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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was on a 3-hour flight. Packed books, toys, cards and travel games to engage our preschooler and elementary schooler. Spent the rest of the time talking, reading quietly together, closing our eyes. [b]Walked down the aisle a few times for bathroom trips[/b], and each time, every single other family - kid on iPad, parent scrolling X or Instagram on their phone.

What gives?

(Ready for flames for being holier-than-thou, but seriously, what gives? Travel time is great for talking and engaging)[/quote]

If you are walking down the aisle 3 or so times during a 3 hour flight with young kids YOU are the annoying one.[/quote]

I hate people who walk around. I hate hearing parents talk to their kids the whole flight. They absolutely are the annoying ones. I don’t want to hear you or your kid. Kids staring at you and bumping you also very annoying.

I don’t mind babies.[/quote]

I was on a flight to California and a mom was bouncing her toddler (probably not 2 yet) in the aisle because the kid was overtired and cried otherwise.  So I'll give that mom props for trying.

Elementary kids, though, way too old to need aisle walking.[/quote]

Yeah - if you have a baby or a lap kid, I get it.  But walking a 3rd grader around the plane 3x in 3 hours is weird.  I assume that these are the parents who still put their kids in pull-ups.  [/quote]

On one flight, there was a third grader who didn’t have an iPad. For the entire duration of the flight, I listened to this kid plea and ask for an iPad. I’m pretty sure every single person around this kid wanted to smack the mom and give the kid an iPad. The kid was bored and restless, spilled snacks everywhere and knocked over the neighbor’s drink. It would have been much better for the kid to be playing Minecraft.[/quote]

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