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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really depends on how outgoing your kid is. My oldest could never do that- he would be too afraid and too shy to say something if he needed help. He would be a nervous wreck. My younger son who is five I really could picture flying alone and having a great time.  He is really outgoing, will be the first to speak up or ask a question, and figures out things. When we send both boys to the snack bar alone during a baseball game, the youngest likes to hold the money and order the food. Our oldest said last time someone tried to cut in front of them and the little one spoke up and said to get behind them. He is a cute, friendly kid who people notice and help out.

If you have to do it OP, I would find a family who is flying on the same flight in the waiting area and ask them to keep an eye on him just in case too. If a single mom asked me to do that on an overseas flight, I would totally keep my eye on the kid and check on him during the flight. [/quote]

The sheer idiocy that some of you display is amazing to me. So you would walk up to some random family in the waiting area of a major airport and say. "Here 'a my five year old ! You don't know me and I don't know you but would you watch her for the next 15 hours?"

Hopefully - for your kids sake - the airlines are smarter than you and op and would not even allow this [/quote]

The airline stewardess would be watching the kid. If someone came up to me while I was waiting for a plane with my family and explained that their kid was flying solo and the airline attendant was watching them, but if I wouldn't mind keeping an extra eye on him, I totally would. I would get up every couple of hours and walk over to where the kid was sitting and ask if they were OK. That doesn't take a lot of time or energy. On my last flight there was a mom flying alone with her infant seated next to our family. I told her if she ever needed to go to the bathroom, I would hold her baby for her.  Three hours into the flight she did have me hold her infant.  In other countries people help out more I think.[/quote]

First of all, they are called flight attendants, not "airline stewardess."

And no, her job is not to watch the kid. She has a planeload of 250 - 300 people, maybe more, to serve and keep safe. She is not your nanny or babysitter.[/quote]

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