{"id":29161,"date":"2014-12-12T00:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T05:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29161"},"modified":"2014-12-11T21:59:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T02:59:53","slug":"modern-parenting-just-go-right-ahead-dear-mommys-got-your-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/modern-parenting-just-go-right-ahead-dear-mommys-got-your-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern parenting: just go right ahead, dear, Mommy&#8217;s got your back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2014\/12\/the-underparented-child-flies-again-stop-go-right-ahead-parenting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Alkon<\/a> didn&#8217;t enjoy her most recent flight &#8230; but not because of the TSA goons, scheduling issues, or the ordinary wear and tear of flying. It was an encounter with the most modern, up-to-date parenting style:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ll take snakes on a plane. Snakes are quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, I woke up at 4 a.m. to fly to an event across the country. \u201cI\u2019ll sleep on the plane,\u201d I told myself. And no, I wasn\u2019t being naive.<\/p>\n<p>I came prepared: I had my \u201casshole-canceling headphones\u201d (big Bose over-the-ear \u201ccans\u201d), industrial-grade earplugs to wear underneath, and an iPhone with selections of white noise.<\/p>\n<p>The cute blonde 3-year-old seated in front of me wasn\u2019t a screamer. She was a talker \u2014 in a tone and volume appropriate for auditioning for the lead in \u201cAnnie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I figured she would quiet down after takeoff. She did not. And, sadly, even $300 worth of Bose technology was no match for this kid\u2019s pipes. After about 20 sleep-free, \u201cSUN\u2019LL COME OUT TOMORROW!!\u201d minutes into the flight, I leaned forward and whispered to the child\u2019s mother, \u201cExcuse me, could you please ask your little girl to be a little quieter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n<p><em>No?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lucky me, seated behind another proud purveyor of \u201cgo-right-ahead!\u201d mommying. And in case you\u2019re wondering, I didn\u2019t ring the call button to \u201ctattle\u201d on her. Those uniformed men and women walking the plane are flight attendants, not nursery school dispute resolution experts. Also, a mother who sees no reason to actually, you know, <em>parent<\/em>, is unlikely to start because a lady with a pair of wings pinned to her outfit tells her she should.<\/p>\n<p>We experience more and more of this these days \u2014 parents who apparently see any correction of their children\u2019s behavior as a form of abuse. We have \u201cparents\u201d like this in my neighborhood. Throughout the day, through closed windows, you can hear this horrible high-pitched screaming. No, nobody\u2019s taken up urban goat slaughter. Those are the impromptu audio stylings of their 3-year-old going underparented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Alkon didn&#8217;t enjoy her most recent flight &#8230; but not because of the TSA goons, scheduling issues, or the ordinary wear and tear of flying. It was an encounter with the most modern, up-to-date parenting style: I\u2019ll take snakes on a plane. Snakes are quiet. Last Saturday, I woke up at 4 a.m. to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,13],"tags":[374,375,202],"class_list":["post-29161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","category-usa","tag-children","tag-parents","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Al","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29162,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29161\/revisions\/29162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}