Really, not relevant and none of your business.How many, how difficult?
This is what I would expect if my flight was delayed.well, when our recent flight syd-sing was delayed by about 4 hours and we were issued meal vouchers. which i think is a decent level of compensation
Really, not relevant and none of your business.
People who choose to breed already get a massive handout from society in terms of rivers of free government money, tax breaks, subsidised schooling for their little brats, etc. And now they expect to be allowed into airline lounges as well?
Give me a break!
And interestingly is a person with many children more deserving of lounge access than someone with just one?How magnanimous of harvyk to deliver these great benefits to our society.
Seriously though, the age of entitlement has to end. They are your kids and you are responsible for tending to their needs and nobody else.
maybe an inexperienced flyer syndrome? Although I get very cranky on Ms FM’s behalf when things go wrong for her, that I would just suck up if they happened to me. The mother lioness definitely come out in meI'm sorry but this is the 'entitled parent' syndrome. And yes, I had children so I do understand.
All you parents out there can attack me all you like.
But ... but ... but ... children are difficult, man, anyone who has CHOSEN to have children must always be given absolutely everything for free because otherwise they might be inconvenienced! Inconvenienced!I'm sorry but this is the 'entitled parent' syndrome. And yes, I had children so I do understand.
All you parents out there can attack me all you like.
But ... but ... but ... children are difficult, man, anyone who has CHOSEN to have children must always be given absolutely everything for free because otherwise they might be inconvenienced! Inconvenienced!
How can you even entertain the idea that a person who has chosen to increase the human population of the world be inconvenienced?! You monster!
I certainly didn't say anything about getting stuff for free. In fact the child endowment payment disappeared not long after child one, and there was no childcare assistance at all so when I (for financial reasons) had to go back to work a fair chunk of my wage went on creche fees for 2. Certainly no money over for holidays for quite a few years. I think that parents possibly have some (note that word) things easier than we did in the 70s/80s.Could you please point me in the direction of getting everything for free, it'd really help with the budget?![]()
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I certainly didn't say anything about getting stuff for free. In fact the child endowment payment disappeared not long after child one, and there was no childcare assistance at all so when I (for financial reasons) had to go back to work a fair chunk of my wage went on creche fees for 2. Certainly no money over for holidays for quite a few years. I think that parents possibly have some (note that word) things easier than we did in the 70s/80s.
A few weeks ago I was having a robust debate with someone (who has no children of their own) about what it's like to be a parent these days in the age of surveillance. I was trying to explain that it doesn't matter what your own opinion is about the best ways of raising your kids is, if it goes outside what society deems is normal you're potentially in for a bad time, even if legally you're in the right.
I've lost count of the number of times I've been out in public with my kids and I've been wondering who is judging me, who is ready with the phone if one of the kids has a melt down and I don't deal with it in the way they would expect. I've had to defend my actions to complete strangers who felt they should have an opinion lest they call security on me.
Parenting in this day and age is challenge beyond what I think our own parents had to deal with. Whilst there has always been busy bodies who feel that they should have opinions about other people's lives, the issue with these days is that they are now all armed with camera phones, ready to record and take out of context anything that happens.
/Rant
I have my view but YMMV obviously.A comment I recently made on another post addresses my thoughts on the harder now equation:
The fact that we're even discussing this about some strangers, were everyone is having their opinion on if they were right or wrong, watching branch into thoughts on parenting itself, kinda proves my point.
Just had dinner and near us was a table with 8 kids under 6 I would guess.
God, or whatever, bless their parents because I couldn't do it.
And God bless chicken nuggets.