Mom & Toddler Booted Off Plane

[jackie]

There are always three sides to every story. The moms version, the steward's version, and the truth.

If what the article says is the truth, the mother deserves compensation, and the flight attendant should be fired. But how often is the media 100% truthful and unbiased?

[moosmom]

For the people annoyed:

Just throw on your iPod or favorite listeninmg device and crank it up!!! What's the problem?

For the Flight Attendant:

You need another profession, honey. You ARE Continental Express Airlines. It's all about Customer Service.

I would GLADLY welcome a kid who isn't screaming over candy, throwing a tantrum in the middle of the store, or flipping the over a cart with your 10 week old sister in the safety seat.

I have one technique that works like a charm. It's called the "HAIRY EYEBALL" and shuts 'em right up.

[BC_MoM]

I sure hope she DOES take legal action. Sounds like someone's got her knickers in a knot.

[CathyBogart]

I'd like to know what really happened...

[Cataholic]

If the flight was already delayed 11 hours, and the child was, indeed, 2 years old, I cannot imagine what the poor PARENT was going through, let alone the child.

Well behaved, or not, if a grown adult lost her patience- as it seems the stewardess did, why would a 2 year old be any different?

Trust me, Richard, I, and probably most people, just can't handle every situation thrown at us as a parent with the finesse your dear mother did.

[finn's mom]

I definitely can see how that would be annoying, but not enough to kick them off the plane. Of course, there are only a handful of people who know the complete story. IF what is in the article posted is the complete truth, I do believe the flight attendant was completely out of line.

Even if there is something going on with a child that is highly annoying or disruptive, the things the attendant was quoted as saying are ridiculous and completely inappropriate. There are many other, more acceptable, ways to ask someone to do something about a disruptive child. Again, IF those things did come out of the attendant's mouth, she needs to revisit the term TACT.

As for people who think their child's crap doesn't stink or that they can do no wrong (and, Richard, I work in grocery, I see that ALL THE TIME, it is very sad to think about the kinds of adults those children will turn out to be), I don't feel that it applies in this particular situation. The mother may have been more understanding about her child's annoying behavior's effect on the pleasantness of the flight if the attendant had approached her differently. Telling anyone to shut up or to shut their child up is not a peaceful approach to any situation. That phrase is almost always used in frustration and rarely leads to any good compromise or solution.

Ok, I'm shutting up, now.

[Sirrahsim]

I flew Continental Express... they have these little clear backpacks with activities and toys for kids. Some of the toys aren't appropriate for a two year old but many of them are. Maybe she didn't feel like actually trying to rectify the situation ??? That flight attendant should be fired for sure. *11* hours?? in an airport?? Even the best behaved child in the world would be bouncing off the walls. The fact that he was saying "bye bye plane" and not screaming his head off is a miracle on its own.

OH... maybe it is the leftover pregnancy hormones but this really gets me. I hope that sad excuse for a flight attendant was fired

[RICHARD]

I saw a clip of the kid last night on the Red Eye 'news' program.
There were two separate scenes.

He was running around in circles by a play set outdoors and the indoors shot showed the same thing....

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The comedian that was a guest on R.E. said the same thing that I did about parents thinking their kids aren't misbehaving.

He went a little farther. He mentioned the parent that scolds the kid a few times, then looks at the people around them, smiles and shrugs the "Kids will be kids" shrug and lets the behavior goes on.

Again, my mom had six kids, some of us were little AH's, But she never 'lost' control of us in public- that was not acceptable. We sat, we waited and we were not obnoxious.

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"Well the kid is only two!" Yeppers, but at that time the kid should already be socialized and knows how to behave in public.

judging by the video, the parental mindset is to "let him tire himself out and he'll sleep for the rest of the trip".

Sure, let him rock and roll until someone, with less patience than the F.A. punches you or steps on your kid.


(buzzer) WRONG! Take the bus next time. that was the people can actually get to where they are going without any more delay.

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Moosmom.

LOLOLOL, I don't have an ipod, why?

The second confirmed case of lightning hitting an ipod wearing person was in the news yesterday....

Now if you had an ipod on a plane and lightning hit it?

Better yet, put the ipod on the kid and pray?

[finn's mom]

Again, my mom had six kids, some of us were little AH's, But she never 'lost' control of us in public- that was not acceptable. We sat, we waited and we were not obnoxious.

At work, I've noticed that when there's more than one child, the children individually and collectively, seem better behaved. (Not always, but often.) Perhaps it comes with practice? Was your mother super mom from baby number one? I commend your mother, and anyone for that matter, for being able to superbly handle six children, or even one child. I am curious, though, if she was always that able, or if the old adage "practice makes perfect" fits in her situation.

[moosmom]

I can't even BEGIN to imagine 11 hours on a plane with a 2 year old!!

Kill me now!!!