Crying babies

I've had many headaches that could be attributed to a screeching baby's non-stop lung exercise. Just one of those things that can't be helped. We were probably all guilty of similar things at one time or another.

I maybe a bastard for sayin this, but get that kid the fuck off the plane!!

Oh, come on. Babies are going to cry. What would be done with them when they cry?  The pressure changes hurt their little, tender, eardrums and they are reacting.  Get over it!

What if they have a dingo looking at them? I'd sure as hell cry...

Yes,it seems there is a  little damion the omen sitting next to me on every flight. It seems some babies and small kids do mind and are not too disruptive,but that is few and far between.there should be a kid only section.

Screaming children (ages 1-4) are next to worst--with their parents being the absolute worst. (I exclude babies because they can't really help it.) There are several problems: too many of them flying, and worse, not enough PARENTS who know how to discipline their children! Back in the ol' days--the 70s--there weren't that many kids flying on planes. And the ones who were there were generally very well disciplined. Parents judged wisely; probably because 1), the "Me" generation selfishness hadn't quite set in yet and people didn't feel like they had to "win" or get their way all of the time 2) there was some sense of community and ethical responsibility (i.e., we are all neighbors), 3) and because of all this, there were fewer namby-pamby inclinations to spoil their children: you're only as good as the next person. What does it say now when 40+ year old men and women bump into you and glare at you like it's your problem or when they try to cut in line? How is that supposed to set a good... Read more

Seriously, now, the li'l crumbsnatchers need to be banned from those cheap redeye flights. They've caused me more sleepless nights than I can remember.

You can't prevent it but some people wish they weren't there. It's a fact of life that children will always be allowed on the plane.

This used to annoy me until I had kids of my own. These days, I just feel a mixture of relief that my kids are beyond that and pity for the parents, who I know from experience would rather be shaking the baby until its jowls jiggle and the crying gives way to stunned silence on the baby's part, rather than singing about the Itsy Bitsy Spider and shaking rattles, while a couple of rows back, some judgemental assholes sit and and tut-tut about the inept parents up there in the bulkhead seating.

Inept parents should be the ones not allowed.

If I can't have my bottled water and chapstick,I shouldn't have to listen to wailing and screeching for 10 hours.

Depends on how long the flight is! In all seriousness, this is just one of those comes with the territory things. Not exactly a pleasant experience, but there's worse things, for instance, annoying people behind you- drunks, braggarts, nosey people, people talking about their jobs and kids all flight long. I know someone who had the utter misfortune to be stuck in front of The Backstreet Boys' publicist... ( oscargamblefro makes the sign of the crucifix and the southern Italian sign of his maternal grandfather's ancestors to ward off the evil eye.)

Silly, all babies cry at times. Ban the parents, not the babies. I know it may be aggravating when you want peace and quiet but we were all babies once. Now misbehaving toddlers is a different story; many times the parents are not being PARENTS and letting their children be disruptive.

Planes should have gigantic "air strollers" in front of them...it might increase air drag but decrease total drag.