Did you see on the news the family removed from a flight because of the tantrum the daughter was having....?

Question

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16773655/

What do you think about this?

Answer 1

Her mom said they didn't give her and her husband a chance to console their daughter..which is probably why she was throwing the tantrum in the first place. She probably throws tantrums at home, and the reaction she gets from her parents is a hug and a "Calm down". She probably also gets what she wants when she throws tantrums.

I agree with the airline's decision. If you can't control your kid that's your problem--not the problem of the rest of the passengers on board.

Answer 2

Genius on the part of the airline! Airlines never let an adult they deem to be unruly (or displaying inappropriate or dangerous behavior - such as extreme intoxication) board a flight, so why should they let a child be out of control? I know that children are children and that they sometimes have meltdowns - I work for pediatricians, so I've seen the best and worst - but some should be kept in cages, and this child refusing to sit in her seat and be seatbelted was beyond a meltdown and was a tantrum to try to get her own way. It sounds to me like the child runs the household and the parents cater to her - which I've seen a lot of! If the parents can't control a three year old - what are they doing to do when she's sixteen? Children need to know what is appropriate behavior in circumstances, and apparently these people don't know how to teach that. I was NEVER allowed to run amok the way some kids do these days. If I was being inappropriate, I was given ten seconds to settle down, and if I couldn't, I was removed from the situation immediately. Why should 112 people be exposed to a demon child? Whose to say that if they had gotten her calmed down to take off that she wouldn't go running up and down the aisle or climb on other people? THAT would be a big danger and a HUGE annoyance to the other passengers!

Answer 3

I think the airline was 100% in the right here. The flight had already been delayed, there was a plane full of people sitting in their seats with seat belts buckled, waiting on this one family to get their act together. The parents are trying to blame someone else for their bad parenting. I highly doubt this was her first tantrum and if the only way they can get her to calm down is a hug then they have some serious issues. There were refunded all 3 tickets, and given 3 additional business class tickets to anywhere in the continental U.S. What more do they want? They need to stop pointing the finger and take responsibility for their child's actions as a result of their poor parenting skills.

Answer 4

OMG, that child runs that home. Props the the airline, I only wish they wouldn't have reimbursed them. My daughters at that age would NEVER pulled that crap, they may have tried but the "evil eye" from both mom and dad would have put her in her place (knowing if she didn't stop, she would be getting a good spanking), What's this world coming to. Climbing over the seats???? what the hell is that, and they wanted to hold her? NO WAY. Please god, help spanking make a comeback.

If any of my daughters got us kicked off the plane. They can count on a nice long trip to the bathroom.

Answer 5

I think that the airlines did the right thing. They remove or refuse boarding to adults that are out of control..why shouldn't a child that cannot be controlled be allowed. People need to teach their children how to behave in public. What if that child had been taught how to misbehave as a smoke screen for something worse. The airline staff deserve a pat on teh back.

Answer 6

The airline was in the right.

I'm not taking my kids on an airplane until they are 16. Doesn't make sense to try to put a toddler on an airplane. I didn't see it, but I heard in interviews that the parents said the child had recently had an earache and they thought the pressurization might have impacted the kid's ear on the flight there. Knowing that the kid had ear problems, why would you put the kid on an airplane in the first place?

Drive...don't fly.

Answer 7

This question has already been asked. I think they are justified in what they did. How can one family expect a plane full of people to just sit around and wait until the child was calmed down? It's not right. The parents are at fault here and they are acting like victims. They SHOULD have prepared that child for the flight, told her what was going to happen ect.

My son got plane tickets for his fourth birthday. We got on the plane he sat in his car seat and he was no trouble at all. I told him how being on a plane feels and I brought along gum for his ears and a few toys to play with. He was happy the whole flight.

Answer 8

She was removed because "she was climbing under the seat and hitting the parents and wouldn't get in her seat" during boarding, Graham-Weaver said.

Then i agree with the airline. I can understand if the girl was afraid, or tired, but the parent's should have just put their foot down, sat her in her seat, buckled her in and given her something to play with or eat.

I'm dreading having to fly with my 2y/o and near 1y/o for those reasons. Even though my girls are very well behaved, they've never flown so i can understand it will be scary for them, they'll get tired and won't be able to lay down proporly. Consoling her on the plane is a bit to late. Making it fun for her before they boarded may have helped, getting her excited about going home may have helped i don't know. Kids will be kids and sometimes they act out, you just have to be stern.......of course it goes back to people moaning about kids behavior, the parent's disciplining and then being branded abusers!!! Damned if you do damned if you don't

Answer 9

i also agree with the airline. the story i read said they were delayed 15 minutes because of the child. the parents did not force her into her seat like they were told to do. you cant hold up the other 112 people who possibly had other flights to catch and may have missed. the child needed to be prepared before the flight and made to sit in her seat

Answer 10

I think the airline did the right thing. The parents were offered another flight and the airfare was given back to them. MAybe the parents should drive next time.