For future reference, most airports have a chapel and many of those chapels have small bottles of holy water. Simply grab one and apply when necessary 
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What could she do? Well, let’s go with ‘they’, both parents. They could not take a kid like that on planes, or other public transport. Yeah, it’s inconvenient for them. But they made a conscious choice to spawn. They know what effect their kid is having on the other passengers. Everything in this video is the result of choices they made. They should be the ones to suffer the consequences of their choices, not others.
This video really is another great argument for child-free flights.
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This would be a good video to take to high schools when lecturing students on the realities of parenthood.
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Mark - why are you shaming this family by posting this on your blog? I’m sure that mom was having a much worse time of it than everyone else on the plane. You don’t know the full situation. The child might have behavioral problems. When people say “She lets the kid do what he wants” (like in the video caption), I suspect they’re not a parent. A child is a person. Sometimes they listen to you, sometimes they don’t. Physically restraining the child would have led to more blood curdling screams.
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They could at least pretend to care about their child and his behavior and maybe even apologize to fellow passengers. Even communicating a plan like “I have to ignore him or it will get worse” would be better than this.
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You mean the episode with the chick… oh. right.
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You are right. They could have done a lot of things in that situation. Some thing might have helped, some might have made the situation worse. IMO, the parent probably could have made better choices, either in anticipation of the flight or in response to the situation, but I would be very reluctant to chastise the choices that they made without having a better understanding of the situation than an edited video titled “Demonic child screams and runs…” that was posted to YouTube.
The point I wanted to make was that as I watched the video, I felt far more sorrow for the parents’ situation than contempt. It was many, many years ago, but I remember the embarrassment I felt when my sister acted out in public. I would sense the critically judgmental looks and hear the just-under-the-breath comments of strangers and feel shame.
It’s certainly possible that the parent was clueless and self-involved and inattentive, or that she couldn’t care less about her fellow passengers’ discomfort. It’s also possible that she felt horrible and frozen in that situation, knowing that people with video cameras would be recording every interaction.
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Unless this was something they had no way to know could happen, which is almost inconceivable, they shouldn’t have brought him on a fucking airplane. I wish they could blacklist fuckers like this from flying. As someone who travels for work a lot, inflicting that on your fellow passengers for an intercontinental flight is inexcusable. They should be liable for damages to every single person on that flight who had to put up with it.
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Emphasis added.
Would you be okay with paying more for you flight so a kid with a disability and his family could fly by themselves on their own chartered flight?
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We always bought an extra seat for my daughter. she never used them and always wanted to sit on our lap the whole way. Could have saved quite a penny 
[edit: typo]
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My son is on the autism spectrum, and when he was 5 we flew from Bc to Montreal for my mom’s funeral. He was good company on the flight there, but disruptive on the late night flight back, and too over stimulated to sleep as was expected.
Had I spotted someone recording him at that moment with the intent to youtube, I would have politely snapped the wannabe child-pornographer’s phone in half and fed it to him. One piece down the throat, the other up his nostril.
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Shaming is not a good tactic. It is possible to make an offer of assistance however, or offer a sympathetic ear.
Parents of special needs children who are facing a meltdown moment really do appreciate serious and sympathetic offers of help. It makes us less paranoid that someone will call child protective services on us and have our kids taken away from us by “concerned citizens” who called in anonymously to report on us with no context or understanding of the full situation.
Please judge less and help more
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Hey, an award is an award, take what you can get.
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Shame less, offer to listen more & help if possible.
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We have no reason to believe one way or the other that this kid is special needs just from this video.
I think I’d have tried to ignore this very loud child who’s literally climbing the scenery as long as I could till I’d just yell,
“WILL SOMEONE PLEASE DEAL WITH THIS KID?! IT’S AN 8 HOUR FLIGHT, I’D LIKE TO GET A LITTLE SHUTEYE.”
Then the whole plane would clap and I’d be a hero /s
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It’s not my job (as a random stranger) to help you parent a three year old.
It’s your job (as the parent of a three year old) to not inflict their wrath upon me. Especially in situations I can’t even walk away from. On the street is one thing, being trapped on a plane is another. You do realize most “parenting hormones” are just for keeping the parents from killing their own offspring, right?
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kids can be well brought up, but if a meltdown moment hits it hits. This applies x5 to a kid on spectrum with all routines disrupted.
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Video author has 5 minutes of edits for an 8 hour flight. That is a lot to pick and choose from. What did he leave out that didn’t support his narrative or failed to catch his interest?
You have to admit if he watche’d the kid for 8 hours straight, that would be some creepy predator adjacent behaviour there.
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I have 3. I am sometimes amazed I do not have an injectable prescription for the stuff,
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