• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If they don’t have this instituted already, if I were a parent, I’d say “Yeah, ok. You can keep me not seated with my kid. But what are you going ho do when they start crying, and kicking and punching because they’re in an unfirmiliar environment, surrounded by strangers, with no firmiliar faces? How are YOU going to calm my kids down? Because you’re saying right now that you’re taking away MY ability to do so, so then it just becomes YOUR legal responsibility who he hits, or kicks, or bites, because he’s scared. Because what are YOU going to do? Smack a kid? You think you could calm him down without violence? The whole reason he’s scared is because planes are scary, and strangers are scary. You think you, a stranger, will in any way help the situation? Oh, you just found seats together for us? Yeah. I thought so.”

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      5 months ago

      I’ve flown with a 2 and 3 year old on budget airlines. And just not booked seats because. They legally can’t separate toddlers from parents. Every time they just seat us in the back all 4 together.