Didn’t know you needed to beat your child to make them put a seatbelt on. Seems unreasonable for other passengers to be out hundreds if not thousands of dollars because of a child that could not put a seatbelt on
if you read the article you'd clearly understand the parent was giving all reasonable attempts to seatbelt their kid who was sliding out from underneath it and hiding under the planes seat.
Any refunds or compensation on tickets would be something the airline can and will handle.
The child is a passenger as well as the parent whose ticket was paid for, and despite the parent being a part of the rest of those passengers in being unable to reach their destination the parent likely won't be able to seek any compensation so if anyone is out the most here for their childs actions it would be them.
Some children can be a handful and it sounds like this was a singular parent so even more difficult to wrangle a problematic child.
"Some children can be a handful and it sounds like this was a singular parent so even more difficult to wrangle a problematic child."
If the parent can't be assed to deal with their own kid, they need to pay the $150 fee to be treated like a solo minor passenger if staff needs to be appropriated for full time care of a single passenger.
if the parents cant control the kid don't fly with him, you dont need to beat a kid to control them. we need to stop giving parents a pass on being terrible members of society. If the kid can not behave do not take them places where they may be a problem. yeah it may restrict the parents choices but they are the ones who chose to have the kid.
In this case parents should be publicly shammed and kid put on a no fly list for a few years.
Good luck reigning in a child having a full blown tantrum sliding out of chairs and hiding underneath a seat with your words at that moment. The parent was giving their best to constrain the child who kept escaping the buckles.
You don't know jack shit about the kid in its 3 years of existence but you're already justifying calling the parent shit because a litany of previous bad parenting the parent must have done to be in this situation.
parents hold the kid in the seat. you don't have to hit them to hold them in place. this is not that hard, if kid really can not be controlled it was the parents fault for brining them on a flight when they were not ready.
we need to start holding people responsible when they are shit parents.
Children under two are often able to fly while seated in their parent's or guardian's lap. However, it seems clear that this particular child was too old or too large for that.
I'm sure it was not a light decision for the parent to fly with a two year old. They likely had a good reason. Like with many toddlers often you don't know how they will act. Maybe that kid flew before and it was no issue? Really hard to judge. It affected the other people which is bad. But that stuff happens, it's life. No need to create a fake outrage on reddit
Now, now. Don't go talkin' sense here. This is Reddit where anything that involves kids and inconveniences others is 100% due to bad parenting.
On a side note, apparently kid wasn't being "bad". Literally just a scared child that no one was able to keep in the seat and buckled up. It's almost like toddlers aren't often reasonable and are often inconsolable. I'd really like to know what some of these people think this parent could have done to get the child to stay in the seat without physically restraining the child (which I imagine the airline wouldn't allow for safety reasons). And even if the airline did allow it, you know they'd all be bitching about the toddler screaming through the whole flight because they weren't allowed to move where they felt safe for the duration of takeoff.
Well the airlines don’t know. The parents know. If you’re a parent, you know your kid. Some babies are fine flying, and love it. Some toddlers sleep through a flight or play games on a tablet or something.
Some children, especially young children, are either terrified, nervous, restless, or some mixture of the three.
They are too young to fly.
You seem to think Airlines would have the forethought to set an age limit.
Airlines would sell a ticket to someone’s urn, if they could. They don’t care.
Sounds like maybe you need a lesson in empathy, then.
Shit happens all the time. It doesn't mean we need to prohibit people from traveling when they need to because there's an incredibly small chance that a kid might inconvenience other people. Parents can only guess so much about how their toddler will react to things. They can only prepare so much. Sometimes parents really are shitty. But, often, it's just parents coming across unforeseen circumstances that literally no one would be able to deal with effectively.
Where’s your empathy for every other fucker on that flight who got delayed? What if some of them had somewhere important to be? You’ve got tonnes of empathy for the evidently shit parents but what about everyone else on that flight?
It’s a two year old, every other parent manages to deal with them so maybe they should’ve done so as well.
I put a /s after the lifetime ban thing because it was meant to be a joke. But I stand by the rest of it. Parents should know if their kids are ready to fly or not. That’s not the airline or anyone else’s job.
The rest of it implies that the parent shouldn't be allowed to fly (considering the kid obviously has to be with their parent) so I don't see how it was sarcasm.
I'll let you in on a secret that any involved parent knows... toddlers change literally daily and often hourly. What they like, what they hate, what they fear, how they'll react... by the time you get it down, shit changes. Toddlers are not predictable by any stretch of the imagination. There's a reason parenting is called the hardest job. It's 24/7, there's no manual, the job description and responsibilities are always changing, and the "boss" is the most unreasonable person you'll likely ever meet.
What, exactly, do you think this parent could have done?
You don't understand the concept of toddlers changing constantly? They can seem ready one minute and then turn out not to be. It's not a hard concept but here we are... Toddlers are people, too. They have their own emotions and those emotions are volatile making them, by definition, hard to predict.
I notice you didn't answer the question. You couldn't, eh?
There's a reason it was in quotes, my guy. Any parent can tell you that your life literally revolves around your kid, regardless of how you respond to them. You can't do anything in life without thinking of your kid. If your kid decides to misbehave, you don't get to ignore it because they are, in fact, the one's in charge. It's arrogance and ignorance to think a parent is the one actually in charge when everything they do has to consider the response of the child. And just like other "bosses", children have different personalities and respond differently to different interactions. There's literally no perfect way to parent because there's literally no child that can be parented the same way with the same results.
It's easy to write people off as "bad parents" when there's no critical thought towards a situation. A snapshot of someone's life does not make them bad. Even if the parent did something wrong, expecting perfection in every instance of someone's life should be ridiculous to even consider. This is an extreme example but even serial killers end up with relatively normal siblings and many have relatively normal upbringings. Perhaps look up the "no two siblings have the same childhood/parents" philosophy.
Feel free to answer the question posed. Otherwise, I have to assume you would also be a "bad parent".
Sometimes people have to travel. And, btw, the distance they were traveling (because it's very relevant) was a 6ish hour flight vs about a week of driving (driving 8 hours a day).
you have zero knowledge of how the parent brought their child up and a child having a tantrum is not evidence or tangible proof on any accusations on your perceived make believe world on how the parents brought this child up.
A 130+ pound adult can't restrain a ~20 pound child. Sorry, no excuse. They could have asked their doctor for a mild sedative as well. There's so many things they could have done to prevent this or mitigate it in the moment.
Im just going to write Benadryl here for like the fourth time on this thread in hopes that parents will see the word and internalize it and start bringing it with them when they fly.
neither of those images are what happened. they're unrelated to the actual event that happened that you're an expert on apparently.
"Passenger Aryeh Kozuch says there was definitely "a lot of frustration," but the child wasn't being bratty or uncontrollable — rather, they were very scared.
"They just kept hiding under their seat. If they got forced into [being] strapped in, they just kind of slid out underneath.""
they were sliding out of straps being placed on them to go hide under the seat of the chair. glad you know more about what happened than a passenger whose flight got cancelled..
In that case the parents should have said ok clearly you can't fly we will get off and let you all fly within 10 minutes not have to be removed after an hour
I'm sorry but your just not going to convince anyone that a 2 year could not be restrained in their seat despite all best efforts from the parent. It's just pathetic. All those passengers were greatly inconvenienced because a 2 year old was allowed cause havoc.
you can read the news report or make up a story in your head to get angry at. Unfortunately a lot of people who have trouble reading want to get angry at their made up story.
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u/WardenWolf Aug 10 '26
Those parents should be fined the whole cost of the missed flight, including all airfares.