Is it rude to give a 2 or 3 year old a seat on a shuttle bus?
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Anonymous
| Is it rude to let 2 or 3 year old child have a seat on a shuttle bus, such as on a shuttle that takes passengers from an airport gate to the plane? |
Anonymous
| Absolutely not. The child is safer when seated. If I am traveling solo I give my seat to families. |
Anonymous
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Do you mean the circumstance where
1. There are plenty of seats, and the child takes one like everyone else, or 2. There aren't enough seats, but there are only able-bodied people who aren't overly inconvenienced by standing (eg, carrying something heavy they can't put down, pregnant, etc.), or 3. There aren't enough seats, and there are people standing who are at higher risk of pain or distress? |
Anonymous
| And the alternative? Let the child stand? |
Anonymous
| In what circumstances? If there were a lot of children who needed seats, or other people, I would put the child in my lap if possible. Use ABC. Always Be Considerate. |
Anonymous
| I’d put the kid in my lap to make room for someone else to sit. |
Anonymous
Put them on your lap. Yes, op, if an adult is standing, you should offer to take your child on your lap so the other adult can sit. To not do so is rude. |
Anonymous
| No, it is not rude. Children are people. |
Anonymous
| If there weren’t enough seats, I would probably put my child in a seat and stand myself. I don’t think it’s rude for all of you to sit in a seat though. Your child is a person and is entitled to a seat. |
Anonymous
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It depends on the circumstance. I think a two or three-year-old needs to sit more than an able-bodied healthy adult. Their balance is off. However, if there are no seats but I have a seat then that child sits on my lap so that somebody else can have their seat.
If I am on the bus or metro and a two-year-old is standing, I will give that mom and child my seat. |
Anonymous
| Children can sit on laps freeing up a seat for another adult. That way more people are seated as the child is still seated and now another adult is too. |
Anonymous
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Not at all, unless there aren't enough seats and then of course you take the kid on your lap. We've taken countless airport shuttles over the years, and this is what most people do. There is the occasional clueless or very fatigued parent (at the end of a long plane ride) who doesn't, but that's life. |
Anonymous
| I have a 2yo. I would put child on lap so standing adult could sit. |
Anonymous
| If there aren’t enough seats, I would usually put my child on my lap. However, one of my children has autism and if she was determined to have her own seat, I’d let her sit and give up my seat. I’m not going to lie though, she recently had a meltdown on an airport people mover because she was determined to have me sit in a seat next to her and I didn’t sit down at first...and she’s way older than 3. If the two of us taking up two seats alleviates a very tense and stressful situation, then we will do that unless I see someone who really ought to be sitting (a toddler, obviously pregnant woman, an elderly person, someone with an obvious injury or physical disability). |
Anonymous
If I can't keep my kid on my lap on the plane and have to pay for a seat, my kid gets their own seat on the shuttle bus, too. |