are saying; it is about extending empathy to a parent/family. However, clearly for many of the posters within this thread, there is not a lot of reciprocation of that empathy that from parents to non-parents. Look at the examples myself and others mentioned within this thread. Was there any courtesy extended our way when these people's kids ran amuck and they did nothing about it?

    There is a reason why people look the way they do (frustrated, annoyed, etc) when they see they are sat close to someone that has kids. It's most likely because they have had horrendous previous experiences, like the ones already mentioned.
    I also understand that some families are flying die to a situation that isn't "ideal" like a vacation or what not. What about the families that aren't though? For real, look at how kids act in planes. They scream because they are bored, and/or the pressure hurts their ears. Not fun. If that isn't any indication that they don't like flying, I don't know what is. Personally, if I were a parent, based on that alone, I would not put my kid, other passengers, or myself through the misery. If people want to visit, they can fly out to see me.
    It'd be so great if there seriously was a "family" section of flights where all the babies could scream as much as they wanted, and young children could run around wildly, irritating one another instead of other passengers who might possibly be ill, overtired, stressed, or traveling due to unfavorable conditions themselves. Again, not a whole lot of empathy being extended their way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Observer View Post
    Why should I endure that torture?
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    When boarding I check to see where the babies are and any child under 5 are sitting then I sit far far far away even if it is the back of the plane. Next time, ear plugs or ipod.

    Its only worse when the parent does nothing to shush their kid up. They let them cry cry cry..no bottle, binky, toy or attention...nothing. They just let them annoy the whole plane.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexxaHex View Post
    "Stuff the kid under the seat"? Really? You're lucky your dog didn't have to fly in the cargo section of the plane like my cats did when I moved to Cali. It's a FUCKING DOG. Not nearly the same as a child.
    Ummm...no. The DOG's owner has to pay for a seat the dog isnt even allowed to use while the child who screams and causes a disturbance is allowed to fly free?? Sorry....nothing against kids(and YOU are really the one who takes such personal offense at anything kid related...god FORBID anyone NOT love everything related to children ever since you got sperminated...kids can be great and they can also be a HUGE pain in the ass..esp when they arent YOURS and you are forced to deal with them anyway)

    And I'd not want my dog, cat or any other pet in cargo hold OR stuffed under a seat....they ARE my children. Esp when the human children get to fly free and DONT have to be stuffed under a seat...but rather are free to scream yell and kick the back of the persons chair in front of them.

    If children get to fly free...so should pets. Sorry....but thats only fair. I've seen many a pet in the cabin and never had one cause a disturbance. Seen MANY children do though..while most parents sit there and do nothing because..well..its their angel and they dont want to punish them. And they know damn well theres nothing anyone can do...what will you do? Throw them off the plane? NO of course not...so Junior screams bloody murder for 5 hours. Fun.

    And I dont blame parents for wanting to bring a juice cup...but rules are rules. Stupid ot not.If I'm not allowed...neither are you just because you have a kid. They have juice on the plane..get it there. Dont hold up the security line for 20 minutes arguing why YOU shold be exempt because you dont want your kid drinking the planes apple juice(which is fucking free anyway so shut up and empty the damn sippy cup and board the plane)

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