And scared kids don't kick the back of chairs for 5 hours...

33girl, that video of the cartoon was hilarious - that was one of our methods of getting the kids to stop crying - when they'd start, we'd start in unison, then they'd stop- worked like a charm. I think they thought we were nuts!

We were lucky that our kids were troupers on planes, but one time, my youngest got violently ill on the plane- like The Exorcist green pea soup sick. He cried and cried and puked and puked, it ranks up there as one of the worst experiences of my life! I felt terrible for him, for the passengers around us, and for myself - WHAAH, I wanted to cry, but I did everything I could to help the situation, and luckily, the folks nearby felt so sorry for us that they were nice about it.

Ever since then, I've had alot more patience for families travelling with kids.

I laugh about the "Hold me daddy, hold me!" incident now. He had such a cute voice then.. in 3 year old speak it was more like "Hole me Doddy, Hole me!" such a cutie pie.

My worst flight? Being on a small commuter plane (20 rows, 2 seats down one side, 1 seat down the other) from NJ to Montreal and a loud, misbehaving 2-yr old in the back of the plane. How bad was this kid? The flight attendant asked the parents over the loud speaker to control their kid. A sigh a relief was had by all....

I've been on larger planes with bad kids, but being on a smaller one is seems far worse!:mad:

That's because many parents don't discipline like they should anymore. They are too busy befriending their children, making deals, and negotiating like their children pay rent or something. All my mom had to do was give me "the look" and the "tight lip" and I calmed my butt right on down.

Please! Let's bring back "real" parenting. That's all I have to say. And we wonder why many of our children are out of control?

One child (about 4) was sitting behind me in a restaurant and turned around in his seat on his knees (mistake #1 - the child should've been told immediately to turn his little butt around and sit down) and proceeded to pull at my hair. I ofcourse turned around and told him..."no, no honey...leave my hair alone" in a nice, gentle voice of course. Well how about the mother saw him and did absolutely nothing? I gave her a chance to correct him and then I turned around (by this time I was pissed)...I said "you don't see him pulling my hair?" All I can say is that it almost turned into a different situation.:eek: