WDYT: Flight attendant helping with baby/angry parents?

jettagurl

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/08/17/2010-08-17_flight_attendant_takes_a_baby_girl_away_from_her_mother_who_slapped_the_child_in.html

I don't know all the details, obviously, but had she came up to me and said, "I see she's fussy, mind if I walk with her for a few minutes to give you a break?"  SURE.  

That said, I wouldn't have smacked the baby on her face. But I can see getting frustrated with a fussy baby on an airplane.

 

xbrooklyngrl

The parents were arguing and the mother slapped the baby in the face because she was crying.

Who the F smacks a 13 mos old in the face? I'm glad the flight attenden helped that baby, maybe it'll make that mom think twice.

KrisBriMcBunny

I saw it on Today...I think they said the mother smack the baby on the face and then the flight attendant took the baby.  Apparently the baby had a black eye too.  The flight crew alerted the authorities as they were getting ready to land.  I'm glad they did what they did because you just dont smack a 13 month old for being fussy & screaming.

Temp108743750006959

what xbrooklyn said.

When I flew alone with DS, the flight attendants were so nice and held DS while I went to the bathroom

jettagurl

And they said they concluded it was an isolated incident.  

BUT that black-eye-from-a-dog just doesn't add up, IMO.  

I sure hope the local CPS follows up on that one.   

Rainingdaisys

My thought is, if the parent is slapping the crying toddler in a small confinded public place, WTF is the parent doing in the home when eyes and ears are not focused on her.  Did the cops verify with the uncle about the "dog" giving the child a black eye? 

Zenya

wtf?  why didn't she get a citation? And the kid already had a black eye?  From a dog.  riiiiight.  

If the *** who hits a child in the face like that  in public can you imagine what she's doing in private?   Trash.

mlm1128

2 things come to mind immediately when I read this. 

1-If she smacks her 13 month old in the face on a plane full of people who are obviously watching her, WTF does she do to the kid at home?

2-She is damn lucky the flight attendant just took the baby to try to help.  Had that been me I would have most likely smacked her face before taking the baby.

 

 

#6

I will NEVER understand why people hit/smack a baby/ very young child to get them to stop crying/fussing.  When a baby is in pain it cries....smacking hurts therefore causes MORE crying.  Try soothing the baby instead of beating it.  

Thank God that flight attendant stepped in.  That poor baby.  Like a pp said...if she smacks it in plain view of hundreds of people on a plane I wounder what she does in the privacy of her own home.  God be with that child.  I hate to imagine the 2's and 3's with a mother who smacks a 13month old for fussing.  

  

peekaboo716

xbrooklyngrl:

The parents were arguing and the mother slapped the baby in the face because she was crying.

Who the F smacks a 13 mos old in the face? I'm glad the flight attenden helped that baby, maybe it'll make that mom think twice.

This. I feel sorry for that baby and the family.