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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Flight attendant asked family for child to turn down iPad sound. Parent told child some people asked to turn the sound down and child did so. When we landed we were a little surprised to see that that kid was more likely in the 5-7 age range.

For me, I will get a second pair of noise canceling headphones as I had lent my other pair to DC to use while studying for finals. I am still baffled at some of the replies here on how the choices are either iPad sound on or screaming kid. We used to plan out a series of discrete activities for the plane and pack accordingly when our kids were young. So we might read aloud in quiet voices, color, match stickers to images, etc. I packed snacks/lunches in bags with lots of things to unwrap to take up travel time.

I grew up with a sibling with a developmental disability so am quite familiar with a neurodivergent world from a very early age. Parents can still try to model what their children should strive for in public as well as how we can all extend grace when most needed. [/quote]

I'm the ipad or screaming poster. I will say for a short flight (2 hours or less) we don't bring out the iPad at all. For a cross country flight, the activities only last us so long. And when we do bring it out, the volume is quite low, which is probably why we have never been asked to turn it off. If you insist that it must have been too loud anyway, I can only tell you that I myself could barely hear it, and maybe "extending grace" can include not feeling the compulsion to assume we were torturing our fellow passengers when you weren't even there.

I'm glad you were able to entertain your kids for so long. We have only taken a few flights with DD. Bear in mind, not everyone flies for every vacation/holiday. We mostly drive to see family, as do most of our friends. Maybe we are not as savvy as you (and are also not destroying the planet as much as you, fwiw).[/quote]

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