This is poor advice, especially since you can get stuck with no space for your carry-on. The better advice? Get everything out of the way and train your kids not to behave like spoiled brats on a plane. I always make sure my kids have already gone to the restroom (no one wants to put kids in the cramped airplane…

This is a bad recommendation, and one sure way to raise entitled kids.

I support the “let it be” standpoint. The kids today are already *too* protected. I certainly don’t remember my parents fussing over me the way parents do nowadays. By all means keep it away from toddlers who are too young to understand. But teenagers? I will just treat it as “another thing that help weed out…

I find it fascinating that people who do not eat rice as a staple tend to be most dismissive (somewhat snobbily, I must add) of the rice cooker. As someone coming from an ethnic group that actually eats rice for practically every single meal, I can tell you that the so-called rice served in most restaurants are…