Ban Kids On Flights

Murphy_The_Cat

Inactive wrote: »

Obviously the comments of one of the offending bad parents.

Children are the responsibility of their parents/guardians, nobody else should need to intervene to rectify their actions.

perhaps you live in a parallel universe where everyone does what they should do, when they should do it and in a timey and appropraite fashion, rather than in the universe that I live in, where people frequently need to be asked to do things for the advantage and betterment of the majority.

dickydonkin

Inactive wrote: »

Children are the responsibility of their parents/guardians, nobody else should need to intervene to rectify their actions.

Which should be true of course - but as highlighted on this thread on numerous occasions, many parents are just not willing to 'rectify the actions' of their children.

In an ideal world, nobody should 'intervene', but if the parents won't do anything, are you suggesting that those kids should be left to their own devices and make everyone elses life a misery?

I am not just referring to kids on flights either.

Nicki

Inactive wrote: »

Agreed, some people seem to try to excuse bad parenting, there is no excuse, nobody should need to " ask " any parent to control their children.

However there is also a difference between a six year old child deliberately kicking the seat in front which will be obvious to a parent and can be expected to be stopped, and a wriggling toddler whose legs are so short they jostle the seat in front every time they move. That is much less obvious to the supervising parent, and so they are unlikely to notice that it is causing a problem unless you point it out politely (and even then there may be little they can do if swopping seats round is not possible.

Much as we'd like to, it is frowned upon these days to put children in full body strait jackets, and some degree of fidgetiness is inevitable with young children. It's just unfortunate that airplanes are designed such that little legs do hit the seat in front when they are too short to bend and if the seat in front is reclined it makes matters a lot worse.

iME anyway!

Hastobe_Katt

It was quite definitely the former. Sorry but some parents think that, because they are on holiday, they can abdicate responsibility for their children - or maybe they do that when they are not on holiday too?

I recently saw a ten year old, who had been left outside the supermarket by his mother (presumably so she could shop in peace and quiet). While she was in the store he was running over the tops of the chained up shopping trolleys - narrowly missing falling off and with complete disregard to any damage he might be doing. I told him to get off as he was probably going to hurt himself - and he did. As I was leaving the car park in my car I noticed he was back on the trolleys again. So I pulled my car over, told him to get down and frogmarched him into the store to the store manager - who put a call out for his mother. The 'shrivel and die' looks I got from his mother had to be seen to be believed. No doubt I was tarred as an 'interfering cow'. It would be interesting to see what would have happened if her son had fallen from the trolleys and broken his leg. I'm guessing it would have been a damages case against the store then.

Some parents are just irresponsible and bone idle to boot. But these are often the same parents who will turn on you if you dare to correct their precious Damiens, Kylies etc

Murphy_The_Cat

Hastobe
Further up the thread I asked you what was the parents response when you asked them to control their child more consideratably (should have said in a more considerate manner), but I can't find your response.
What was the result ?

Inactive

Nicki wrote: »

However there is also a difference between a six year old child deliberately kicking the seat in front which will be obvious to a parent and can be expected to be stopped, and a wriggling toddler whose legs are so short they jostle the seat in front every time they move. That is much less obvious to the supervising parent, and so they are unlikely to notice that it is causing a problem unless you point it out politely (and even then there may be little they can do if swopping seats round is not possible.

Only ones that are ignoring what their little darlings are doing.

More excuses for bad parenting.

DUKE

I once did a 10 hour flight with some little s*** kicking me in the back! :eek:

Put them all in 1st class as there's more room for them to run around in there :-D

Hastobe_Katt

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

Hastobe
Further up the thread I asked you what was the parents response when you asked them to control their child more consideratably (should have said in a more considerate manner), but I can't find your response.
What was the result ?

My husband asked them if they could ask their child to stop kicking - the father told him to f*** o**.

Murphy_The_Cat

Hastobe_Katt wrote: »

My husband asked them if they could ask their child to stop kicking - the father told him to f*** o**.

& then when you asked the FA to help you, what happened ?

essential

On last year's Easyjet flight to Sharm we purchased Speedy Boarding and got on the plane before anyone else. We chose 4 seats near the front of the cabin.

Next on came the families with children under the age of 5 who also chose to sit in the front of the cabin. There were several very young babies and one or more or them was crying throughout the flight.

So on the way back we boarded the flight first and chose seats towards the back of the cabin and watched as the families with children boarded and chose their seats at the front. We were feeling very pleased with our choice until we were in the air and the babies started to cry one by one and the stewardesses suggested that they bring their babies into the galley area at the back of the plane. For 5 hours there was a constant stream of mums and dads parading up and down the back of the plane next to our seats with their screaming offspring.