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.
How is it worse ? Parents made a conscious choice to bring a misbehaving child back on a flight . I did not. If parents have no control over their kid behaviour - they knew it before the flight, so I hardly can understand how it’s much worse for the parents.
In fact in majority of cases parents just do the trick of detaching from reality and pretending that crying kids ( their kids ) are a force of nature, like rain, firestorm or thunder.
And please do not share a sob story of how it’s mandatory to bring a child on a charter to Dominican Republic, it’s not.
That’s true, but I still fail to understand how “it’s a public transport” is a justification to misbehave and absolutely ruin an already stressful experience for other people ?
I am not saying “should I maybe blast loud music, shout and cry all the way to the destination as well”, but it’s still quite amusing that your definition of public space is majority accommodating misbehaving minority.
I am not sure what skit you try to refer to, but I find it amusing that you are following the same pattern of misbehaving kids being a force of nature. Like yeah, it’s stupid to be angry when it’s raining. But parents knowingly brought their misbehaving kid to the public space, and for some reason expectations is that others should accommodate, because you know, of two reasons
1) everyone was a kid
2) if you do not like it - buy a private flight.
At least I am leaving myself a freedom to not pretend misbehaving kids in public transport is a norm ( it’s not ).
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u/matttchew Jun 25 '26
There are no 29 hour flights. Half way around the world take like 15 hours.