My mom did the same. She would make up her own lyrics to the tune of popular songs and shame the shit out of us. I hated it at the time, but it most definitely worked and I’d be lying if I said I don’t do the exact same fucking thing to my kid. The only difference is I warn mine with a quiet ‘remember, if you act…

So many comments I agree with. My kid was a relative angel on the flights I’ve been with him, but it is so stressful because you have to be prepared for everything and the adults around you give you looks of displeasure all the time. Yeah...I get it...you don’t want to sit by me.

Super agree. I have been on seven flights with my youngest. She is 11 months old. I did not want to go on any of those flights. Just hard to get back home from the Children’s Hospital when it’s 10 hours away. Yup, super fun vacations for open heart surgery. First time I flew with her she was 9 days old. I’d had a c…

If the baby is crying the entire flight, eventually it becomes a solid noise....I think it’s worse when adults talk loudly.

One time I flew on a 15 hour international flight with a very unhappy 11 month old. She finally passed out on me after I sang her to sleep. I didn't think I was so loud but the lady sitting in the aisle across leaned over and said, "I love how you just kept singing to her while she was crying. You were so calm, it…

This is why people dislike some parents with little children on airplanes.

THIS. I have travelled with my babies and I felt like I was managing a time bomb. Even if the baby isn’t crying, there is a palpable judgement and dread from some other passengers. A smile for me or the baby really helped me not to be a ball of nerves the whole time 

Seriously. I invested in noise cancelling headphones (a joy on planes, also without crying babies) and always bring earplugs.

I was on a relatively short flight (around 4 hours) once and there was a baby at the front of the plane pretty much screaming the entire flight. The parents were doing all they could to calm the child, even the flight attendants pitched in to try and help, but nothing was working. That entire flight I just felt bad…

Agreed. As long as the parents are parenting, what more can be expected?

You sound like a screaming baby yourself. Grow up.

This is incredibly stupid and unfair. You shouldn’t waste time making goody bags to try to mollify an entire plane because your baby might cry on the flight.

You’re entitled to a seat. That’s all you get. You aren’t entitled to police your fellow passengers or pick and choose who else gets on the plane.

I travel a fair bit, including many long international flights (I’m fancy, I know) and babies never annoy me. Their parents on the other hand....

I am also entitle to not have to listen to your child scream the entire flight.

I had a mother change her child’s diaper on the seat, directly across the aisle from me. I don’t think the smell dissipated for the entire flight.

Ewwwww that's awful. Everyone I know who did cloth diapers still used disposables for traveling or if the kiddos got sick because the gross outweighs the benefits. 

Jesus, that person needs to get over whatever environmental bugaboos they have and commit to disposable for the flight. No one deserves that kind of horror show. 

OMG. No!!!

It’s all fun and games until you get stuck behind the asshole parent that uses cloth diapers on a long-haul flight and brings them all back to their seat. I’ve never seen so many people hold back their gag reflex at once.