JetBlue joins war on children- Boots family from plane due to toddler's tantrum

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75. This!

OMG. I've had 4 kids. There were a few times my kids have thrown tantrums as toddlers right as you try to buckle them in their carseat. It's not easy to wrangle a child who is kicking then becomes as stiff as a board, and alternates between the 2, into a 5-point harness, but you're right - I just PUT her in it, put the seatbelt around her arms and buckled her. Problem solved. 5 minutes later she was asleep. Maybe the plane needs 5-point harnesses for small kids? Because I can see a kid in a full-blown tantrum wiggling out of those sorry excuse for restraints...I mean lap belts.

Unfortunately, when you are a parent, you learn quickly that your child is prone to certain things at the most inopportune times. If that was my kid, I'd be humiliated, and angry that we missed our flight, but the child was 2 - they really are still babies at that age, just bigger - you can't always blame the child or the parents. I found I was never able to reason with my 2 year olds. When I only had one kid, we went on a plane when she was around 3 and I was SO nervous she was going to have a tantrum (she was prone to having them) but she didn't. The trick is to keep them rested, well fed and occupied. I do feel for the parents, maybe the child didn't normally act like this, this was her worst tantrum ever, they didn't know how to handle it. I dont' know. I feel for them and I feel for the passengers.