Sounds like the flight attendants were more concerned about the child's safety than the parents were. As a captain and father of 2 sometimes you need to be the adult, make the child sit, and dont worry about hurting their feelings. The tears are better than permanent injury from being tossed around the cabin due to not being belted in. Most parents wouldnt consider driving in their car at 30mph without having the child belted in, and would probably call the police on others for doing the same. However the same people think its ok to not use seat belts in an aluminum tube with no airbags at 600mph. I'm sorry, but the flight attendants were clearly smarter than the parents, and the others that still think its ok to not be belted in. That's why flight attendants refer to unbelted kids as cabin missiles.
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