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Originally Posted by 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.
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I do understand what you're saying, but being in a plane is a lot different than being in a restaurant. When they turned the plane around, that was way too far. The kid was just repeating a sentence. He wasn't screaming, crying, crapping, etc. I think the people on that plane, especially that snarky flight attendant (I would have had to been a human shield had this happened with our family; my wife would have killed her on the spot) could have been more understanding. I get that some people don't like, or even hate kids. Some of them smell funny. They don't follow social norms because they haven't developed the necessary maturity yet. Still, people put up with people who've used too much after-shave, with fat people in spandex, etc. I would classify this under much the same thing: the planet doesn't belong to one person, so you have to learn to reasonably live with the existence of others be they good to have around or not.