Crying babies on a plane are the equivalent of torture.

[Ns1]

Please leave your shitling at home. Thanks.

 

[SheHateMe]

This will go well.

 

[rbV5]

Never hear them in First Class!

 

[lxskllr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDIaDS9HhMw

 

[Ns1]

Never hear them in First Class!

You hear them loud and clear when they are in the first row of economy.

Coworker got stuck with 3 crying kids in first on a 15 hour intl flight. Baller family I guess.

 

[Dulanic]

Please leave your shitling at home. Thanks.

Or have a well behaved child. My wife took our son to see her family. He didn't even whine the whole trip and it had a layover too. He was 6 months old at the time.

 

[Anubis]

Never hear them in First Class!

oh yes you do
you also hear little yippy dogs that rich bitches carry on the plane

ive seen both. actually last time i flew cross the country a fam of 7 occupied most of 1st class. no kid over 10, and 2 under the age of 3

 

[K1052]

First class offers limited protection. The last flight I was on had 4 small children and an infant in First. I find vodka + noise canceling headphones to be pretty helpful.

 

[rbV5]

oh yes you do
you also hear little yippy dogs that rich bitches carry on the plane

ive seen both. actually last time i flew cross the country a fam of 7 occupied most of 1st class. no kid over 10, and 2 under the age of 3

Yea, I hate those yippy little dogs in a purse.

 

[Baked]

Children under the age of 14 should be restricted to the cargo bay of a plane.

 

[Mixolydian]

I avoid flying possible at all costs. But if I absolutely had to, it would be First Class.

 

[mundane]

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[SheHateMe]

Some kids just get scared on the plane. There is nothing you can do but try to soothe them.

 

[madoka]

Or have a well behaved child. My wife took our son to see her family. He didn't even whine the whole trip and it had a layover too. He was 6 months old at the time.

I've come to accept that kids can have different personalities and so some kids are harder to train than others. My first kid only cried once his first six months of life and that one time was when he was born and the doctor slapped his butt. As he grew into a toddler, I had five different pediatricians independently comment that he was the best behaved kid his age they'd seen. However, my second kid will cry and complain at the drop of a hat. The most trivial thing could set her to crying.

 

[Jumpem]

The parents are likely doing all they can to quiet the kid, and they aren't having a good time either. Deal with it.

 

[KeithP]

If only there were an inexpensive product that you could put in your ears to block sound. Might be a good kickstarter project.

-KeithP

 

[JTsyo]

Some kids just get scared on the plane. There is nothing you can do but try to soothe them.

It's also that the change in pressure effects them more than adults. Maybe the pain is the same but they know less on how to handle it. Also when you break kids of their routines, they don't do well. It has nothing to do with behavior.

 

[Ns1]

Some kids just get scared on the plane. There is nothing you can do but try to soothe them.

They should pay the $25 fee and check them in.

 

[Argo]

The parents are likely doing all they can to quiet the kid, and they aren't having a good time either. Deal with it.

This. I used to feel like the op, until I had a baby. Now I think op is an ass. Funny how your world views change...

 

[440sixpack]

Please leave your shitling at home. Thanks.

Let's remember - we were all "shitlings" at some point in the past. I guarantee we all annoyed someone at some time in our childhood with our behavior, involuntary or not.

That said, responses like "put them in the cargo hold" indicate to me this is not a serious thread, so never mind.

 

[BoomerD]

Some kids just get scared on the plane. There is nothing you can do but try to soothe them.

You COULD always take off a sock and shove it into the screaming brat's mouth...That usually works wonders.

Children should be treated like checked baggage...and stuffed into the cargo hold.

 

[Jeff7]

Or have a well behaved child. My wife took our son to see her family. He didn't even whine the whole trip and it had a layover too. He was 6 months old at the time.

This.

Or the parents who spend the entire trip going "shhhHHHH" to their noisy kid, who eventually will simply ignore the sound entirely. The kid has learned well: Failure to follow commands results in no consequences whatsoever, likely from a parent who won't instill discipline, for fear of scarring the kids fragile wittle ego.

My annoyance at the child's noise is greatly overshadowed by feelings of (sympathy? embarrassment?) for the parents.

I will admit to some of this, for parents who look like they're at least acknowledging the disruption, and trying to quiet the infant properly. One mother I saw would yawn at her baby when the pressure change really kicked in. The baby started to yawn as well, and he quieted down pretty soon after that.
Then there are the parents who will just go on business as usual, while their toddler-age or elementary-school-age offspring continues to make loud noise whenever possible.

 

[tommo123]

when i was a kid i didn't cry on planes but back then the air was better in a plane since people were allowed to smoke

 

[BUTCH1]

I avoid flying possible at all costs. But if I absolutely had to, it would be First Class.

Until you saw the price difference, you would then come to your senses and become a drone like the rest of us..

 

[Mixolydian]

Until you saw the price difference, you would then come to your senses and become a drone like the rest of us..

No, I came to my senses and don't fly at all.