Parents who let their kids use screens in public without headphones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My special needs child wouldn’t wear them as a youngster. He is more important than you. Get over yourself.

OP here. I, too, have a special needs child. He didn't like them either. Luckily it was one of the easiest skills to teach him because the motivator was so big (having the screen with sound).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doing this and refusing to use the headphones was the start of an incident we witnessed that ended with a family of 4 being kick off a flight a few weeks ago.

If you had a video of this you would be my hero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My special needs child wouldn’t wear them as a youngster. He is more important than you. Get over yourself.

No, he's really not, and nobody gives a damn about your special little snowflake. Never has and never will.

He wears headphones now. He's delightfully popular, too, as a high schooler. No headphones was a short term phase.

The world is not obligated to be silent for you, snowflake.

OP again, just reading more. So the special needs wasn't the problem. The problem was/is that his parent is a jerk. Got it, that makes more sense!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My special needs child wouldn’t wear them as a youngster. He is more important than you. Get over yourself.

No, he is not more important than me, or anybody else. You are breathtakingly selfish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My special needs child wouldn’t wear them as a youngster. He is more important than you. Get over yourself.

No, he is not more important than me, or anybody else. You are breathtakingly selfish.

You are having a hissy fit because you can't let a disabled child have some screentime because you can't be bothered to hear some music. Yeah, I'm the selfish one.

Whatever. You are going to have a long life being constantly offended by the tiniest thing. For me I was just trying to get from point A to point B and have my child not scream. Because you wouldn't have liked that either, amiright?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doing this and refusing to use the headphones was the start of an incident we witnessed that ended with a family of 4 being kick off a flight a few weeks ago.

I’d love to hear the details.

I just witnessed something like this too. The parents plopped the kids down and turned on the iPads for the kids without headsets. The flight attendant told them they had to have headsets or turn off the volume about 5 times while walking by as people were sitting down. Finally the mother said the kids (like 2 and 4) wouldn't wear headsets. The flight attendant told them then they would have to turn the volume down. They did and the kids pitched a fit. The flight attendant told them that if the kids couldn't fly without a headset or the volume off they would have to get off the plane. Then a verbal spat started and then the flight manager or someone came on and spoke to the parents who were still pissy and saying that everyone would wear headsets so what is the big deal. Then the Captain came back. Then the parents decided to take a different flight so they had time to buy headsets for the kids and everyone cheered as they deplaned.

Thanks for taking the time to explain. What ridiculous parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do this and I don’t care. It’s not that big of a deal.

Hi trashy person

I'll feel less guilty next time I tell you to turn it off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My special needs child wouldn’t wear them as a youngster. He is more important than you. Get over yourself.

No he's not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone’s child was watching something without using headphones, and the parents refused to turn the sound off after a polite request, I would simply begin watching hardcore pornography on my tablet, angling the screen so the child could see. I would, however, use headphones. Because I’m thoughtful like that.

Hahaha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My special needs child wouldn’t wear them as a youngster. He is more important than you. Get over yourself.

No, he is not more important than me, or anybody else. You are breathtakingly selfish.

You are having a hissy fit because you can't let a disabled child have some screentime because you can't be bothered to hear some music. Yeah, I'm the selfish one.

Whatever. You are going to have a long life being constantly offended by the tiniest thing. For me I was just trying to get from point A to point B and have my child not scream. Because you wouldn't have liked that either, amiright?
Your child isn't the only one with SN. The noise from your child's game might well be what triggers another kid. You don't really care about that, though.

[Anonymous]

that’s cute.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do this and I don’t care. It’s not that big of a deal.

Hi trashy person

I'll feel less guilty next time I tell you to turn it off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as the volume isn’t on unreasonably loud, I don’t really see why this is more annoying than a conversation. So, if I’m somewhere a conversation would be appropriate, I don’t really think twice about it. (FWIW, I’ve probably done it once or twice with my phone in some circumstance where a wait took much longer than expected. On a plane or at a table in a restaurant, I’d always have headphones.)

Because it's never the same volume as a conversation, and whatever garbage Larla is watching or playing is infinitely more annoying than the conversation some random person is having. Why is everyone too lazy parent their kids?

On an airplane, I actually think it’s much harder to hear most devices than conversations since people tend to talk very loudly to overcome the hum of the plane.

[Anonymous]

I do this at the orthodontist but the volume is very low. They also play music there so it's really not a big deal. They have encouraged me to bring my 2 year old instead of hiring a babysitter.

[Anonymous]

I have seen more adults have a conversation on their phone on speaker in public (!?!) than I have seen kids watching a show. I would in fact rather hear paw patrol than listen to both sides of a conversation held on speaker phone in a doctor waiting room or in line at the grocery store. Spare me now!

[Anonymous]

Adult conversations can blend together to be background noise

Stupid sound effects from video games or dialogue from kids shows never does