Mother and Child Kicked Off Flight

A report was just released in regard to a mother and her 1 1/2 year old son being kicked off a Continental ExpressJet flight in Houston after an 11-hour delay at the airport.

Why, one might ask? The year and a half year old kid, Garron, repeatedly said, "bye-bye plane" as the Continental ExpressJet taxied. A flight attendant came over following the safety instructions and said, "OK, it's not funny anymore. You need to shut your baby up."

The mother, Kate Penland, explained to the flight attendant that Garron would fall asleep soon and the attendant responded with, "It doesn't matter. Regardless, I don't want to hear it. It's called baby Benadryl."

Penland then said, "Well, I'm not going to drug my child, so you have a pleasant flight."

Following that, the attendant announced that they were going to return to the gate and the two passengers (Kate and Garron) were going to make an exit off the plane.

Other witness passengers on the plane stated that the child was no louder than the adults on the flight and were quite surprised and taken back by the flight attendant's words and actions.

At the time I read this article, approximately 65% of the people in the poll disagreed with the flight attendant's actions, 25% agreed, and 10% were uncertain.

Yeah, children can be a little obnoxious on airplanes. They can cry and induce headaches all around them. But, what are parents supposed to do, drug their children, as the flight attendant suggested? Are the parents only supposed to travel via automobile, so that the child's crying doesn't distract or annoy anyone? Are children barred from even speaking, saying such things as, "Bye-bye plane" or "I love you, mommy"? Hey, the more they speak, the less they cry, right? What would those around the child rather hear, the child speaking or crying? I read a couple comments, saying such things as, "If you can't control your child, don't take it on an airplane!" What? This cracks me up, because when they were children and taken on airplanes, I'm sure they did similar such things. It's alright that they did it, but now that they're grown up, it should be illegal for kids to do it. I think the flight attendant's actions were preposterous, I hope that some kind of punishment is enforced on the attendant, and that Kate Penland receives some compensation for what she went through.