Reply to Airplane seating situation

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "Airplane seating situation "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like your 3 year old did fine in her own seat. She watched her videos and sat on your laps. Not all 3 year olds are unable to be separated from their parents by a row.

You have to know your kids and how much independence they have had experience with.

In this case it worked out fine.[/quote]

There’s something really wrong with you. My kids have tons of independence. So much so that I’ve been accused on this forum of being so far in the free range camp that I’m not a fit parent. And I would never let my 3 year old be away from me on a flight. That’s totally insane.

There could be an emergency on the flight and everyone need to apply their oxygen masks. Do you really think the obnoxious people who wouldn’t switch with a lone 3 year old would look after her in an emergency when the plane is out of control and nobody can breathe? What about when they need to exit the plane quickly in an emergency and that animal who wouldn’t switch literally stampedes over the child to escape? Small kids need protection and a lot of help in those situations.

And child molesters are unfortunately all around us. Since you’re spouting on about independence in children you should know that sometimes this makes them more susceptible to it. And crimes happen all the time on flights. There are a lot of people but views are obstructed and people are uncomfortable and exhausted and preoccupied thinking about themselves. It’s also hard to hear conversations over the airplane noise. Planes are really fairly private places.

It may have worked out okay in this case for OP’s kid (and I say may since how can we possibly know what actually happened when we weren’t there to see it all) but if so then it was blind luck. The next child might not be so lucky.

P.s. at least several of the parents sharing stories in this thread were separated from their child by more than one row. Although even one row isn’t acceptable for normal parents.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics