People Are “Sick” Of Parents Not Controlling Their Kids After One Brings Light-Up Hat To Red-Eye
Sometimes the one thing you really need is a little bit of rest. Just a teensy bit. A wink, really. But it seems that whatever force is governing this particular reality just isn’t in the business of giving you a break.
Driving home? Traffic everywhere. Trying to shop before coming back? More people than you’ve ever seen in a store. Nodding off in a bus? Pothole larger than your will to live. Red-eye flight? You won’t believe this – a kid with a glowing, strobing hat, and you didn’t even get your rave glow sticks…
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Sometimes it takes just one single person to transform one hours-long experience into a glimpse of hell
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The internet was briefly caught in a storm of rage after witnessing a vid of a kid with a strobing hat on a night flight
So, imagine, you’re taking a red-eye flight – if you’ve never flown, that’s an overnight flight which lands in the morning – and you’d really like to get some sleep. I’ve never flown on a plane before, so I’m imagining it right with you.
Maybe you’re not naïve anymore and know the thing you’ll be getting won’t be sleep, per se. After all, you’re sitting up, not enough leg room, people too close – nothing that would make a good rest.
On the other hand, the dim lights, the soft murmuring of people and you begin drifting… Waking up hours later, all warm in the best way conceivable and significantly more drooling than befits a person of your stature.
Respectable droolage for a Saint Bernard, though.
Image credits: Josue Isai Ramos Figueroa (not the actual photo)
It was one of those hats with pop-up bunny ears, complete with an “annoying multicolor strobe light” feature
Unfortunately for the passengers on the flight we’re talking about today, there was no sleep in sight. Emphasis on sight. That’s right, not even a little droolage for them, not this time.
For you see, in this video, shared by the illustrious page sarcasm_only on Instagram, you can see our main character, a little kid, with some ungodly abomination on their head.
It seems to be one of those hats with the little fuzzy straps that you can pull on to make the bunny ears perk up. You probably saw quite a lot of them a couple of years ago in memes of parents playing around with them.
But I’ve never once seen a hat of that type with that annoying amount of color-changing strobe lights, not even at a rave. And I’ve been to those, so I don’t need to imagine anything this time. You still can, though!
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It’s unsure if the child was seated next to their laissez-faire parents or if they were just left to their own devices
While the people in the far back of the plane may not be affected and only wondering what that multicolor blip is, people who just want to get some sleep or, even worse, folks who suffer from photosensitive seizures, are probably downright enraged.
Yeah, that’s right, if someone had been or perhaps even was sensitive to flashing lights, they could go into what’s called a “generalized tonic-clonic seizure” also known as a convulsive seizure.
These should last no longer than 5 minutes, but can have some pretty scary symptoms: loss of consciousness, muscle contractions, involuntary crying out, biting down on tongue and cheeks, and losing control of one’s bladder…
Yeah, “funny glowing rabbit hat” isn’t as funny anymore, is it?
Image credits: Aleksei Zaitcev (not the actual photo)
While the kid may be a little cute and they do look happy with their strobe hat, it’s easy to be upset at them for acting this way. Truth be told, you should be mad at the parents, rather than the kid.
I’m not sure if that’s the parent, looking at the camera with a weird rictus, but if they are, they should really rethink their life choices. But perhaps they’re one of those parents who believe that their kid is oh so precious, cute, and funny, which means that everyone should give them the totality of their attention. Ugh.
This video went pretty viral, collecting 350k views and over 6.5k comments. Share your own thoughts about the story below! Would you fly on kid-free airlines if you got the chance to?
Many people didn’t bite their tongue with sharp remarks aimed at the kid
Image credits: Rahul Singh (not the actual photo)
Many also wondered what the parents are thinking and considering the ramifications if someone was photosensitive
Image credits: Steven Thompson (not the actual photo)
Some even took the time to write out their thoughts, either in attempt to educate others or roast people saying “just deal with it”
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I was just on a plane with a kid watching videos with no headphones. The parents said he was too young to wear them. Flight attendants did nothing. I won't fly united again.
That bugs me on a 20-minute ride on the bus... I can't imagine an hours-long flight!!! UGH
For f*** sake! I have a 2yr old. His headphones go were he goes. Old enough to watch videos, old enough to wear headphones!!!
Same here! When my daughter was a toddler she got as much iPad time as she wanted on flights (a rare treat) and she knew that if she wanted sound her headphones had to be on
That's awful. I probably would've started watching the most obnoxious, inappropriate comedy I could. & I can't weat earphones either so I guess your kid will learn some new words from Dave Chappelle on this flight!
UNITY!!!!!!!
I worked with infants and toddlers with special needs in Early Start and we were inundated with toddlers showing developmental delays from being being on handheld devices all day. The delays were a result of an attachment disorder, which is a severe mental health condition in toddlers which later becomes personality disorders in adulthood. They are also a great way to introduce addiction to toddlers who will now scream if you dont let them have it. Not only was that parent oblivious to the needs of everyone around them, they were oblivious to their own kid's needs. Parents who emotionally neglect their kids also tend to give them whatever they want, to get them to shut up, so they can go back to selfishly avoiding interacting with their own child. The kid becomes a behavioral mess no one wants to be around, but its the parents fault. This is how personality disorders are passed down from parent to child. Emotionally neglected kids grow up to emotionally neglect their kids.
It looks like a cool hat but not on a plane, not on a train , not on a boat ....
I would not like it here or there, I would not like it anywhere. I do not want a light-up hat, Sam-I-Am.
Only at home sitting at the foot of the parents bed ALL night. Every night.🤨
It's a theme park hat
It is the responsibility of the airline attendants to fix the issue. Where were they? Ridiculous.
We don’t know that the airline attendants didn’t fox the issue shortly afterwards. However, first and foremost the problem is the parents.
Correction there hun, it's the parents at fault here. The attendant can ask the parents to please stow the hat. But really it should have been packed in the first place
Why is it anybody else's responsibility to parent someone else's child? Do you also think that it's the school teacher's job to teach your kids manners? What's ridiculous is people like you who think that it's everybody else's job to fix your failures as a parent. It isn't. Do your job and either raise your kid, or deal with a goblin who has no manners, no respect for you, can't cope in the real world and plays video games in the basement at the age of 40 while you whine about how society failed you both.
Airline attendants aren’t parents. Teachers aren’t parents. Police aren’t parents. Parents are parents and I’m sick of bad parents demanding that other people do the parenting for them. Grow up and raise your child right or get “fixed” like the ignorant dog you are.
It's the responsibility of the parents to tell him he can't wear that thing on a plane, or at the very least keep him from turning the lights on.
Maybe I'm going out on the wrong limb here defending what the OP (Marnie) ~potentially~ meant: but the way I interpreted their wording, "fix the issue," is that Marnie (hopefully!) agrees with all of us that the parents are to blame for the behavior occurring in the first place, but after a fellow flyer behaves inappropriately like this (as anyone who has flown knows isn't a rare occurrence) then the flight attendants should have intervened and addressed the issue on behalf of the safety of their flight and the rest of the passengers. Hopefully they did. Is there any report on whether that happened or not?
I was just on a plane with a kid watching videos with no headphones. The parents said he was too young to wear them. Flight attendants did nothing. I won't fly united again.
That bugs me on a 20-minute ride on the bus... I can't imagine an hours-long flight!!! UGH
For f*** sake! I have a 2yr old. His headphones go were he goes. Old enough to watch videos, old enough to wear headphones!!!
Same here! When my daughter was a toddler she got as much iPad time as she wanted on flights (a rare treat) and she knew that if she wanted sound her headphones had to be on
That's awful. I probably would've started watching the most obnoxious, inappropriate comedy I could. & I can't weat earphones either so I guess your kid will learn some new words from Dave Chappelle on this flight!
UNITY!!!!!!!
I worked with infants and toddlers with special needs in Early Start and we were inundated with toddlers showing developmental delays from being being on handheld devices all day. The delays were a result of an attachment disorder, which is a severe mental health condition in toddlers which later becomes personality disorders in adulthood. They are also a great way to introduce addiction to toddlers who will now scream if you dont let them have it. Not only was that parent oblivious to the needs of everyone around them, they were oblivious to their own kid's needs. Parents who emotionally neglect their kids also tend to give them whatever they want, to get them to shut up, so they can go back to selfishly avoiding interacting with their own child. The kid becomes a behavioral mess no one wants to be around, but its the parents fault. This is how personality disorders are passed down from parent to child. Emotionally neglected kids grow up to emotionally neglect their kids.
It looks like a cool hat but not on a plane, not on a train , not on a boat ....
I would not like it here or there, I would not like it anywhere. I do not want a light-up hat, Sam-I-Am.
Only at home sitting at the foot of the parents bed ALL night. Every night.🤨
It's a theme park hat
It is the responsibility of the airline attendants to fix the issue. Where were they? Ridiculous.
We don’t know that the airline attendants didn’t fox the issue shortly afterwards. However, first and foremost the problem is the parents.
Correction there hun, it's the parents at fault here. The attendant can ask the parents to please stow the hat. But really it should have been packed in the first place
Why is it anybody else's responsibility to parent someone else's child? Do you also think that it's the school teacher's job to teach your kids manners? What's ridiculous is people like you who think that it's everybody else's job to fix your failures as a parent. It isn't. Do your job and either raise your kid, or deal with a goblin who has no manners, no respect for you, can't cope in the real world and plays video games in the basement at the age of 40 while you whine about how society failed you both.
Airline attendants aren’t parents. Teachers aren’t parents. Police aren’t parents. Parents are parents and I’m sick of bad parents demanding that other people do the parenting for them. Grow up and raise your child right or get “fixed” like the ignorant dog you are.
It's the responsibility of the parents to tell him he can't wear that thing on a plane, or at the very least keep him from turning the lights on.
Maybe I'm going out on the wrong limb here defending what the OP (Marnie) ~potentially~ meant: but the way I interpreted their wording, "fix the issue," is that Marnie (hopefully!) agrees with all of us that the parents are to blame for the behavior occurring in the first place, but after a fellow flyer behaves inappropriately like this (as anyone who has flown knows isn't a rare occurrence) then the flight attendants should have intervened and addressed the issue on behalf of the safety of their flight and the rest of the passengers. Hopefully they did. Is there any report on whether that happened or not?