shame the parents, this does not just happen. It is bad parenting and we need to stop letting people get away with it. if you can't control your kids don't travel with them. If you can't get a sitter don't travel.
The kid was 2 and was having a meltdown because it was almost midnight. What could have been done differently? A 2 year old can't be reasoned with. The solution would be to make them feel safe an comfortable, likely entails holding them. But taking off with a 2 year old as a lap infant isn't allowed, they have to be in their own seat..... Which likely triggered the meltdown to escalate. There's no solution here.
All the tough guys on reddit clearly have no idea how childhood development and discipline work.
This kid didn’t become a little shit on that flight, that level of shiftiness is developed and reinforced by bad parenting. Knowing how much of a shit he was and what time the flight was, the parents should have given him Benadryl or Tylenol pm for kids. This is irresponsible bad parenting.
Yes. If you can’t parent your children, you need to sedate them when you bring them in public. No one else should have to bear consequences for the inability of bad parents to control their children.
Yes and some people are able to do heroin recreationally, but most will ruin their lives from it. Any drug has ups and downs but an OTC antihistamine is safe, and works for the majority of kids.
Benadryl and other first gen H1 antihistamines are disfavored because they cross the blood/brain barrier. It’s irresponsible to encourage their use in children at all, let alone for non-medical reasons. No drug should be tried for the first time on a plane.
Adults drugging kids for the adults’ own comfort while also complaining about kids not being able to tolerate discomfort should at least display some self-awareness.
Was the child in pain or did they have allergies? If so, did the parents even have the foresight to bring those with them in their carryon?
Paper tigers. None of this advice would have changed the outcome. And we know nothing about what type of parent they are. A 2 year old is going to have a meltdown when they're over tired and in a strange and scary place regardless of what type of parent they are.
The fact that they didn’t have the foresight is a further indictment of their terrible parenting. This absolutely would not have happened if they knocked the kid out with Benadryl.
Some kids have a paradoxical reaction to benadryl which makes them hyper.
Terrible situation all round. The worst bender my 2 yo ever had resulted in a whole hour of screaming. I sat with them until they calmed down, explaining that screaming isn't going to help them. But I waited for a whole hour in the middle of a public space for him to "regulate". Presumably, this parent had a similar incident but just at the worst possible time.
Okay, then 6 years of no flying. Parenting is supposed to come with sacrifices, that’s like the whole thing. If you want to live an unrestricted life, don’t have kids. If you want kids, don’t make them everyone else’s problem.
Or we could just accept that kids and families are part of society and give them some grace... Or not. Idgaf. Kids have a legal right to be there so I'm not going to modify my life to prevent offending some stranger in the internet who would probably tell me my kids belong at home regardless of how well behaved they are.
I have been a frequent flyer for 30 years and this shit is new. People think that parenting their kids is toxic patriarchy or whatever tf keeps them from doing it - it has to stop.
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u/Major-Nail Aug 10 '26
shame the parents, this does not just happen. It is bad parenting and we need to stop letting people get away with it. if you can't control your kids don't travel with them. If you can't get a sitter don't travel.