Originally Posted by jpsboo

Just found this thread and noticed no FAs had responded. I'm an FA and at my airline we are not equipped with any toys or games for kids. And if they start screaming- well, if the parents can't handle them, how do you expect us to? We are not a babysitting service. That's just a fact. We've got full planes, minimum crew, and very limited space, too, for the parents to even remove themselves to with the kid. While we're in the aisle with the carts, it's fine if they go to the galley- we're not in there. But once we get back to the galley, they can't hang out there, that's our work space- they'll be in our way plus it will be noisy (if they are trying to get Junior to sleep)


Redeyes are a little easier to accomodate. People are sleeping, (or trying to), so there is not much service. I have invited a parent to come back to the galley with their child a few times until the child calmed down or fell asleep. And it keeps them away from other passengers until the child calms down.

If it's something like running around or kicking seats, then yes, I can say something. But screaming? I don't have any magical powers.

I fly as a passenger too, and also on paid tickets, and I hate it just as much when kids scream or act up on planes. But it is not the flight attendants job to parent the kids. That would be the, uh, parents job.