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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i am a very frequent flier and have been on both sides of this.  it is really not that complicated.  parents need to engage in their best efforts to keep things under control.  non parents need to recognize that kids are people too and are entitled to use air travel, that no parent has 100 percent control of a child's behavior, and that reasonable allowances must be made.  parents need to understand that certain things are completely unacceptable (seat kicking being the best example) and that people encountering such behavior have every right to be angry about it.  tension is high on these issues because airlines have gotten so good at managing load factors that planes are now almost always full, so flying sucks generally for all[/quote]

My DS has flown to Europe, Asia, and to the west coast in the two years since he was born, and some flights were great and some were not so great.  [b]He's actually been the best in business/first class, maybe because there's more room and it's not as stressful[/b] (for everyone but me, as I was desperately praying that he would not aggravate our fellow passengers). I am a frequent flyer for work and I know how it feels to get on a plane and see that you're sitting next to a baby when all you want to do is sleep, but hey, that's how it goes sometimes.  Flying isn't fun for any of us.[/quote]

I was just going to say that!  My kids have been the best behaved while in business class because a) the seat ahead of you is too far away to kick and b) there so much more room for the kids to play.

I've flown many times with my kids, the most difficult time being when the kids are between 1-3 years old.  It's tough trying to keep your kid's feet from kicking the seat in front of you, especially when your child's legs are too short to bend over the edge of the seat and thus stick straight out.  We've sat there holding our kids' legs to keep them from kicking for the entire flight.  lol  However,  I remember one notoriously horrible flight from Europe to the U.S. on an incredibly cramped plane.  My baby was uncomfortable and crying, and nothing we could do except stand up and rock her would work.  The aisles were full, so we went to the middle area where the flight crew hung out.  Even though my baby had stopped crying by then, I was told to sit back down because we were "too close to business class and would disturb them."  At that point, I just sat down as told and let my baby scream; I think I cried as well.  We were two rows from business class, by the way, so I'm sure the screaming bothered them anyway.[/quote]

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