• @ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    Lol. I’m also not the biggest fan of children, but what are the parents supposed to do? Not having vacation? Leave them home alone? Throw them out the window on the drive to the airport?

    • @CaptFeather@lemm.ee
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      52 years ago

      They can pick a vacation where they don’t have to fly… They chose to have kids and that comes with a lot of baggage.

    • get a sitter. If you can afford a holiday, budget for a sitter.

      Or don’t have holidays until the snot factories are old enough to behave if you can’t afford a sitter. You chose to have children.

    • Usually, yes. Stay home or have a sitter or nanny. If it’s a family emergency or tragedy, benedryl for the child before the flight. Do NOT change the child outside of the plane’s lavatory. Premium economy, not business class, as premium has some perks for bringing your baby, is more affordable than business class. Daytime flights if possible. Red-eye’s people want to sleep. Be prepared, binkies, blankets, diapers, quiet toys, etc. Try to fly when you will have the most energy, hard to parent if you yourself are sleeping from exhaustion. (not always a choice, we know.) Insure your flight. If the baby is sick, colic, or especially if it has inner ear problems, don’t go or again, arrange care for the child. No need to make the baby suffer, and in turn making you and everyone else miserable, too. Many people will not be kind if the child wasn’t feeling well and kept them up 14 hours, which will be hard on you in addition to your own exhaustion.