People Are “Sick” Of Parents Not Controlling Their Kids After One Brings Light-Up Hat To Red-Eye

That bugs me on a 20-minute ride on the bus... I can't imagine an hours-long flight!!! UGH

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!

For f*** sake! I have a 2yr old. His headphones go were he goes. Old enough to watch videos, old enough to wear headphones!!!

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.

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?

There are other ways to keep a kid happy that don’t affect those around them. Why do so many adults find such a simple concept so hard to wrap their heads around?

Stop advocating for terrible inconsiderate parents who are selfish and willing to disturb people around them. And for you to claim it is reaching that people would have issues with this??? You are awful and I'm guessing have done something similar which is why you are so defensive. Be better

Good parents exist too. Sad this kids parents aren't some of them. She'll probably grow up to be an entitled Karen who thinks everyone else should adapt to her wants and needs. If I have to put on an eye mask, then that kid is going to see and hear the most inappropriate, ranchy, swear filled comedy I can find. If the parents don't like it, hey- earplugs and eye masks exist for kids.

I bring an eye mask on all planes. You would still be able to see the strobing around the edges of the mask. Even with your eyes shut and the mask on some light still leaks in. Even with a good mask. And many people don't have masks. This is annoying. It's meant for Halloween or to wear at a theme park. Not anywhere that people are trying to sleep. Parents and flights attendants should be aware of this.

So if I started watching and listening to something totally inappropriate, or scary right next to that kid you'd say the same thing right? Taking care of myself includes watching grisly true crime stories, the parents shouldn't worry about what I'm watching. They can tell their kid to close her eyes and plug her ears the whole flight. Right?

So even if you don't want to sleep you are supposed to shut your sense down instead of one person shutting of a hat that annoys a bunch if people?