Parents who let their kids use screens in public without headphones

[Anonymous]

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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?

Quite an interesting definiton of a "hissy fit". (who uses that term anyway?) So now you're popular highschooler is disabled? Mmmhmmm. I think his disability is having a stupid and self involved c@nt for a mother.

[Anonymous]

Omgosh. We had to switch tables at lunch today for just this reason. I discreetly asked to move because the chiming actually hurt my ears. My son asked why are we moving, I don’t want to move, I already drew my picture (on the table paper), bringing attn to us. I really tried to do it without causing them to even notice, but I was shocked when they did notice we were moving, they didn’t seem to even consider the reason - the screen kept blaring.

[Anonymous]

To answer the pp’s question, yes, this person is really THAT miserable.

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Quite an interesting definiton of a "hissy fit". (who uses that term anyway?) So now you're popular highschooler is disabled? Mmmhmmm. I think his disability is having a stupid and self involved c@nt for a mother.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Took our 19 month old to Europe and happily let her watch some short videos on the iPad without headphones on the plane. The white noise of the plane helped to drown it out and I am CERTAIN our row mates would rather hear a little Winnie the Pooh than hear a whiny child.

You are a jerk nd you are doing a disservice to your kid, because other parents are going to see that you are a jerk and will steer their kids away from associating with yours. Also you are an incompetent parent if you can't remember headphones or can't figure out how to entertain you kid without a screen.

Are you always this miserable?

Only when forced to be on a 9 hour flight with entitled assholes and their bratty offspring.

Did you forget your headphones? I thought airlines gave them away?

[Anonymous]

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

How hilarious that you tell someone to get over themselves when you've made the statement that you don't care about anyone but yourself via your kid.

[Anonymous]

I am someone who gets extremely annoyed by certain kinds of sounds and struggle with this a lot in public. I also take public transit, so I am constantly surrounded by people who play music without headphones, etc. One doctor that I see you somewhat regularly has a waiting room that is usually crowded when I am able to go in the late afternoon. I generally have to wait a long time and I am someone who gets extremely annoyed by certain kinds of sounds and struggle with this a lot in public. I also take public transit, so I am constantly surrounded by people who play music without headphones, etc. One doctor that I see somewhat regularly has a waiting room that is usually crowded when I am able to go in the late afternoon. I generally have to wait a long time and there are a lot of kids there, running around, watching things on tablets without headphones, once there was that as well as someone having a conversation on their phone and other noise as well… It drives me crazy. People are so inconsiderate.

[Anonymous]

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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.

PP here, and I didn't see this thread again until now.

I was toward the front of the place with DC2, who just turned 2. DH and DC1, age 4.5, were in the back of the plane. We were waiting in line for takeoff for a long time, and we start to get somber reminders from the pilot:
- "If you're using devices with sound, please wear headphones. We have some available for purchase."
- "All ticketed passengers must be in their seat at take off."
- "All devices must be in airplane mode."
- "As a reminder, all passengers must be buckled into their seats, or we are going to lose our place in line, and have to return to the gate..."

More sitting around, with increasingly loud screams from what sounded like a 2-year-old. It didn't sound like MY 2-year-old, but I thought -- you never know, maybe he is having some sort of otherworldly melt down we've never experienced.

I feel the plane turn around but the pilot doesn't say anything so I hope it was just a sharp turn.

People are turning around to stare toward the back. I am praying it's not my kid.

I text DH: "Please tell me that's not our child. Do you need help?" He assures me that it's not our kid, but the people behind him.

Pilot announces we are going back and some passengers will be deplaning. Security shows up. Their departure was uneventful.

The rundown from DH later was that the 2YO was in mom's lap watching YouTube without headphones. Flight attendant requested that he use headphones. Mom ignored. Flight attendant later requested she put the device in airplane mode. Mom ignored. Then, as we started to taxi for takeoff, flight attendant told mom the child needed to be in his seat for takeoff. Mom ignored. Continued to hold the child. Child is screaming bloody murder. Dad is across the child with 7YO and begs mom to switch. Mom ignores. Child falls asleep, and mom refuses to put him in his seat for takeoff. When she finds out they are being kicked off the plane, says, "good, I don't want to fly on an airline that hates kids anyway."

FWIW, the flight attendants were super nice and accommodating to me and my 4YO, bringing snacks and water. And to DH and our 2YO.

I felt badly for the 7YO who was with the family.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I have a hidden disability, chronic daily migraines. A complication of this is tinnitus. Most of the time my pain levels are manageable, and you wouldn’t be able to guess at my condition. I do find moderate noise levels, around 78 dB painful on my bad days. When people bring their electronic devices into public it raises the din, causing voices and background music to go up in volume as well. A lot of us with headache, tinnitus, and hearing aids are spending less time in public because of noise. No, the world isn’t obligated to be silent, but all this extra noise does come at a cost. I’ve cut back on travel and restaurants, but I can’t avoid doctors’ offices and hair salons. So, yeah, silent kids’ games, phone calls taken outside, and music streamed through headphones make big quality of life differences to a lot of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Took our 19 month old to Europe and happily let her watch some short videos on the iPad without headphones on the plane. The white noise of the plane helped to drown it out and I am CERTAIN our row mates would rather hear a little Winnie the Pooh than hear a whiny child.

You are a jerk nd you are doing a disservice to your kid, because other parents are going to see that you are a jerk and will steer their kids away from associating with yours. Also you are an incompetent parent if you can't remember headphones or can't figure out how to entertain you kid without a screen.

Are you always this miserable?

Only when forced to be on a 9 hour flight with entitled assholes and their bratty offspring.

Did you forget your headphones? I thought airlines gave them away?

On what planet do you live where the person who is NOT causing the disturbance should be the one to adjust themselves?

[Anonymous]

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

Of course it is. Imagine if everyone used the volume on their devices without headphones. Or imagine if I sat next to you on the bus and decided to listen to a podcast that wasn’t appropriate for your kid to hear without headphones. You’d be totally cool with your kid, having heard it over his paw patrol, turning to you and asking, what does f*** mean?”

[Anonymous]

My kid doesn’t use headphones but I can’t hear the audio over the din of the airplane.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I'll turn the tablet off and you can listen to DC crying and whining for the next 15 minutes.

(BTW - many 2-3 year olds will not keep headphones on their ears)

Question - would you be as ticked off if I had brought a book and was reading aloud to DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I have a hidden disability, chronic daily migraines. A complication of this is tinnitus. Most of the time my pain levels are manageable, and you wouldn’t be able to guess at my condition. I do find moderate noise levels, around 78 dB painful on my bad days. When people bring their electronic devices into public it raises the din, causing voices and background music to go up in volume as well. A lot of us with headache, tinnitus, and hearing aids are spending less time in public because of noise. No, the world isn’t obligated to be silent, but all this extra noise does come at a cost. I’ve cut back on travel and restaurants, but I can’t avoid doctors’ offices and hair salons. So, yeah, silent kids’ games, phone calls taken outside, and music streamed through headphones make big quality of life differences to a lot of us.

If you find moderate noise painful than you should wear headphones. You can’t expect everyone to be quiet for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I'll turn the tablet off and you can listen to DC crying and whining for the next 15 minutes.

(BTW - many 2-3 year olds will not keep headphones on their ears)

Question - would you be as ticked off if I had brought a book and was reading aloud to DC?

Actually, yes. I don't need your top-volume rendition of 'Chicken Soup with Rice' or whatever. If you had the good sense to manage your kids they would not be whining in public at 3. If your kids are that out of control, take them home.

[Anonymous]

Incredibly rude and inconsiderate. If your kid can't use headphones for whatever reason, then restrict screen time to your home.