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[quote=Anonymous]We were flying x-country yesterday and the seatbelt sign was on the.whole.flight. We took off at 1 pm, which is naptime, but 2.5 year old DS just wouldn't nap. He was fine about the first half of the flight eating, entertained by the ipad, etc but then got restless and overtired. So he started screaming (not upset, just for fun, you know the high pitched scream I am talking about), hitting and pinching me, laughing like a maniac, etc. Stern looks and "I don't like that", "you're making me angry", "you're making bad choices", etc. didn't work (he's started mimicking me when I do that - oh joy). Neither did ignoring.

What to do in that situation? grin and bear it? We couldn't walk around the plane. I gave his hands timeouts by holding them down but I didn't like restraining him physically like that. At that age, threat of future discipline doesn't work, but we were just stuck. He hardly cried except for when I handed him over to DH to see if that would settle him down - DS was in the window, I was in the middle, and DH in the aisle, and when I handed him over to DH he cried because he "needed" to be in the window seat.

We're flying x-country again in about 6 weeks and I'd like to know how to handle it better. Hopefully on that trip we'll be able to get up and wander a bit. He's generally a great kid but the combination of overtired in confined space was just a recipe for disaster. [/quote]

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