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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's tough to fly with kids!  The kids put their feet on the seat not to be annoying most of the time, but because they are too short and their feet don't touch the ground.  Then their parents give them toys to play with that often involve the tray table and it turns out the people in front of them can feel the tray table.  And, you're giving them this stuff to do because people complain if they are too noisy!  Ha.

Once someone in front of us asked me/my kid to stop kicking.  The kid wasn't kicking but I guess doing something with the tray table that I didn't realize she could feel.  [b]I am a non confrontational person and I suppose I would have been annoyed at anyone who asked me or my kid to stop. [/b] We were not trying to be discourteous in the first place.  I just said - oh sorry and then freaked out the rest of the trip any time my child moved an inch.  [/quote]

Huh? YOU would be annoyed at anyone who asked you or your kid to stop.  Wow, you are a piece of work.  [/quote]

Yes, because we were trying not to bother them in the first place so I felt pressure like anything we do will bother you and I wanted to get off the flight ASAP.  I didn't say anything to them, other than "oh, sorry!"  I wasn't like - F U!  If the latter, then you could say I'm a piece of work ;)[/quote]

So passenger paying the same amount of you should sit silently while kid behind is bothering him/her so you (the parent) doesn't feel pressure.  Get outta here. [/quote]

I'm just saying the person on the receiving end isn't always going to be thrilled no matter how you do it.  I personally err towards not saying anything to avoid confrontation but to each his own I guess. Once I was also on a train and someone behind me was playing with their phone loudly. It was annoying but I didn't say anything. Someone in front of me turned around and screamed at me because they thought I was doing it. [/quote]

I have similar anxiety as you. Please dont pass it on to your kid. Teach your kid to speak up for themselves.  The last thing I want my kids to be is a door mat like I was growing up. [/quote]

That's an interesting take. I thought I don't want them to be like the person who turned around and yelled!  But there is probably a medium and I shouldn't take the person on the plane personally either :). [/quote]

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