Originally Posted by
bocastephen
Hopefully she learned from this experience to just say no next time.
Sounds like a great learning experience. We want our children to make mistakes that don't involve injury, financial cost, or forever-online embarrassment. We give them conflicting messages, like "be nice & considerate" and at the same time "don't get taken advantage of" (particularly our daughters). Spending all those hours fuming in a middle seat transatlantic will do more than any parental lecture to better prepare her for the next time. Perhaps a response to a request to move, like "I'd be glad to, as long as it's another aisle seat forward of the row I'm in now." That way, you're not actually saying no. If they insist, then there's always the fallback, "my Dad/Mom told me not to swap my seat, sorry." Who's going to argue with that?