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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Up to the parent to figure out a way for the kid to not see the tv, but also: my kid remembers a very violent movie of a nearby person in front of us from about 4 years ago (10 now) on a plane (he randomly brings it up when we travel: “I hope I don’t see that again, it was scary”). I get people watch what’s offered, but it would be nice if in a public situation where people don’t have that many options to move around, the airline could edit them slightly for content. This was on a long flight and my kid didn’t tell us until we got off the plane, otherwise would have moved my kid, distracted him, or discussed in real time. I wouldn’t be the mom that asked another passenger to change his behavior, but I also wouldn’t want to be the passenger that is affecting a kid negatively.[/quote]

Aw, your poor kid (I am not being sarcastic!). If someone told me that my movie was scaring their kid, of course I would change it. If they called the FA and started yelling, I might not.

A problem is that it's not always possible to predict what's going to scare a kid. My parents took me to Disney when I was like five, and we went on Mission to Mars - and I was so scared by it that they had to stop the ride to let me off. It's for kids! I was also terrified by the Muppets Take Manhattan.

You can try to be a generally decent person, and a decent person to the individuals around you, and also it doesn't give that mom the right to demand some guy four rows up stop watching The Sopranos.

This was in some ways much easier when there was only one movie playing on the flight (course then if it scared someone, there was no way to get it turned off - also they were hard to see from many seats, and if you didn't want to see that movie too bad.)[/quote]

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