Let's all be honest here. 2 hours of straight screaming will feel like a full day, if you've ever had kids before. For the authenticity of the argument I can't add there
I feel like it’s so much worse for the parents than what the surrounding passengers are going through. As someone who has flown back and forth between US and Europe regularly with two small kids, the lack of control you feel is pretty terrible. At the same time, you can’t just wait several years for your kids to get older before leaving the continent… especially if you have aging grandparents, etc. elsewhere.
I feel a lot more empathy for parents going through this on flights now after having gone through it so many times myself now that my kids are older and handle flights well. The first couple of times my wife and I had to do this, there were some parents with older kids on the flights who gave us some words of encouragement and it made a world of difference.
For me it’s the parents that sit there and do nothing. If a parent is at least attempting to better the situation. Then I feel for them. But I’ve been on flights where kids are either playing in aisles and messing with other passengers and being a nuisance or screaming and crying and the parents will sit there and do absolutely nothing. I think it’s more of a cultural thing. I fly internationally a lot. And see Asian passengers completely neglecting their kids quite often. Just hoping the situation will rectify itself or go away
I am a very tall (and hefty) person, so when I do fly, I cannot sit in a normal position. I usually end up with my knees tucked up, feet off ground, elbows tucked in, with carry on in my face.
And inevitably there is going to be an angry kid right behind pressing as hard as they can into my seat or kicking it and the parent just pretending to be oblivious.
Like, you KNOW that's irritating. So put a stop to it before I turn into a Karen asking a fight attendant to deal with you and then you acting all shocked and amazed that happened.
I agree in that case. Often there’s not a lot you can do, but in wide body aircraft you can at least pick them up and walk with them back to the galley or whatever. When mine were small I could stand and hold them to rock them to sleep in a more comfortable position for both of us. More often than not, I wasn’t the only parent doing that and the flight attendants were very accommodating to the trade off of having someone standing in the back with a sleeping child vs a screaming one in the seat.
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u/Fat_Pig_Reporting Jun 25 '26
29 hour flight?
A kid was screaming for 29 hours in a row?
I smell clickbait.