shakran

Well I understand what it means to be a parent. My kid behaved himself on airplanes at that age because he was taught that behaving yourself is the proper thing to do on an airplane. But then my wife and I are what you would call hands on parents. We didn't dump him in daycare, we didn't plunk him in front of the TV, or the computer. We interacted with our kid and *raised* him. (well .. still raising him, but we're long past the age when being a jackass on an airplane is a potential problem.)

I'm very happy for you if you have children. That's a wonderful thing and it's a huge sacrifice you've made in order to bring them into this world. But you do not have the right to inflict them on other people. If they're being hellions in a restaurant, or a theater, you remove them. Obviously that's difficult on an airplane, but kids generally do only what they're sure they can get away with. My kid KNEW his world would crash around him if he acted like a dick on a plane, so he didn't do it.


Now, all that said, it's impossible to really tell what the kid was doing. Was he quietly muttering "byebye plane" in which case he was being a kid, and the stew needs to be shot, or was he screaming it at the top of his lungs while constantly kicking the chair in front of him in which case he and his mom need to be kicked off, and his mom needs to be tossed into the jet engine


It could have been either of those extremes, or anywhere in between. based on that, it's difficult to judge this case.