Originally Posted by
ottergal
Kudos to you for that! I will play peek a boo and smile and wave too and have a tolerance for the kids... however after traveling with my friend and my 1 year old god son, I think that I start to put more and more responsibility on the parent to be prepared.
This strategy can backfire too. I was once traveling with a friend who did the peekaboo thing with a kid seated in front of her who kept hanging over the seat back. He quickly decided that she should do that or entertain him in other ways for the length of the flight. The mother made no effort to control or entertain him herself.