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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, I LOVE the idea of offering the person in the middle seat in front of you your isle seat, while you sit in front of your kicking child.  THAT is nice.  IF, of course, you're not travelling with your child alone.

If there's a way to accommodate, definitely do it.  Flight attendants might be willing to help find a group of folks who will re-organize and re-seat themselves to accommodate a kicker.  When I mean "accommodate," I mean, of course, understand that even the BEST parents can't 100% control their ornery 2-4 year old kids who are restless, tired, cranky on airplanes.[/quote]

You are wrong the Best parents, actually even the good parents can keep their kids at ages 2-4 from continually kicking a seat the whole flight. If you think it is okay for a 4 yr old to kick a seat repeatedly you do not fall into the BEST or even GOOD category of parents. And how would a flight attendant go about arranging that. "Excuse me sir, we have a parent with a tired 4 yr old who is reeatedly kicking the seat in front of them and the parent says there is nothing they can do. The person in that seat would like to move so I am wondering if you would like to sit in the middle seat and be repeatedly kicked in the back for the next few hours."[/quote]

Well, I had a 10 hour flight across the ocean and, though my 2  year old was generally pretty good the whole trip, there were times when she grew restless (no, we were not allowed to walk around), her ears hurt, she was overtired and cranky, and so on.  We held her legs as much as we could, entertained, etc. and OF COURSE we didn't think it was "okay for a 4 yr old to kick a seat repeatedly (that's really casting aspersions on my character, thank you!).  However, there were times when she got a few kicks in that we didn't intercept.  We're not pathetic parents, or pushover parents, or anything like that.  In fact, if you like, come on over here and I'll give you a spanking or a time out--whichever you prefer--for being so snarky.  At any rate, we offered to switch seats with the person in front of us (she said no thank you, and was quite pleasant about it), and we told the flight attendants that if this became a problem for the duration of the flight, we'd be willing to make some seat changes--whatever worked.  We just wanted folks to know we were alert, aware, and willing to do what it took to make the best of the situation.[/quote]

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