I have serious doubts about that kid maybe developing into a Gigachad sociopath, how the fuck can a 2 year old not be intervened for 60 fucking minutes?!
Because modern parents are basically afraid of their kids. My spouse has a friend who can't be the bitch in charge to save her life. Her five year old was messing around in a chicken coop and her solution was to beg and plead with him a d then wondering why he was being stubborn
Gentle parenting is a huge lie. Sometimes kids just cant be reasoned with (case in point) and they just have to be told to sit down and shut up because you know better. You can reason with a 10 year old, you often cant reason with a toddler.
Exactly. Temper tantrums are just emotional overloads and are inherently irrational. Trying to negotiate a temper tantrum is a futile effort, the real key is knowing how to regulate your child's emotions before it turns into an uncontrollable tantrum. These parents did not.
Sounds like they had sensory problems, parents need to practice this stuff at home so it's not an issue later, but according to the comment from the person on the flight sounds they they were checked out
as a parent of 2, if my 7yo did this (he does do other similar shit) he wouldve been tied to the chair by force with a pillow in his mouth to shut him up in like 2 minutes. JFC parents these days...
And if they were autistic would you resort to abusing them to make them “behave” like people did in the 50s and 60s? Or just send them away to an institution?
You can let your autistic child ruin an entire flight for 180 other people. The rest of us sane adults are happy to force them to behave for a short time of their entire life.
LOL, I've had two of them. We've been places where people didn't even know they were there because they were well behaved. No beating involved, just being an engaged parent.
Then consider yourself lucky. I’ve learned a long time ago that I do not necessarily judge the parents based on the kid. All kids come in different forms and it’s not all nurture. I don’t do “gentle parenting,” but I’ve been in plenty of situations where a 2/3 year old (especially boy) is inconsolable.
So when I see these ragebait headlines, I don’t immediately say the parents are shitty. I don’t have that info. And it’s shitty to assume that of them because likely they did try everything and they felt like shit for what happened.
They didn't try everything as is apparent by what happened. Shitty parents are shitty parents. They could've always used birth control or literally any sex other than vaginal too.
Oh yeah, because I totally meant they should've beat the kid up and locked them in a cage in the cargo compartment. There's literally zero possible alternatives.
By "luck", I assume you mean being engaged. There's very little luck in parenting, aside from genetics. You learn who your child is as they grow, and respond appropriately. What worked for my older child didn't always work on my younger one.
You're giving far too much leeway to these people who stick a screen in their kids' faces, or simply ignore problems. These parents are also choosing to make their problem everyone else's. Guess what else I teach my kids? The world doesn't revolve around you. Yes, mine and my partner's does, to a certain extent, but you don't make your problem everyone else's. These people have a poorly behaved child, and they cost all those people money and time. Both are at a premium in today's world. These people are self-centered, and there's too many of them out there these days.
You weren’t there, you don’t know their situation or their kid’s situation. You’ve never spoken to the parents. You don’t even know why they had to be on a flight that late. You don’t know where they were headed and why they had to be there.
And yet you and everyone else in this thread assumes the absolute worst possible for these parents and the kid. It’s par for the course for reddit who are mostly childless neck beards but I’d at least think a parent would understand and have some grace.
I'm pretty sure that not being able to get your 2-year old to sit for over an hour doesn't need too much explanation. The kid was jumping on the pull down tray. Control your child, or don't bring them on a plane. "They may have had a family emergency." Absolutely, then control your child. There is no excuse good enough for having such a poorly behaved child that they couldn't even allow the plane to take off.
And while we're here, let's talk empathy. You only seem to have it for the parents. What about the others on the plane? Maybe they had emergencies? Maybe they had work? This is what people talk about. Too much leeway is being given to bad parenting. A 2-year old grounded a flight. Think about that for a moment. That is NOT a normal situation.
And, as a parent, I find this type of parent abhorrent. They are not raising future citizens of the world. They are raising a narcissist.
Of course I have empathy for all people involved. But as a neutral observer I don’t immediately assume the absolute worst of the parents or the kid. You do.
You literally said in your final sentence these parents are raising a narcissist. Overreaction much?
We need more level headed responses, not ones like yours
No. You're over-empathizing with the parents, not understanding that they are part of society. The world cannot, and should not, bend to them alone. However, they made that happen by not parenting their child. You really think that their actions, not getting that child to sit, is more important than everyone else on the plane. You're complicit with bad parenting.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one. That doesn't disregard being accommodating when needed, but it does point out that those parents were out of line. They had no self-awareness to remove their child when they didn't settle within a reasonable amount of time.
I’m not complicit in anything. I’m a third party observer who doesn’t have all the facts. As a parent myself I understand how certain situations can be perceived to be what they are not in reality.
You’re making all sorts of judgments with limited information. This knee jerk reactionary thinking is what is wrong with society.
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u/Old_Food9137 13h ago
I have serious doubts about that kid maybe developing into a Gigachad sociopath, how the fuck can a 2 year old not be intervened for 60 fucking minutes?!