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and its awesome

love climbing on the deck and seeing them fly off on random nights

OMG you're so hard living in your 3,000 sq ft apartment in Adams Morgan. You tell him these stories of ghetto hardships.

Wow...

This fact is relevant to the discussion. I think you enforcing a noise ordinance on your neighbors starting at 9pm is a bit extreme still. Small children sleep like 16 hours a day, it will get over it.

Your behavior pushes all my buttons.

You are a giant pussy.

I would have desired to engage in fisticuffs so that I could instruct you on how to be less of a woman.

I get angry as hell seeing people fly with kids- but it seems like there's at least one on every flight! That comes from someone who flies regularly and also has a 6 year old (who has never been on an airplane.. because I'm not an asshole when it comes to that shit).

Frankly, the parents need to be more considerate of their OWN CHILDREN, not just the other passengers who will suffer because of them. This is just bro-science, but I assume babies don't understand the tricks of adjusting the pressure in their ears like older people do. Naturally, they cry because their ears hurt. Quit inflicting pain on your children and pain on your fellow passenger. Bad parenting, imo.

I didn't take my kid to a restaurant until he was like 4 and I knew I could check his punk ass if I needed to. I always had an irrational fear of being "that parent" with the out of control child who bothered everyone. So I avoided that potential at all costs. People should be more like me. Fuck your kids.

Reading through the rest of the thread...

You are in no way a considerate neighbor if it even crossed your mind to engage in the behavior that you did.

Please, I beg you, go to the supermarket and buy two gallons of olive oil. Take it home and fill a large spaghetti pot with the oil. Heat the oil until it begins to smoke. Remove the oil from the heat and immediately pour it over yourself. This is the only way to atone for what is assuredly a lifetime of complete douching.

I'm assuming that you're a man. If you are in fact a female, then I retract everything I have said. Because, clearly, you are instead just a bitch.

I think I'm the most pissed off for Crimterp's kid. What the hell type of bedtime is 8:00pm, anyway?

Yea, that's completely insane.

You're sitting next to your child on the flight, he's kicking the seat in front of you because he isn't interested in your lame-ass Leapfrog educational games and you're going to be pissed at the dude in front of you for asking to make him stop? What?

One thing I've never understood, and parents out there can explain to me why this is unreasonable if it is, is why parents never consider it an option to physically restrain their children if they're being physically disruptive. I'm not saying backhand a 2 year old, but if he's kicking the seat in front of him, grab his legs, hold them against his seat and tell him firmly to keep them there. Why is that impossible?

Mini-me is 6 and his bedtime is 8PM unless he has some sort of sport practice that runs late. He gets up around 6:30AM most days. We usually go to bed around 10PM since I get up at 6AM every day. Kids need more sleep than adults and adults need the kids to be asleep for a bit so we can unwind. When you have kids you will realize the importance of letting/making kids sleep. Nap time is sacred and actually a legit excuse for cancelling daytime plans with someone.

That being said, your kid's sleep should not impinge upon your neighbors' lives, except to the extent that your neighbors are being unreasonably loud.

And its also ridiculous to suggest that parents should never travel with a kid. There's a huge difference between traveling with a kid and just ignoring him while letting him be the entire plane's problem and traveling with a kid and basically spending the entire flight making sure that the kid is entertained/not bothering other passengers. We spend our flights doing the latter and it sucks for us, but that's our responsibility as parents. It is unconscionable to expect the rest of your flight to be put out just because you don't feel like spending the flight actively distracting your kid(s).

The neighbor is probably the father of the kid you're raising, why don't you let him do what he wants?

I think that was only suggested to the people who though seat kicking was inevitable, and acceptable.