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[–] ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Lol. I'm also not the biggest fan of children, but what are the parents supposed to do? Not having vacation? Leave them home alone? Throw them out the window on the drive to the airport?

[–] riceandbeans161@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

get a sitter. If you can afford a holiday, budget for a sitter.

Or don’t have holidays until the snot factories are old enough to behave if you can’t afford a sitter. You chose to have children.

[–] Firipu@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's see who will pay for your retirement and medical care eventually... (unless if you live in that US hellscape ofcourse)

[–] CaptFeather@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If that's all you're having kids for please do not have kids.

[–] Firipu@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, one hundred percent. The only reason I got kids was to make sure they can take care of my retirement.

Just as I'm taking care of my parents. I have totally absolutely 100% not broken off all contact with them because of their shitty behaviour. No sir, absolutely not.

[–] CrabLord 1 points 1 year ago

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

well most likely be dead before anyone under 30 reaches that age.

[–] CaptFeather@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

They can pick a vacation where they don't have to fly... They chose to have kids and that comes with a lot of baggage.

[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Usually, yes. Stay home or have a sitter or nanny. If it's a family emergency or tragedy, benedryl for the child before the flight. Do NOT change the child outside of the plane's lavatory. Premium economy, not business class, as premium has some perks for bringing your baby, is more affordable than business class. Daytime flights if possible. Red-eye's people want to sleep. Be prepared, binkies, blankets, diapers, quiet toys, etc. Try to fly when you will have the most energy, hard to parent if you yourself are sleeping from exhaustion. (not always a choice, we know.) Insure your flight. If the baby is sick, colic, or especially if it has inner ear problems, don't go or again, arrange care for the child. No need to make the baby suffer, and in turn making you and everyone else miserable, too. Many people will not be kind if the child wasn't feeling well and kept them up 14 hours, which will be hard on you in addition to your own exhaustion.