Traveling by plane with babies is not well seen by some people who seem to have forgotten that they were once small. Minors have the same right as anyone, but it is inevitable to have to endure bad faces or sometimes unpleasant comments when traveling with children.
Kesha Bernard, a photographer from Seattle and mother of two children was traveling alone by plane when she encountered a situation she didn't like at all. He heard the cry of a baby and some passengers annoyed at the behavior of three children traveling with his mother. She, instead of complaining, he approached and offered his help. He decided to collaborate to calm the crying baby, which ended up falling asleep in his arms, so the mother could take care of her other two children.
Kesha shared on her Facebook profile the story next to the photo of the baby sleeping on top of her. In his message he writes:
Everyone is sitting on this full full plane. A baby starts to cry. No problem ... I have mom's powers and I can ignore it, but what I can't ignore is this:
I hear a woman complaining to this mother because her three-year-old daughter was kicking her seat (the woman had grabbed the girl's leg). While this is happening, the flight attendant is standing ... listening. He doesn't even do anything. And the older men next to me make observations like "obviously their form of discipline is not working."
I turn around and see people muttering and looking at this mother with her three children alone. Being a decent human being, I couldn't leave this mother drowning there ... (and let me tell you that she was keeping calm, I would have been crying, but she was doing so well). I get up from my seat to go a few rows back to ask if he needs help (apparently that is so difficult to do), and he immediately gave me his baby.
Then I had to go sit down to take off, the baby had stopped crying and casually fell asleep.
My point? Be kind and considerate. If someone needs help for the love of God, HELP HIM. Complaining and muttering doesn't do a damn thing, except to make the person who needs help feel worse.
Do kids bother you on airplanes? Collaborate
The first reaction of most people to a situation that bothers him is the complaint and criticism: "What rude children", "parents do not know how to dominate them", "should not travel by plane" ... But, Why don't we go around the tortilla and offer to help?
Evidently the mother of the three would not be having a good time with a crying baby, another kicking the front seat and the passengers commenting on how bad a mother she is.
But the other mother, who was traveling a few rows later, demonstrated her human quality by put empathy into practice, a value that is increasingly difficult for us to exercise. She felt identified as also the mother of two children (three and four years old), put herself in her skin and instead of aggravating the situation, she had the precious detail of helping out.
When it is said that a tribe is needed to raise children, this is an example of what it means. Protect motherhood and help each other so that raising children is more bearable.
