Originally Posted by
katan
What if the parent of the child with the bad behavior gave you the snack? Would that make it work?
I almost look at this as a Peace Offering, but it only works if the parents make an effort to defuse the situation first.
When we brought our 3 year old son home from China, we made some small bags of candies and chocolates and handed then out to the seat mates in the vicinity of ours. Since we had just adopted him a week before, we had no idea how he would take to the flying but we wanted to show that we were aware of a potential problem.
Unfortunately, the only time we had a problem was when the captain had the fasten seatbelt sign on for over an hour for turbulence that was reported ahead (but we never saw). While we wanted to rectify the situation, he just wanted cuddles which we couldn't give him at the time.