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Originally Posted by OTW
I was very nervous when we took the 4 year old to Michigan last summer. I read everything I could about how to prevent kid meltdowns on a flight, especially since we were flying HNL-LAX, LAX-ATL, and ATL-DTW. He's very talkative, so whenever we boarded a flight, we'd get dirty looks from people who I could tell were silently praying that they weren't sitting near us.
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This reminds me of when the nephew took his first flight (to my college graduation). My sister said that L was sooo excited about flying, and then he walked out to the tarmac. My family lives in a small town with a small airport where you have to walk out from the airport to the plane, so it was really loud. He was screaming BLOODY MURDER. "No! I'm not getting in that thing! You can't make me! I'll die in that airpwane!" HE WAS 3. My sister had to pick him up, throw him over her shoulder, and haul him into the plane.
As soon as L got into the plane, he sat down and went to sleep. Now he loves to fly. So, if a kid is chatty/screamy when he's about to board, there's a good chance that he will be quiet in the plane.