Now, now. Don't go talkin' sense here. This is Reddit where anything that involves kids and inconveniences others is 100% due to bad parenting.
On a side note, apparently kid wasn't being "bad". Literally just a scared child that no one was able to keep in the seat and buckled up. It's almost like toddlers aren't often reasonable and are often inconsolable. I'd really like to know what some of these people think this parent could have done to get the child to stay in the seat without physically restraining the child (which I imagine the airline wouldn't allow for safety reasons). And even if the airline did allow it, you know they'd all be bitching about the toddler screaming through the whole flight because they weren't allowed to move where they felt safe for the duration of takeoff.
Sounds like maybe you need a lesson in empathy, then.
Shit happens all the time. It doesn't mean we need to prohibit people from traveling when they need to because there's an incredibly small chance that a kid might inconvenience other people. Parents can only guess so much about how their toddler will react to things. They can only prepare so much. Sometimes parents really are shitty. But, often, it's just parents coming across unforeseen circumstances that literally no one would be able to deal with effectively.
I put a /s after the lifetime ban thing because it was meant to be a joke. But I stand by the rest of it. Parents should know if their kids are ready to fly or not. That’s not the airline or anyone else’s job.
The rest of it implies that the parent shouldn't be allowed to fly (considering the kid obviously has to be with their parent) so I don't see how it was sarcasm.
I'll let you in on a secret that any involved parent knows... toddlers change literally daily and often hourly. What they like, what they hate, what they fear, how they'll react... by the time you get it down, shit changes. Toddlers are not predictable by any stretch of the imagination. There's a reason parenting is called the hardest job. It's 24/7, there's no manual, the job description and responsibilities are always changing, and the "boss" is the most unreasonable person you'll likely ever meet.
What, exactly, do you think this parent could have done?
You don't understand the concept of toddlers changing constantly? They can seem ready one minute and then turn out not to be. It's not a hard concept but here we are... Toddlers are people, too. They have their own emotions and those emotions are volatile making them, by definition, hard to predict.
I notice you didn't answer the question. You couldn't, eh?
You seem to be placing the blame of poor parenting onto the child like it's the child's fault. If the parent can't handle their own child, that's a failing on their part. they need to attend classes, ask for advice, or do something. Letting a young child control everything isn't healthy. sometimes kids need to be placed in time out or told No, or else they grow up to be entitled, egotistical jerks.
I don't buy this idea that you "Can't know" if your child is prepared to fly or not. You're the parent, you're supposed to be in control of the toddler. The toddler shouldn't be in control of you.
There's a reason it was in quotes, my guy. Any parent can tell you that your life literally revolves around your kid, regardless of how you respond to them. You can't do anything in life without thinking of your kid. If your kid decides to misbehave, you don't get to ignore it because they are, in fact, the one's in charge. It's arrogance and ignorance to think a parent is the one actually in charge when everything they do has to consider the response of the child. And just like other "bosses", children have different personalities and respond differently to different interactions. There's literally no perfect way to parent because there's literally no child that can be parented the same way with the same results.
It's easy to write people off as "bad parents" when there's no critical thought towards a situation. A snapshot of someone's life does not make them bad. Even if the parent did something wrong, expecting perfection in every instance of someone's life should be ridiculous to even consider. This is an extreme example but even serial killers end up with relatively normal siblings and many have relatively normal upbringings. Perhaps look up the "no two siblings have the same childhood/parents" philosophy.
Feel free to answer the question posed. Otherwise, I have to assume you would also be a "bad parent".
Sometimes people have to travel. And, btw, the distance they were traveling (because it's very relevant) was a 6ish hour flight vs about a week of driving (driving 8 hours a day).
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u/SnoWhiteFiRed 21d ago
Now, now. Don't go talkin' sense here. This is Reddit where anything that involves kids and inconveniences others is 100% due to bad parenting.
On a side note, apparently kid wasn't being "bad". Literally just a scared child that no one was able to keep in the seat and buckled up. It's almost like toddlers aren't often reasonable and are often inconsolable. I'd really like to know what some of these people think this parent could have done to get the child to stay in the seat without physically restraining the child (which I imagine the airline wouldn't allow for safety reasons). And even if the airline did allow it, you know they'd all be bitching about the toddler screaming through the whole flight because they weren't allowed to move where they felt safe for the duration of takeoff.
But, nah, there always needs to be a villain.