I had the same thing on an Eighteen hour flight. I lasted two hours with the kid behid me screaming like the little hellwretch that she was, throwing a massive tantrum and kicking my seat. I have very good noise cancelling headphones, and had death metal blasting at full volume. I could still hear her. I asked the parents but they ignored me. they didn't do anything and just watched the show. Eventually I turned around and yelled at them to "silence your hellspawn before I stab you with this" while brandishing a spork at them through the seat gap. Kid went quiet. Stopped kicking. I understand their plight.

NTA. Yelling at someone who just lets their kid kick/bash someone else’s seat is perfectly ok. That can *really* hurt. (Thank you small kid on the early train out of Paddington who kept rabbit kicking my seat. Today I have to take my strong painkillers)

NTA. The obligation is on the parent to keep their brats entertained and stop them bothering people.

NTA, Indian here. Never heard about this stereotype though. Now I know why people on flights always look at me weirdly or move to another seat when I'm traveling alone. I thought they just didn't want to be seated next to a teenager.

One Sunday in church about twenty years ago, I sat in the same row as a young father with two small children. The father was sitting in the lotus position on the pew with his eyes closed, while the children had discovered that raising the kneeling benches and slamming them down on the hardwood floor made a sharp, loud cracking sound that was almost like a gunshot. I saw people cringing each time the kids did this. Dad just sat there with his eyes closed. Finally, I sidled over, put my foot down on the bench, and gave the kids my most intense "teacher glare." People nearby turned around and mouthed "thank you" at me. Later, at coffee hour, the father came up to me angrily and said that I had scared his children. I said that they had been bothering people, and if I was the scariest thing they'd ever seen, they were too sheltered. He insisted that they were just being high-spirited and having fun, and he wanted his children to have fun in church. We never saw them again.

NTA, I have done this on a bus. The kid was hitting the glass window. Yes, I could have been calmer but I was already kind of scared because the bus was making odd sounds already and I don't like being in vehicles. The tenth time the kid smacked the window after I asked them to stop, I snapped and asked if they were raised in a barn and I demanded their parents pay attention to their crotch goblins before they break the bus's very expensive window. The mom was watching her phone and the dad just pulled his hood down and ignored it all. Kids were ten or so, very much old enough to know better.

I have never flown before, but if I had as a child, my sister and I would have been told to behave and not cause any problems or we would be in trouble when we got home. There is absolutely no reason for children to sit up and cause trouble for an entire flight. If parents can't or don't want to control their children in public or on public transportation, then they need to stay home and just get used to Uber Eats for all of their needs.

Out of control kids are just the worst thing. Every parent just doesn't want to believe that their kids could ever be anything like out of control or do anything like that that would be unimaginable, but it's true. When the parents don't step in something must be done. I blame the parents for their kids being out of control.

You were more patient than I could ever be. I'm impressed you lasted as long as you did, good for you!

I've literally never heard that Indians travelers are "worse" in any terms at all...that was a shock to me. Anyway, I applaud this fella; they were the åssholes, not him. He was polite before and it didn't do the trick, but he tried.

Don't understand why irresponsible parents exist. Don't have kids if you're not responsible enough to raise them to not be insufferable hyenas and animals. Kids need to be taught BOUNDARIES AND DISCIPLINE, and be shown examples of good behavior. I had this one massive tool of a father walk into a fast food restaurant, proceeded to tear apart the display and throw it around with his kids in the MIDDLE OF THE ORDERING LINE/AREA. Then just LEAVE without cleaning up the mess he and his non-human, monkey-children made all over the ground. I asked him if he was going to clean it up since they made a mess and this wasn't a playground, it was a restaurant. He proceeded to get physically threatening and verbally abusive. Absolutely no emotional control and the thought process of a prehistoric cave-person. The standards of parenthood are poor now-a-days.

Obviously not the same thing but my country has something similar about online games, people on multiplayer avoid us like the plague and I 100% understand why, can't expect to be treated nicely when you treat others like c**p. I've never been out of my country but wouldn't be surprised if there was a similar stereotype when it comes to traveling.

The problem here is in todays world we are not allow to spank, hit, and whip our kids. Back when i was little if me or my sibling misbehave you can be sure i get my a*s handed to me by my mom with belts or a whip on my a*s. Do i learn my lesson hell yea after being whip a few times in the a*s. Nowadays we can't do that no more or majority of parents is too soft and prefer talking to their kids. Sorry but between talking and getting whip i learn my lesson when i feel pains.

You need a Gold Medal! Unfortunately the crew cannot eject woman and child mid-flight

It's a horrible thing when friends and family make you second guess your actions in situations they were not even present for. Yell away my friend, their attention to etiquette should have been at 11 while traveling (and more so while traveling with children)

Nta but why weren't flight attendants involved?

I was on a bus trip into NYC. Two women allowed their children to run up & down the aisle like screaming demonic creatures. The bus driver tried to tell the mothers to get their kids under control. It became a running battle of spoiled kids, childish mothers, & a professional bus driver trying to maneuver in fast moving city bound highway traffic. At one point the bus driver had to slam on the brakes & swerve as a car cut us off. Now these women are livid, accusing the bus driver of trying to harm their kids. Now other passengers are fed up with the drama. A group started yelling at the women & their kids. The bus driver even had to threaten to pull over & call 911 to have them all removed from the bus. Some very precise insults were spewed at these two. They were good for the last 30 minutes of the ride in. When it came time to leave the city hours later, the women & their spawn weren't there. The bus driver sat for an extra 5 minutes & then pulled out. Too bad.

Little tip, book the very last seat on a plane. We almost always do this. Yeah you are some of the last to get on and get off but WORTH IT not to have anyone behind you playing with the tray, kicking your seat or sticking nasty feet through onto the arm rest. ew.

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It takes a village to raise a child. If I see that a parent 100 is not going to do anything, I absolutely say something to the child.

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I think OP is spreading a racist stereotype that I have never heard before.