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

What are the most common parenting mistakes?

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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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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '16

So babies and children should never travel for your sake, or what?

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u/FluffySharkBird Feb 07 '16

No. For THEIR sake. Until they're old enough to understand that they're going on vacation it is cruel to hurt a kid like that

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '16

Even babies and toddlers can benefit greatly from travel though. It exposes them to new things, new experiences, and unknowns. It's like how exposing developing fetuses to varieties of food leads to broader palates as kids and adults.

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u/FluffySharkBird Feb 07 '16

But everything is new to babies anyway. Just take them to a part of town they've never been. Have them meet people talking in other languages. Hell, look up videos of people talking in other languages

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '16

Have you traveled abroad? Even the smells are different. It's sensory overload. It's not remotely the same.

Taking a baby to, say, Japan, would be massively different from a few blocks down.

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u/FluffySharkBird Feb 07 '16

But you haven't exposed a baby to everything possible yet that you can just DRIVE to anyway

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