Children in airport etiquette

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What’s your take?

Currently waiting on a flight and children are banging on the back of the metal seats DP and I are sat on. No visible guardian about. Shrieking and running around before circling back to hitting our seats.

I understand children are children and children travelling can make them restless but I don’t think children over 5/6 should be running around an airport screaming and irritating other already tired and bored passengers.

My 4 nearly 5 year old goes absolutely feral at the likes of airports etc. She has ASD and can't cope with anticipation and the excessive waiting around amplifies it. Then the 2 year old feeds off her manic ness and before I know it I have two WILD children. I try and take them but I tend to pick my battle of keeping the tricks for the plane/boat/train and letting them off a bit in waiting rooms. I wouldn't be letting them knock chairs though

Woke and twerk aren't swearing or foul language though I agree tossed salad and tea bagging are pretty gross, but what relevance do they have to this thread? Seeing as it's a thread about children in an airport, and no one has used those terms

I love MN as I learn new things and new terms all the time. I like learning new stuff even if I forget it instantly I might not use some of the terms myself (well I would use tossed salad but only in reference to my dinner ) I also like learning new words like" knobwaffle" which I heard here recently.

I love Mumsnet because it isn't highly moderated or censored (apart from personal attacks which is fair enough) Those people who find swearing offensive and think words like twerk shows a lack of decency, are perhaps on the wrong forum and there are lots more they might prefer. I hear Netmums is highly regarded in such circles

Gatwick North has a play area.

Pretty sure it's still closed whilst they are "refurbishing" or whatever they are doing in there.

This is not exclusive to airports.

Children shouldn’t be running around, banging on other people’s chairs in any setting unless it’s a play area.

There was a child scooting up and down on his scooter last week. People with hot drinks, waitress carrying plates of food and you know it would be everyone else’s fault had that child had an accident.

Yanbu

Um, move to another chair? You are obviously in the play area. Cut them some slack - they will be literally strapped down soon enough.

Excited children playing! How horrific! 🙄🙄🙄

You honestly think that kicking someone’s seat, over and over again is acceptable playing, @Iliterallycantthinkofanythingq?

It is possible for children to play and be happy, even in an airport, without annoying the ever-living snot out of other people - it just needs a bit of effort by their parents to actually, you know, parent. Hint - parenting does not involve completely ignoring your children and letting them run riot.

I had three boys, all full of energy, and we would not have dreamt of letting them annoy other people in this way. We kept an eye on them in public, didn’t let them run riot, and controlled their behaviour if they overstepped the limits.

Manchester Airport is said to have a softplay in T2, I haven't checked this myself.

For those with children with Autism or other needs, Manchester Airport now also has "The Sunflower Room" in T1 (named after the special assistance lanyard); if you request special assistance, they'll tell you about this room.

Behaviour at an airport is no different from what is acceptable in any public place. If they are hitting you chair, tell them to stop.

I was on a flight a couple of weeks ago with a big family group yet it was the adults who were hellish, they were sat all spread out but this didn't stop them shouting down the aisle to one another and even throwing hard sweets about (some of which hit other passengers!). At least with children you can half forgive them as they haven't got the best social awareness yet.

Children should be obscene and not heard. :)

Some parent's do take the piss. It's not that hard to teach your child to behave properly.

Prague airport also has a tiny soft play area too.

Tell them to stop.

Just tell them to stop forcefully! (Why aren't the kids at school .......wonders)

I have a useful line in evil glares for situations just like this.

Oh, the thought of there being something worse than a trunki!! No!!!!! Trunkies and those scooter cases should be banned and so should the parents!

Me and DH had a rare child-free flight a couple of years ago. Family with a 3-4 year old DS behind us was kicking my seat an hour or so into the flight so I turned around and asked the mum politely to get him to stop. He got a hard slap for that so I didn't dare say anything else during the flight despite the ongoing kicking....

Why would anyone look up Bad Words? The Urban Dictionary is usually perverted sex acts and is something 15 yo teens read.

Who is that curious?

They are usually body parts or sex acts FYI.

And TEA Party was actually an acronym for Taxed Enough Already. It wasn't racist. Anderson Cooper coined that phrase; Teabagging. From his social circle.

Which ironically was aimed at mostly middle class American women (many wives of doctors who were protesting Obamacare/losing their practices due to insurance issues) who were protesting the raised taxes by the government and referenced the original Tea Party.

It was hijacked by media to mean something far different.

Hence my disinterest in most Urban Dictionary words. They are either perverted or a perversion of something that is innocent.

We have several soft plays in Edinburgh airport. Furious that they took the massive one away though and just left with smaller play frames .. bit still the novelty value keeps even the 9 year old entertained. Currently at a foreign airport though and all they have is sodding arcades 🙄

Heathrow has a soft play room

AmeriAnn - I don’t know you, but I love you already.... and think you are very brave! I have lost track of the times I have chickened out of wading into the was sat/was sitting debate.
I am a coward!

AmeriAnn Good for you. It seems no-one in England now can use the continuous tense - Indescribably irritating!

We were in Orlando in February and were waiting to board a very packed, overnight flight back to the UK, we were dreading it, looking at the number of children around. With the exception of one family with a collection of children runnign riot the rest were sitting quietly. On the flight we never heard a peep either, one or two harrassed parents doing the loo run, my OH finished up entertaining a small one whilst mum did a nappy change in the loo, he seemed fascinated by OH's beard.
Tell the ones being annoying to go away, should be simple.