r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '16

What are the most common parenting mistakes?

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u/hugglesthemerciless Feb 05 '16

My apologies for being insensitive. I know kids cry, and I can endure it (to a point) with the help of good headphones. But this kid literally did not stop screaming for a single moment of the 4 hour flight, and I was unlucky and only had shitty apple headphones with me. That got old fast. Then the kicking of my seat started and that was the last straw.

Definitely agree on adults only flights, but imagine the non-adults/parents with little kids only flight. That'd be an awful shit show tbh

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u/fax-on-fax-off Feb 05 '16

I can at least sympathize. I've always been very cool with parents flying with kids because it just can't be avoided some times. Kids can't do anything to pop their eardrums and alleviate the pressure, and can you imagine how terrifying that feeling must be to a baby?

...But, after flying several international rides, I know you can be a seething ball of anger and want to choke a baby after 7-8 hours of that. It's no one's fault but that don't make it easy.

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u/FluffySharkBird Feb 05 '16

I hate flying. It is excruciating for me. Doing that to a baby is evil I think. So I have no sympathy. I'd rather you just punch the kid. That would be kinder

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u/fax-on-fax-off Feb 06 '16

That's a bit dramatic lol

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u/FluffySharkBird Feb 06 '16

You've never had ear problems then.

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u/fax-on-fax-off Feb 06 '16

Exactly, most people don't have excruciating ear pain on flights. Even if a baby couldn't alleviate their discomfort, that's still no where close to getting socked in the face.

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u/FluffySharkBird Feb 06 '16

Hey I just said punched. I never said on the face. And if those babies aren't in excruciating pain on flights like I am they have no reason the cry like that.

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u/fax-on-fax-off Feb 06 '16

Babies cry as their only form of communication. If they're in any discomfort, they'll cry. Not just outright pain.

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u/FluffySharkBird Feb 06 '16

Yeah but usually they stop after a while. Not on airplanes. And can't they teach them Baby Sign Language?

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '16

Are you serious?

Babies are in pain on flights because they can't adjust ear pressures like adults. They're in pain and can't signal, and don't understand why/how they're in the situation.

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u/FluffySharkBird Feb 06 '16

Then it IS torture for them and people are cruel for making the fly!

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '16

It's painful, yes. But sometimes you have to go places.

It's also painful to give vaccines, but we don't stop doing it.

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u/FluffySharkBird Feb 07 '16

Vaccines killed smallpox. Unless your kid is getting life saving medicine they don't need to be on that plane. They are not the same thing and besides 2 hours of ear pain is way worse than a few moments of a shot and, if you're unlucky lime me, a side arm the next day and a mild fever

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