Category Archives: Air Travel

Taking Discipline into our own hands

By Jodi Cohen | Published: June 10, 2010
I previously shared an incident where a woman seated in front of my daughter hit her legs mid flight. Apparantly this situation is not unique as Phoenix police are currently investigating an incident on a Southwest Airlines flight where a woman allegedly grabbed a child who was kicking the back of her seat in March. [...]
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Whatever happened to the Friendly Skies?

By Jodi Cohen | Published: April 11, 2010
When asked how having a child had changed her life, comedian Amy Poehler deadpanned, “Now no one wants to sit next to me on an airplane.” Barbara Walters concurred with that opinion last week on The View when she suggested that families with small children should fly on separate airplanes, or better still a different [...]
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Should bad parents be banned from planes?

By Jodi Cohen | Published: March 24, 2010
Southwest airlines banned fat people from flying. Now MSNBC’s Christopher Elliott is claiming negligent parents shouldn’t be allowed to fly either. Elliot defines negligent parents at those: In “denial” who think their child can do no wrong. Who don’t care if the child misbehaves. Who are incapable of controlling their child (because every parent knows [...]
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It’s never okay to hit my kid

By Jodi Cohen | Published: November 23, 2009
On a recent cross country flight, I had an opportunity to test my own mommy manners. Both children were quietly watching a movie when the man on the aisle in front of me informed me that my daughter, who was seated near the window, was kicking the woman in front of her. I found this [...]
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Flying the not so kid friendly skies

By Jodi Cohen | Published: October 27, 2009
Nothing strikes terror into the heart of new parents like the idea of being confined with a small child and many strangers in a small space thousands of feet in the air, especially if their little one is colicky or hard to soothe. We traveled a lot with our little ones and we always over-prepared [...]
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