{"id":4980,"date":"2011-05-08T12:34:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2011-05-08T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:54:31","slug":"attention-parents-there-are-some-places-you-should-not-take-your-offspring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4980","title":{"rendered":"Attention parents: there are some places you should not take your offspring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of appearing to be a raving child-hater (I&#8217;m not; nothing could be further from the truth. I love polite, well-brought-up, well-mannered children), I have to state the blindingly obvious.<\/p>\n<p>[deep breath]<\/p>\n<p>There are some places where very young children do not belong.<\/p>\n<p>Some definitions are needed here, for the sake of clarity.<\/p>\n<p>a. By &#8216;very young children&#8217; I mean children who are of such an immaturity that they are out of control<br \/>\nb. And by &#8216;some places where they do not belong&#8217; I mean a long-haul flight.<\/p>\n<p>These things are, surely, just a matter of common sense?<\/p>\n<p>Because, by what stretch of the imagination can it be acceptable, for over 400 long-haul passengers to have inflicted on them a child which, frankly, is just going to scream and bawl its head off for huge stretches of the flight?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4981\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4981\" title=\"out of control child\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/out-of-control-child.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, to ask the same question another way, how can it be right for a pair of parents to fail to consider the sensitivities of over 400 long-haul passengers who just want to rest and get some peace and quiet as they travel from A to B?<\/p>\n<p>Please, tell me, how can it be acceptable for parents to do these things &#8211; either to the child, or to the 440 passengers?<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing this piece, I am four hours in to a ten hour flight.<\/p>\n<p>There are two &#8211; unrelated &#8211; very small children in this aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Between the two of them, these children have bawled uncontrollably for almost the entire four hours.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4982\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4982\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4982\" title=\"out of control child2\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/out-of-control-child2-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/out-of-control-child2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/out-of-control-child2.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This poor behaviour plumbs new depths in the description of &#8216;ineffective parenting&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The pivotal point here is one of selfishness, on behalf of the parents.<\/p>\n<p>How selfish are these parents to bring their &#8216;too young to be controlled&#8217; children on to a long haul flight?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be interested in hearing from parents of similarly unruly little bastards, so that they may explain their justification for inflicting, in such an insensitive, selfish manner, their out of control offspring on over 400 people.<\/p>\n<p>Four hundred people who, to be frank, haven&#8217;t paid hundreds &#8211; if not thousands &#8211; of pounds to sit in an airborne pre-school.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4983\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4983\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4983\" title=\"out of control child3\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/out-of-control-child3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/out-of-control-child3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/out-of-control-child3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/out-of-control-child3.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I realise that what I&#8217;m tacitly saying here is tht if your children are too young to be controlled, you &#8211; as a family &#8211; should be denied air travel.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p>I also understand that I have no problem saying it.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the sake of clarity, I&#8217;ll sum up with:<\/p>\n<p>If your child cannot be controlled (either due to their age\/immaturity or your ineffectiveness as a parent), don&#8217;t take them on long-haul flights.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4984\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=4984\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4984\" title=\"out of control child no more\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/out-of-control-child-no-more-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/out-of-control-child-no-more-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/out-of-control-child-no-more-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/out-of-control-child-no-more.png 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of appearing to be a raving child-hater (I&#8217;m not; nothing could be further from the truth. 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