Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 3713082" data-attributes="member: 5171">I've flown with the Dude. In no particular order:- Lap belt worked just fine. Given the number of toys and books we had to occupy him, a full car-seat thing would have been a pain.- I don't remember if we hit lots of turbulence, but the kid has flown a lot, so I imagine we must have.- The Damsel and I pretty much always got three seats, with the Dude in the middle. Anything else worked... much less well. (2 seats and a seat in the row behind, for example -- we had to do it on one leg, and wow, that sucked.)- I don't know what your feelings on television are, but I can say that a miniature DVD player (one of the portable ones) or a laptop (with a DVD player) plus "kid's show of choice" will get you through the flight better than almost anything else. I know that television hypnotizes kids and reduces their activity level, and that's bad and all, but on an airplane, hypnotizing them and reducing their activity level is pretty much exactly what you want. The Dude didn't want to watch DVDs the whole time, but a mix of Backyardigans (even at such a low volume that he couldn't really hear them -- he didn't want headphones) and toy cars got us through the flights with minimal pain.- Bring snacks. Food is a good distractor.- Bring something for them to drink during takeoffs and landings, as the Meatball might not know how to do the ear-pop that gets your ears to stop hurting quite yet. Drinking something or eating something seemed to help the Dude.- We always checked the car seat -- I recall that some rental places had 'em, but we weren't always renting a car (we were staying with parents or something), so it wasn't an option for us.I'll ask my wife once she wakes up (she and the Little Bud are napping after an absurdly long and full weekend  -- family in town, and the Damsel, mother of a six-week-old baby, just rowed in a dragonboat race four times over two days; I have married an Amazon Warrior Woman). I'm sure she'll have other things to toss out. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

Verification