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Let this idea catch on. And not just with airlines either. Restaurants, movie theaters, basically anywhere that kids go and parents are too lazy to control them.
As a parent, I actually support this idea. And it’s partly because kids are simply not always “controllable,” by any human, in a confined space after many hours.
Before I was a parent, I thought the right discipline would solve everything, but airplanes in particular are brutal environments, with very little space to move and limited options to distract them. Even screens, which are close to a silver bullet, don’t always work. Travel is exhausting and challenging for kids, and kids were never evolved well to handle being locked in a seat for hours, let alone dealing with pressure and time zone changes.
So please, until we have adults only zones, have a little patience. There are certainly bad parents, but I guarantee that most of them want their kid to be quiet even more than you do.
I'd imagine sending all the grumpy old codgers to their own zone will be a huge bonus for frazzled parents.
I was thinking... what's the acceptable level of pain we can put children through when travelling? If kids suffer during flights, why is it OK to fly with them? Because it's convenient?
You know that pressure changes in an air plane are painful for children?
They're painful for babies. You can teach a child how to pop their ears. We all learned at some point.
Aren't babies children?
Not all children are babies. Saying "it hurts human ears" would also be correct, but disingenuous.
This type of nitpicking is what I'm looking for in a good internet discussion. Thanks.
Bro, universal kid ban. No more kids anywhere, problem solved.
As a supporter of the voluntary human extinction movement, I agree.
Yes fucking please.
Apparently they used to have soundproof rooms in the back of nice movie theaters where u could take your crying child and still enjoy the movie...as much as possible
Supermarkets. Just put a small cage outside, you will be out in 20 minutes, the kid will be fine. It's not like parents actually need their kids to scream that they want ice cream when shopping. I definitely don't need to hear it.
That's the dumbest idea I've seen all day. Like, seriously. That's basically begging for kids to be kidnapped from there.
Who would want to kidnap a kid? They are useless, cost a lot of money and if you want one you can just make one easily.
Can you confirm that you are being sarcastic? I found this answer very funny, but in the second thought, I feared that this was in fact not sarcastic and that I would upvote something wrongly 😅
Of course I'm being sarcastic.
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The local IKEA where I grew up had an area near the entrance where parents could leave their kids while shopping.
It had like a ballpit, slides and stuff to climb. It was pretty neat.
I'd be more surprised if there is an IKEA that doesn't have a Småland. Like meatballs, it's kind of their thing right?
North American detected, you bunch of helicopter parents.
This completely ruins my plan of training the children to do the shopping for me so I can just go sit in the cafe until it's time to pay.
Why can't you train the children to pay?
But then I'd have to do all the shopping!