Family booted from Southwest flight

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@Magiver

As I stated before, I would not have been allowed to scream in public. My mother would simply cover my mouth and this was a common practice when I was a kid. Nobody, and I mean nobody would let a child go into a melt-down. It was dealt with at the first peep. Melt-down’s are what occur AFTER a prolonged confrontation with a parent. It’s how the confrontation was dealt with from the start that determines how it will end. If I was grocery shopping with her and started demanding stuff she would stop the process from word one and read me the riot act. It would go something like this. “Can we have this?” “No”. “Why not?” “Because I’m the parent and I make the decisions”. At that point the cart would come to a screeching halt. “If you behave you will get to choose (fill in the blank)”. “IF not, I will choose it.” “Coprende”. And I’d have to acknowledge her with a “yes”.

My mother had many techniques she would use and one of them was pre-emptive strikes. Long before I got on a plane she would explain to me what was expected. If it were a really long flight she would also have worn me down and probably given me something to make me sleepy on top of it. In short, she was a parent. She planned ahead.

After looking at the video I’m going out on a limb and suggest Mamma isn’t a nutritionist and probably fed her feral offspring a double helping of McFries before the flight. I also will suggest that whiney parents instill this behavior in their children (who can do no wrong). Just an observation based on past experience.

Good post. Yes, I see (stereotype?) this family as always being the victim.

[Clothahump]

@Johnny L.A.

IMO SWA were correct to boot them. It cost them $2,000 to get a flight on another airline. That’s too bad, but perhaps it will serve as a lesson. But probably not. They’re demanding an apology from SWA, so they obviously think they did nothing wrong.

Good for SWA! I hope that if the family is dumb enough to sue them, every other passenger will stand up and say the same thing.

$2000? Cheap at the price considering the doctor bills for their kids that would have ensued from the second leg of the trip.