degas

Duct tape, applied early and liberally, will reduce the instances of the precious little ones kicking the seat in front of them. It also muffles crying and whining.

richardab

Its also great for getting airline blanket lint off a black sweater.

LoveItaly

Monica, since you wrote again - let me assure you that the passenger in front of your little darling felt the kicking of the seat.
And, my last flight, I had the same situation. The child behind me kicking, kicking, kicking (he was about 3 years old).
And since the mother could not control her child I finally, and very nicely said "dear, please stop kicking the back of my seat". The darling child glared at me and the mother put her arm around her son and said "honey, I'm sorry, you know some people just don't like children". Oh boy!
Fortunatly there were some vacant seats on the plane and consequently I moved to one of them.
Again, I love children, but I feel very very sorry for anyone around children, and the children themselves that do not have parents that teach them how to behave in public (or in their own homes for that matter).
And guess what? I was a child myself at one time.
From the time I was three years old I was taken to beautiful restaurants in SF and was always greeted with pleasure.
Wonder why"
Parents that taught me how to act appropriately.

MonicaRichards

Are you saying that I forgot to bring discipline for my kids? Because if you read what I wrote that's not what I said. I'm sorry, no matter what LoveItaly says, there is no way you can take a 3.5 year old, wake them up at 5am, fly a two hour flight and then a 10.5 hour flight (which turned into a 12 hour flight due to a medical emergency on board) and have them "yes, maam, no maam" the whole time. The question is, how far can a parent go on a flight? I can't hit her (plus that would make the noise issue worse), she knows I can't put her in a timeout, at that age threats don't work very well because they've forgotten the consequence by the time you've administered it. Mostly I just thought it was funny the idea that there was ANYTHING that could keep a young child entertained for that long of a flight. If there was a toy that cool, I'd be the first in line to get it.

highledge

on one of our last transatlantic flights a young boy (5-ish I'd guess) was sitting behind my 8 year old son. The boy kept kicking my son's seat and just wouldn't shut up! My son finally turned to me and said wow that kid is so annoying! Why does he keep kicking my seat?
I just thought it was rather funny as I've spend many a flight grabbing my son's feet before he could make contact with the seat in front of him.

Yes there are pain in the neck bratty kids. But a pain in the neck adult........usua;;y more of a problem in my opinion