The problem with smacking your child in public is the idiots that think its their business to put their "2 cents" in & also the ones that think its abuse! They are usually also the ones that are complaining about the children to begin with.

The thing about that though is you can just absolutely ignore strangers. :) bc it's none of their damn business.

If you discipline you're child correctly from the beginning there is no need to use violence, I taught my daughter how to behave from very very young, I have never had to smack her at all and I never would, she is polite and apart from being a typical child always does as she is told, if she has a tantrum, she is left to it and will self soothe then come and apologise for behaving that way. She knows if she does something wrong I start to count to 3, either with my fingers or out loud, only a handful of times I've got to 3 and even less to 2. If she does do something wrong I take something away from her or we go home or she doesn't get her 'day out' ive been told many times that my daughter is exceptionally behaved. I would never let her out of my sight and putting your child next to a stranger on a plane is disgusting, you are their parent, you look after them. I will be on. 9 hour flight with my daughter in October and I already have plans to keep her entertained. Oh by the way my daughter is 3.

Do you want a ******* cookie??

Making the point that you dont need to hit your kids to discipline them if you're a good parent.

Not all kids act the same. Yeah, taking things away, counting to three worked for your child, but it won't work on all. I know some kids that follow. You take away something of theirs when you are upset/mad at them, they take away something of yours for the same reason. There is nothing wrong with spanking a child's behind. Now if ya leaving bruises, thats abuse.

Because the many humans are selfish scumbags, raised to be as such by their equally foul parents, and they will raise their offspring to be just as ****** up as themselves. I know that many people will dislike this comment, but it is true, None the less, and it saddens me greatly.

sometimes it's not the parents fault when the child is a brat. there is the nature vs nurture issue. Some kids just have bratty personalities. parents can try their best to affect it, but parenting is not a hard science.

Even if it is nature rather than nurture, who do you think they inherit the bad nature from? One rather extreme view (which I confess, much to my regret, is sometimes attractive to me) is to drown every one of them at birth. Of course, every time that idea springs into my mind, I hate myself for thinking it. And rightly so.

But you said "try their best." Just, to me, it doesn't look like she is trying at all. The swearing, the strapping him in next to strangers.

Doesn't look like she cares all too much. Screw her, dumping it on everyone else. Who knows how bad she is at home or other places, if she can be so non-chalent about discipline in a pretty public area. **** that child's life. People will judge and the son when the grows up, for his misbehaviour etc, not knowing that the child/adult did not choose this life, they were brought up this way. They don't get to choose thei childhood really, and he probably won't have one. Their childhood/certain opportunities for things will have been DOA because of faulty parenting, and that is disheartening.

I'm considering a solution of dmso and Ketamine soaked into crayon wrappers for moments like this. Giving them and a coloring book to bratty kids should keep them quiet for the flight. Its gotta be easier than trying to compensate for the parenting failures of others.

Please note I'm not serious. Don't try that, just don't.

I totally agree with Doc on this. My girls (20 & 24) are very respectful and I can say never acted like this, in public, sure they may have misbehaved at home and were punished accordingly, but never in pubic. They also knew what "NO" meant, may not have liked it, but they did hear me say it.

Thats a lot to say!

He might break the phone

I agree with 45. I would put headphones on, crank the music up, and let the kid wail.

Better yet tell him that your a sex offender

Haha yes, because sex offender jokes always go over well. Dumbass.

Child sex offenders are ******* immature assholes

fischerxx do you have experience doing this? Or where in your right mind did you think it was an ok/funny thing to say?