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This is on you, OP. I've gone on countless flights with my kids, and the situation you want to avoid is asking people yourself on the plane. So here's what you should have done -

1. You should have insisted to get seat assignments upon check-in.
2. If unsuccessful, you should have insisted at the gate, and gone back to ask repeatedly. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
3. If unsuccessful, tell the flight attendant that your child cannot sit by herself (don't ask, tell), and say that you will be asking other passengers to switch. And proceed to do so. Only one of you needs to be seated with your child.

No passenger has ever refused to switch with me in the past, when it's been a question of being seated next to my young child. Stick with the least desirable seat that you've been assigned and ask the person next to it to move to the more desirable one.
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This.  I usually don't like when people post, "you should have..." posts, but I agree with the above because it's useful for you in the future.  When at an airport, you always have to be on the situation and assertive.

I'll add one thing:  did you look online the day before to confirm the flight?  Generally they email out changes in flights as soon as it's changed.[/quote]

They tried to do this with us, from Florida to Denver, so a pretty long flight. Once it's in their system, they don't let you change until it's the day of the flight. I called the airline three times in advance of our trip when I saw what they had done, and each time they told me they couldn't do anything until I got to the airport. So when I got to Denver, I said you need to fix this. They said it has to be the day of the flight. So the day of the flight, I said at check in they need to fix it. They said they had to do it at the gate. When I got to the gate, no one was there yet so I waited, first in line and said flat out I will not board this plane until it's fixed. She took my boarding passes and said she'd call us when they found something. I stood there, refusing to move. She said I could sit. I said no thanks I'll just wait right here. You really have to push them on these things. No way was I going to board with my kid a few rows up, and she's 8. Best advice I had ever received was DO NOT BOARD the plane and hope it gets fixed. [/quote]

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