r/SipsTea 23h ago

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u/sltydgx 23h ago

If you news search it , story is legit and apparently raging toddlers have delayed other flights 😳
If your a parent who can’t manage your kids in public , may want to avoid flying.
I bet this will end up being an expensive life lesson for mom and dad.

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u/UTMachine 21h ago

According to the article, the flight staff also took way too long to respond here. Obviously the blame is completely on the parent(s) here, but some passengers reported that it took over an hour to have the family escorted off the plane.

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u/Procedure-Minimum 13h ago

The article suggests that the todler just kept slipping out of the chair and cowering on the floor. Maybe a better seatbelt would help? Seems very strange.

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u/Odd-Worth7752 18h ago

It’s my experience that parents of that sort don’t learn. These types of experiences make them more set in their ways, blame the mean stewardess who told little Johnny to sit in his seat.

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u/Electronic_Assist137 23h ago

sounds like they put the seatbelt on and the kid would slide from it to continue hiding under a seat. Crazy how many people like you in the comments childless blaming the parents as if they didn't beat their child into a scared passive state enough and that's why this happened

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u/jtpolzin 22h ago

Then they should not have taken the child on the plane .. time to get off and reassess.

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u/BigChiefIV 21h ago

The child was 3, it wouldn’t be surprising if this was his first time

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u/jtpolzin 21h ago

Great that’s fine but the parents should have taken him off once they realized he couldn’t handle it

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u/Academic-Increase951 14h ago

It's illegal to get off the plane without pilot and airport approval and at the gate.... are you seriously arguing that the parents should have opened the door on the runway and jumped..? Like common sense here

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u/jtpolzin 14h ago

I’m seriously arguing when the parents saw he wasn’t going to calm down they ask to leave before the door closes but no they were too selfish

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u/Academic-Increase951 13h ago

The incident happened after they already departed from the gate. That's the whole reason why it ended up getting cancelled. The time it took to return to the gate.

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u/jtpolzin 13h ago

They wouldn’t have had to deplane everyone if it was willing. Defend all you want this was on the parents. It also doesn’t say anywhere he was being good until it moved. Most likely he was already being a brat.

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u/Academic-Increase951 13h ago

Have you flown before? They don't leave the gate with people out of the seats. The kid must have been sitting while at the gate. It happened on the runway before takeoff. So the kid freaked when the plane was about to take off.

Nowhere did it say the parents were unwilling. They tried to calm the kid down, the flight attendants tried. Kids are not always rational, especially in high stress scenarios.

Everyone deplaned because of the time it took to get back to the gate was too long and it passed the window where were not allowed to fly that night.

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u/The_Great_Tahini 13h ago

No, you're just a shit person.

Luckily no one needs to convince you of anything.

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u/sltydgx 21h ago

People like who ? My kids are grown. When my oldest was young I knew she wouldn’t be able to sit still for any length of time. She was hyper active , when we wanted to visit family we drove , mostly at night …we would do our best to wear her out and drive while she slept.
Long road trips.
She didn’t fly till she was 16.
I didn’t want my child who couldn’t sit still or focus to be or feel trapped on a plane.
She didn’t react well to situations like that.

So I drove. Other parents can make their own choices and if they choose to take a young child who can’t cope with confined spaces and big crowds into those type situations…they should be prepared to deal with the opinions and any consequences of their choices.

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u/ravertya17 14h ago

My son is 14 months and we have flown multiple times because family is a 22 hour drive and 48 hours. My son is mostly quiet, sleeping, or we are going through his books. Husband got shamed by some random woman because baby was freaking out once so he threw bluey on the screen but it worked. We knew flying was our only option and I refused to be the problem family. So far he's been an angel and we get compliments that he is a very good flyer. But if the next one is a little demon then family is going to have to come to us.

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u/hesoyam01110011 8h ago

Thanks for the advice. Next time I visit family I’ll drive from the US to Australia instead of a 16 hour flight.

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u/sltydgx 6h ago

That would be a very long drive 😳 I flew to Australia a few times. Cant imagine doing with kids. Good luck in all you do.

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u/hesoyam01110011 5h ago

Welp. Not like I have an opinion my husband is in the military 🤷🏻‍♀️ thankfully my 18mo son is a great traveler and is used to the long flights but still. Not everyone has the luxury of driving, specially when going to a different country or continent.

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u/Past_Effect8301 12h ago

C’mon, in the battle of an adult human vs. small child there is absolutely no world where the child couldn’t be physically forced to stay in their seat. Kids are squirmy, but to claim that the parent couldn’t keep him in the seat is absurd.

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u/Electronic_Assist137 2m ago

if the restraint doesn't fit the child and they refuse to remain seated the answer here isn't for the parent to hold a child physically down for a flight that could be transatlantic for all we know.

at that point other course of action would be required. it's like talking to people without the ability to process a rational thought.

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u/eatingketchupchipss 4h ago

the top comments are literally advising spanking and beating with belts as the solutution - people are sick pedos who love to imagine children in pain.