Something very wrong with that kid. That is not just a naughty child or a child who has been set poor boundaries. NO normal child screams like that for that long.
And if the parent/s ever decide to take him on a plane again, he should have MAJOR sedation before setting foot on the tarmac. Not just Benadryl. Show any doc this video and I’m sure they’d happily prescribe The Demon something to shut him up and knock him out.
Fuck, I’d had happily strangled that child…thank the stars I wasn’t on the flight.
Oh, it’s cool, I didn’t think you were. Just saying that this seems like something more severe than ADHD. Either way, Mom dropped the ball somewhere, and it’s not fair to the people on the plane.
Everyone that is making comments against the parents can burn straight in hell for all I am concerned. I had it happen to me with my daughter on a flight back from France to Boston. She screamed the entire time on an overnight flight when she was barely 2 years old. I did everything possible to get her to stop but it just didn’t work.
I finally just commandeered a lavatory with the permission of the flight attendants and kept her there over the Atlantic for hours to minimize the inconvenience to the other passengers but I couldn’t eliminate it. I was the most stressed person on the entire flight. We took her straight to the doctor as soon as possible after landing and it turned out that she had a dangerous bowel obstruction. One gigantic poop later fixed it. She really was in a lot of pain and that was the only way she could communicate it at the time.
People with small children need to travel for all kinds of reasons too. Some of those children scream for various reasons and it probably has nothing to do with parenting. The parents are probably the ones most concerned about it but that doesn’t mean that they can stop it on demand.
Just to be clear, that particular child may have been out of bounds and may not have responsible parents but my point is that it is possible for something similar to happen with even the best parents. Young kids and airline flights don’t tend to mix well but they still need to go places too. It isn’t a completely solvable problem because you can’t educate every new parent with toddlers on what to do even if there is a solution at all.
However, the airlines already know about the problem. I have flown by myself with my two daughter since they were very young. It didn’t matter what seats I picked when I bought the tickets. They would usually be reassigned to the very back of the plane which is the cattle area for parents with kids. I didn’t mind. It is that much closer to the restrooms and gives you free access to the flight attendants.
For flights with open seating, I always pick a seat with a young child in the middle because it gives me more room. The vast majority of them aren’t a problem and, when they are, I know how to tune it out. When you have had two children with colic, you can read a book peacefully with anyone screaming in your face.
I wondered about that too. And why is he permitted to run up and down the aisle? Aren’t the attendance busy getting food and drinks and pillows and whatnot to passengers?
Shagnasty, watch the freaking video. The kid is racing up and down the aisles, climbing on seats and screaming bloody blue murder, while the mother just ignores him. With the exception of a “calm down, honey”, she doesn’t do shit. This was totally different from what happened with your daughter. YOU did the right thing. She didn’t.
If that plane had hit turbulance, I can only imagine what would’ve happened to him. Plus at one point, he’s banging on the overhead compartment – what if it came open and something fell out? He could’ve gotten hurt, someone else could’ve gotten hurt, etc.
That’s got to be some sort of autism or other disorder. I teach English to (among others) kindergarten classes, and there are some autistic kids who are like that. There are several children who could be like that at times. Those who suggest stricter disciple would solve that haven’t been around autistic children.
One thing that my wife and I found when our kids were babies and toddlers (younger than this kid) and would cry on buses or airplanes is that I got a lot more sympathy as a father trying to handle it than my wife did as the mother. It could very well be that the quickest way for the child to calm down is for the parent to remain calm and steady, but the down side is that it looks like you’re not doing anything. I don’t know why she didn’t explain it to the people around.
Thankfully we didn’t have this level of child to deal with.
I wondered this too. Checked out his instagram page he linked to the video. He has photos of himself with friends doing outdoor stuff with full on forehead ashes on ash Friday. Most photos are kayaking, camping.
But it’s ironic that he used media to film the event. Poor guy and poor passengers! Hope the kid gets help.
I have a second cousin who was like that as a child. On one visit he knocked over the bookcase in our living room and threw a brick at my head, screaming the entire time. His mother smiled and said “Isn’t it wonderful that he knows how to express himself.”
Just saying that this seems like something more severe than ADHD. Either way, Mom dropped the ball somewhere, and it’s not fair to the people on the plane.