Originally Posted by
pinworm
Fundamentally, parents impose upon the rest of us when they take their kids in public. They may have a RIGHT to do it, but that doesn't mean they should. If you don't need to go, don't go and expect us to tolerate being asked to swtich to less desireable seats, to make us witness and smell the soiled diapers you change in your seat, to make us listen and try to eat while your spawn shreik and cry, to prevent us from sleeping because your spawn kick our seats..I am sure traveling with kids is NOT easy..so if it is NOT easy, why do it if it is not an emergency???
It is YOUR obligation to reduce public nuisance that you cause, not MY obligation to tolerate it.
I guess you could argue that everybody imposes on others when they go out in public. People who talk loudly on their cell phones, people who throw cigarette butts on the ground, and on and on. I don't see kids being inherently more of an imposition. In fact, I personally find it more of an imposition when adults do something annoying than when kids do it, because adults (a) should know better (b) can control their actions.
By the way, is your post serious? "while your spawn shreik and cry"...? Seriously?
