Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Home again
Well, we made it back home tonight after a five-hour flight with two of the world's worst-behaved children two rows back. I think there must've been three cumulative hours of shreiking, back-talking, shouting and crying. One was a toddler and the other was perhaps four years old. The mom did nothing except a soft "Ssshhhh..." and the dad just yelled back at the kids. It was heinous. I kept hoping the Supernanny was somewhere on the plane and would come to everyone's rescue. But, alas, no such luck. I wish I were in control of the organization that regulated human reproduction. There would be some serious limits.
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Perhaps, but parents should be in control of children. I'm not suggesting that "good" parents will have perfectly-behaved children; but they should at least teach them to respect others and how to behave it everyday situations. That teaching is by example, of course. Parents who yell and swear and manipulate will have children who follow that example. Plan appropriate activities for long trips to entertain them, for everyone's sake. I certainly wouldn't expect and infant or a toddler to sit quietly for five hours, though several around us did just that. But the 4-year-old was like one of those horrible kids from Supernanny or Nanny 911. Smart-mouthing, shrieking and screaming (not associated with crying; just because he was mad about something), and just generally ill-mannered. The parents were the obvious role-models for the bad behavior; mom was too lenient and passive, probably trying to compensate for dad's swearing, shouting and violence. NOT normal kid restlessness by any means. I was just thankful that we weren't the ones directly in front of them while they were kicking the seats and banging the tray tables up and down.
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