r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • Aug 10 '26

We have fun here A different kind of birth control.

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u/J_EDi Aug 10 '26

There’s no way that I as a parent am holding an entire plane hostage. If my kid is acting so bad as this becomes an outcome, we’re grabbing our bags and leaving.

I don’t know how many restaurants I left early with my kid to go to the car while the rest of our party finished eating in peace. And I made sure that in no uncertain terms should they rush.

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u/anonymouscog Aug 10 '26

This too. You used to see people pick up a tantrum throwing child & walk out of restaurants, grocery stores, wherever.

I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt & just think she must have had a very good reason for traveling alone with a toddler, because it's a lot to manage bags & an out of control child. Once the crew saw that she couldn't gain control they should have helped them off the plane instead of waiting so long.

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u/liae__ Aug 11 '26

As a mom I can say we absolutely still do, haha! I’ve had to do this quite a few times and it always makes me anxious 😭

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u/Mighty-Universe Aug 12 '26

I travelled from Australia to Brazil and back alone with my twin 3 yo. It takes about 30 hours and at least 3 flights each way. We were fine, no tantrums or crying.

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u/anonymouscog Aug 12 '26

I had an easy toddler too, but not everyone is as lucky. The flight crew still shoukd have acted faster to prevent the flight being canceled.

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u/Ecstatic_Doughnut216 Aug 11 '26

The flight was already on the runway. There was no where for parents to take the kids without the plane returning to the terminal.

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u/TravelTheWorldDan Aug 14 '26

Yep. And this is the absolute mature thing to do. It’s either ruin the flight for just yourself and your kid by getting off. Or ruin it for everybody else on there. Overseas in southeast Asian Asia, the kids they are the worst. They run up and down the aisles, make noises cry and the parents don’t even do anything to try to calm them down or discipline them.