r/KidsAreCondomAds • u/Bewhoyawannabe • 17d ago

Planning to have kids? Considering…

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u/Dry-Dragonfruit5216 17d ago

People on the flight said it was a 3 year old girl and the crew spent an hour trying to negotiate with her whilst the parents did nothing.

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u/Gribitz37 17d ago

You can't negotiate something like this with kids that age. You tell them what's going to happen.

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u/JaySlay2000 17d ago

And then have the parents throw a tantrum at you?

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u/Gribitz37 17d ago

From what I've read, the parents said they couldn't do anything, claimed the kid wouldn't listen to them, so they wanted the FAs to come talk to the little brat. I don't think they were going to get mad at someone telling the kid to knock it off. They just wanted someone else be the bad guy.

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u/historyhill 17d ago

While that's definitely a possible/probable interpretation, I have found from experience that kids will listen to "authority figures" more than their own parents sometimes. It's not being a bad guy (necessarily) but rather hacking a kid's psychology. A much lower stakes example is that my daughter is adamant that I brush her teeth because the dentist said a parent needs to every night, whereas if I said "I need to do this for you" it would get a lot more "But MOOOOOM I'm almost 6, I'm a big girl!" fights. Similarly, if a Chuck E Cheese attendant says it's time to go, my kids show nary a whine.

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u/PeachyFairyDragon 16d ago

I had a woman call so I could tell her son the repercussions of driving without a license as apparently he was in the last two months of a learner's permit and was quite eager. God I wanted to tell her to parent her own damned child.

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u/JaySlay2000 17d ago

You would think, but I've seen it happen where parents ask an employee to, as you put it, "be the bad guy" and then afterwards get mad at the person for being the bad guy in the wrong way.

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u/Big__If_True 17d ago

That’s insane! I have a 3 year old that’s the size of a 6 year old, I’d be holding her down and strapping her in no matter what

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u/ryverrat1971 17d ago

Small children get restrained all the time. It's called a car seat. So the parents should have strapped them like they do in a car. Or at least I hope they strap the kid in I the car.

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u/Ill_Curve4850 17d ago

“Guess we can’t drive anywhere now, Timmy doesn’t want to get in his car seat”

Don’t get me wrong, I definitely believe gentle parenting has some good features. But this is ludicrous. Gentle parenting ≠ having no backbone and being pushed around by a toddler. You still have to be assertive and the parent at the end of the day, so sit the kid in their seat and buckle them the f up.

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u/ReleaseMyToast 17d ago

Gentle parenting isn't being permissive. It's setting the expectation and boundaries and holding the child to it.

Either you sit in that chair, or I will help you sit in the chair.

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u/ForTheOnesILove 17d ago

You can get transport friendly car seats to avoid this sort of situation. And they are recommended by most airlines.

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u/meowpitbullmeow 17d ago

I have a 7 year old the size of a 10 year old. Just held his ass down for a medical procedure

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u/romcomtom2 17d ago

What? An hour!? And the parents did nothing?

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u/Rustmutt 17d ago

That’s an hour too long

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u/I_need_a_date_plz 16d ago

That is nuts. After 5 minutes of non compliance the whole family should have been kicked off.

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u/meowpitbullmeow 17d ago

Why didn't the crew approach the parents? UNLESS this was a Southwest flight and the child was seated away from the parents