It'd be nice to see one which is a combination of two well-known signs
"No babies are left in this vehicle overnight"
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... or the more honest alternative "tool on board".
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....."How's my baby - Phone 0900 666 666"
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Be fair though, at least the drivers with the B.O.B. signs are at least, at that moment anyway, showing the basic decency not to transport them on an aeroplane.....Now that really is offensive.....
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>>showing the basic decency not to transport them on an aeroplane
ermmm I don't think parents do it for fun, somehow.
I caught an overnight flight a couple of years ago from New York to Bristol, and was sat behind a mother with her eight week old baby. Not a peep out of the latter all night.
Perhaps you should avoid flying from B'ham to Duesseldorf around Christmas, as I'll have my eighteen month old daughter with me. She doesn't do sitting still for long.
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are at least at that moment anyway showing the basic decency not to transport them on an aeroplane.....Now that really is offensive.....
You are 100% right. Ours is 22 months old and will not be setting foot on a plane until he's at least 3 and can be relied upon to do as he's told, even when very tired and very bored.
However, the conversations i've had with some friends is from a totally opposite viewpoint. Their attitude seems to be 'I have a right to travel and if I happen to have a squawking kid with me, too bad'.
I think any human being that travels on a plane, at any age, should have to have their own seat. Why should the person in the next seat have to have the head or feet of someone else's kid?
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"until he's at least 3" and "relied upon to do as he's told" in the same sentence...
Oh Westpig just you wait. They get worse not better mate!
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best I have seen was on back of truck that empties portable toilets
"No stools left on board overnight"
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"until he's at least 3" and "relied upon to do as he's told" in the same sentence...
LOL, I take it you wont be flying untill he is almost an adult then. :-)
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I read that as until he's at least 3" and thought crikey that's titchy, what's he doing, spending the first six months of his life on a charm bracelet?
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3 inches ?....make him a nice, cosy little travel cot out of a cig packet and he'll be no trouble at all !
Ted
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On a train to Paris a few years ago with a child of 18 months or so nearby, a well turned out nipper from the Mediterranean somewhere. It was preverbal but had developed an extraordinary squeak, somewhere between a bat and a train whistle, extremely painful to hear even once, let alone every thirty seconds from London to Paris.
Do parents find this sort of thing charming? Do they secretly encourage the little hellions and even give them a bit of tuition? The parents of this one seemed wholly unaware of the painful effects of their offspring's monotonous shrieking. They looked a harmless couple but I longed to kick them.
A bit of babbled discourse is one thing, but there's nothing useful to be gained from that sort of self-expression. Everyone knows babies are formless beasts. They are supposed to be learning how to behave like humans. A bit of repression isn't always a bad thing.
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>>You are 100% right. Ours is 22 months old and will not be setting foot on a plane >>until he's at least 3 and can be relied upon to do as he's told, even when very tired >>and very bored.
We took our 4 yr old and 2 yr old on a plane for the first time this year, after much hesitation. They thoroughly enjoyed it, and after much worrying was a complete non-event for us. The 4 year old got taken into the cockpit to meet the captain when we boarded, and thought being able to order a glass of iced water and do her colouring on a posh picnic table was all terribly grown up and fantastic. The younger one giggled like the adrenaline junkie she is as the plane took off, then suddenly grabbed her teddy and passed out, waking up as we landed.
They are not allowed to run riot in restaurants and other public places anyway, so there was no danger of that on the plane. The trick I think is taking enough entertainment for them. And the teddies were invaluable.
You don't know how kids will react until you do it for the first time. Took their favourite toys and the things they love doing, and drilled it into them that if they played up, we'd take the plane home and they'd go to bed for a week! ;-)
Edited by DP on 29/10/2009 at 09:08
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When I moved to Poland, I left my pregnant wife in London to have our son because it was very important that he be English (didn't want him to have to do military service here). They followed about a year after me so I would fly back every week and about every fourth week they'd fly out to see me. Consequently he'd made about a dozen flights by the time he was one, including other foreign holidays and wotnot. My daughter too, who is a year younger. As I recall there was never any problem, it's the vile, drunken, fat adult dobbers leaving their filth and vomit behind that is really objectionable - as anyone who has ever flown a package from Malaga to Manchester Airport will know.
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