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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my son climbed into his seat, and was geting settled his feet hit the seat in front of him.  The lady turned around and yelled at him about how he better not kick or something.  It was a total overeaction.  Since I didn't want him to get yelled at again, we took off his shoes.  Since his knees didn't reach the edge, and putting them out in front of him meant they'd touch the seat, I had him sit criss cross applesauce, but over time he'd slide down and probably 3 or 4 times during the 6 hour flight, he'd go to adjust himself back up, stretching out his legs scootching back and refolding them.  A couple times (literally) his bare feet touched the seat in front of him, and she again turned around and yelled at him.
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I flew once with a lady like this.  Five-hour flight (medical-related, not tourism), me with my 18 month-old.  DS wasn't swinging his feet to "kick". It was a five-hour flight and his feet (shoes off) touched the seat in front of him.  All he had to do was twitch or shift 1 cm, and she called it a "kick" and lectured me in a stern tone about her needing to get some rest and what was I going to do about my child.  The flight attendants saw how hard I was working to keep DS perfectly still and clearly they sympathized, but couldn't do much to help.

I bought a CARES harness after that flight.  There are some situations where you just can't win.  I've had good and not-so good flights with my two children since that flight, but the one thing I can say is that nobody has accused my toddler of kicking their seat.[/quote]

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