Comments on: What’s worse than snakes on a plane?

By: Marcia

Marcia — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:27:39 +0000

It makes me sick how people say that we should drug children before they fly. The person (Sheldon)who swore on this website sounds like a two year old himself. He should be more mature and use more proper words to express himself. It is so sad that adults foreget what it is like to be a child. Children are our future and we should not treat them like slugs on the road. So what is the child cries throughout the flight, buy earplugs when you fly so that you can wear them if this happens. Sometimes it is an emergency and children must fly with their parents. These comments on this site make me so angry. Children should not be thrown off flights if they cry. I agree, parents should try their best to keep the children under control, but sometimes it is not possible. Children should be in their own seats. I agree with that. It is the safest way to travel. I swear, sometimes it seems like we treat animals better than children. Just remember, you might be a parent someday and have to deal with this. CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE…NOT ANIMALS!!!! THEY SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH!!! Maybe if the people on these flights talked to and/or played with the children on these flights it might stop the crying and the adults might end up having fun, too!

By: Me

Me — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:06:51 +0000

The best alternative would be giving the FA and other annoyed passengers sedative themselves so that they can not hear the 20-30 db voice of a baby. If they refuse, they’re the ones who should be kicked off the plane.

This baby was just talking repeatedly for a couple minutes, and he was not even screaming. Guaranteed, even babies won’t talk repeatedly for the whole 45 minute flight. You’re all once babies too, people. Get a life.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:02:27 +0000

I assume most of the above crazy individuals do NOT have children. I fly often with my four year old and I do not LET him scream or misbehave. I am a very strict mother. However, he does scream and he does act up. It’s not that I am letting him do it he just does it. We have landed before and for the last 15-20 minutes of a landing my son has scremed his head off. I have tried small amounts of gum and juice and sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t and it is painful. I have sat surrounded by children who have parents that let them act anyway they want. Normally these aren’t the crying children. They are content due to the fact that they can get their way. Children under two have barely if any concept of “Hey we are flying and joe two isles up wants to sleep so please keep it down” I say to those of you who have a problem with children flying to go jump off a cliff! I will continue to fly with my child on a routine basis if you don’t like it too bad! I paid for the flight too and I have to put up with your crappy attitude and comments so you can put up with my kid. Oh and to the mother who questioned how safe it was for a mother to have her child on her lap during a flight. If a plane crashed over the Atlantic while my son was on my lap or in a seat of his own chances are he will still die. We will all die! I very rarely see news reports of a plane crashing and 200 people survive!

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:41:51 +0000

I don’t think the child who delayed the flight because he wouldn’t get into his seat can blame his inner ear for his behavior.

There is one thing worse than listening to screaming children on a long flight – paying for a first class ticket and listening to screaming children.

By: gjd

gjd — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:06:06 +0000

On a recent flight from Hong Kong to New York, I found my cabin partially populated with American couples returning from a tour to China to adopt (buy) babies.

Thirty happy couples who had no clue how to silence their screaming infants for 16 hours.

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:01:26 +0000

Ummm, sometimes people HAVE to travel via airplanes to visit families… Half of my family lives in Europe and the other half in the US, so yeah, there were some long trans-Atlantic flights when I was a young child. Apparently (I don’t remember it) I screamed from Paris-NY when I was about 2 years old. I wanted to run in the aisles. The problem stemmed from the fact that someone told my parents that giving valium to a child would calm them down… Apparently, they gave me half of one, and as is commonly the case in young children it had the opposite effect on me as it would an adult- it made me hyper. My parents, who both have master’s degrees, decided to give me the other half to see if it would make a difference. It didn’t. My mother said that she walked me up and down the aisles as much as she could during that flight, but I pretty much screamed for most of the flight. Surprisingly, we continued to visit my French relatives throughout my childhood. Lesson learned through this experience: don’t give small children Valium before flying on planes.

By: CropTillDawn

CropTillDawn — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:31:08 +0000

I like kipper’s idea of the Kiddie flight, the movies theaters in my area have one showing a week just for parents and babies. I have two small active(1 ADD) children and people would have this look of dread on their face when they had to sit near us. But as we got off the plane I would get multiple thanks on how good my kids were from the other passengers :) Let me tell you it is HARD WORK! I’m like Felix the Cat with his bag of trick! I have Dramamine, Tylenol, ear drops, gum, wipes, juice boxes, snacks, a zillion new travel toys, cards, paper, crayons, books. Of course your hubby is sleeping with his Bose noise canceling headphones on and you really want to hit HIM with the rolled up inflight magazine LOL!

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:00:51 +0000

There is so much venom in some of these comments. Yes, it’s annoying when children cry on flights – and yes, I have been annoyed to the point of wanting to scream myself at them or some of the obnoxious adult passengers I’ve encountered.
The individualist idea has gotten out of hand these days. “I’m so much more important than everyone else, how dare you subject me to anything that may cause me temporary discomfort. And how DARE you bring a child into the world and deign to bring it along on trips!”

Like someone mentioned before – very young children often don’t understand what’s going on, and their inborn response to pain is to cry. Unlike adults, the idea of tolerance or self-control hasn’t congealed in their brains yet.
Learn compassion. Or drive your cranky butt where you want to go.

By: Korin

Korin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:57:40 +0000

yes… the horrid screaming children. Last time I was on the plane with a group of people, a kid started screaming so we made a nuisance of ourselves. It distracted the kid but had passengers staring about curiously… one of the girls in my group can do a perfect imitation of a chihuahua, which was rather bewildering to hear on a plane where no passengers are allowed. :)

By: maggie

maggie — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:08:22 +0000

I was on a 9 hour flight in the same plane as a screaming, spitting up brat who insisted on looking over the back of the seat. his mom was just reading a book with her Ipod glued to her ear, completely oblivious to the stench from his butt till he pulled a turd out and wiped it on my leg at which point i tapped her on the head and said”do something with your child” she acted as if I was a demon from hell and started saying “Ohhh look at the meanie meanie like a little poopie will kill her” then he started flinging milk from his bottle so I snatched it a squeezed it on her head. she moved with her brat to another seat, GOOD FOR ME!!!!!