I WAS on a night flight from Hong Kong to Singapore Aug 27, and encountered a nightmare - a crying baby.

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Mr.Chua you are equally selfish too. I can emphatise how the parents felt about such an embarassing situation. Some babies simply wail throughout the flight. Some years ago, I was faced with such a nightmare all the way from LA to S'pore.

Please do not write such a letter as it reflects badly on you. Can we be more tolerant?

Some babies when they are brought into unfamilair enviroment,especially a noisy one likethe aircraft cabin. Pacifying the baby does not always work. They also cry because of ear pain caused by difference in air pressure. The airline is a public transport. like buses and trains and Mr.Chua is unreasonbly selfish to only think of his comfort. He should charter his own flight.

Be sensible guys.

No solution to think of.

Simple.

Get the issue paper stuff in your ears.

Turn on the headphone louder lor.

Ask the cabin crew for some stronger stuff. Stuff the ear with it or drink drunk lor.

Adults go senseless lor to the crying is not a difficult solution isn't it?

I can identify and sympathize with Mr. Chua. While I fully agree that we should be tolerant as babies can only express themselves through crying, there are indeed some parents who simply does not take the efforts at all to pacify their crying babies.

I was once on a flight where the 2 toddlers (probably about 2-3 years old) sitting behind me keep kicking the back of my seats with their legs, which cause great discomforts to me throughout the initial trip.

When I politely asked the mother to restrain her kids, she simply ignored and even say kids are kids...should I be also tolerant towards such parents?

The good thing was a stewardess who had witnessed the incident, helped me to find another seat, and she told me that there are just too many such incidents involving inconsiderate parents, and she can only help those affected to find other empty seats.

Not all get into the wrong seat and at the wrong time with yelling and kicking kids and crying babies lor.

Be lucky guys. Stay lucky always.

There is a time and place for everything for one to always have the knack to be lucky. Have GP and AP make alot of difference to one's luck when one go on living, isn't it? Life is a journey. Flying makes it go faster.

Clearly, Mr. Chua is not a parent. Otherwise, he would not write such an insensitive, self-centered and ignorant post.

Which parent enjoys it when his/her baby cries? Which parent would not be sensitive to the discomfort other people feel, especially in a cramped environment like an aircraft? And sometimes it is not easy to pacify babies (even otherwise quieter ones) in certain situations, and frankly it is not within our control even if we try our best.

Perhaps it is difficult for non-parents to understand this.

As CarCarCar suggested, Mr. Chua could stuff wet tissue paper in his ears (dry ones allow sound to pass through easily), or stuff his head into the toilet bowl and flush (the resultant water in ear effect can help block some noise).

I shall use wet ones more. Thanks.

#5 {The good thing was a stewardess who had witnessed the incident, helped me to find another seat....}

Where did the stewardess put you? In the cargo compartment?

Chua Kheng Yeow,
altho i understand crying can be discomforting... while u want to rest in the flight..
but, people have children who need to move places... and babies will cry at the high altitude or at the uncomfortness of airplaces...

what to do?
you want to blame parent?
its really tiring and worrying for the parent, whos very tired, carrying the baby, 24/7 checking if the bay is ok feeding changing clothes.. etc

if you are a parent u know how difficult and tiring it is..

the issue here is this, we do need to tolerate, tolerate for who?
for singapore, for our PM Lee,
We need more babies, if everyone has this attitude, no one wants to have kids as it will cause an inconvenience..

a person with kids should not be treated like a 2nd class citizen where u want to ban the parent or the child..

think long term, learn to accept the sound of babies, if you cant stand the sound how u gonna handle when you have your own kids?

or are you not planning to have any because u dont want to cause inconvenience to others?