‘Entitled Parents Raise Entitled Children’: Mom lets her loud, disruptive son run wild on a flight, then lashes out when a stranger finally tells him to stop

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Aug 7, 2026 6:30 PM EDT

A flight from Toronto to Calgary turned into a public lesson in what happens when a parent lets a child run the show and then acts shocked that everyone else notices

Parents like that always seem to think rules are for the rest of humanity. The kid is kicking seats, screaming, and launching toys into the void, and the adult response is basically a sleepy little shrug dressed up as guidance. That's not parenting; that's just being a human cushion with a wallet.

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    When Entitled Parents Raise Entitled Children

    Young child sits by an airplane window with his hands covering his ears
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    I just flew from Toronto to Calgary earlier today (5-hour flight). When I got to my seat, I discovered I
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    would be sitting beside a quiet elderly lady, and in front of a restless noisy kid about 4-years-
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    old. Great. I don't like sitting in front of kids, but I know flights are boring so I expect them to get occasionally noisy. I can tolerate it.
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    Unfortunately, the kid's mom was sat beside him and had a very hands-off/avoidant approach to
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    parenting. The kid spent the first half of the flight screaming, kicking both seats in front of him,
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    Young boy sits by an airplane window, looking out at the sky.
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    Young boy looking out of an airplane window,

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    shaking the seats, and throwing his toys between the seat gaps in front of him.
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    The mom, meanwhile, was either ignoring her child's behaviour or doing that thing parents do
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    when they try to assign authority to imaginary bad guys. "Logan, put your seat belt on or the pilot will come yell at us." "Logan, don't
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    throw your food or the mean flight attendant will come take it away." "Logan, quiet down or someone else on the plane will get very angry."
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    Well, she was correct about one of those empty threats. After 3 hours of this kid beating the sh out of our seats, the small old lady
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    beside me (who was silent thus far) turned around and said, "Logan, please stop doing that. You are bothering me."
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    Logan, having been disciplined for the first time in his life, immediately shut up and sat down. That was the good news.
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    The bad news is, the mom turned out to be more of a child than her 4-year-old son. For the ENTIRE REMAINING TWO HOURS OF THE FLIGHT, she encouraged her son
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    to kick our seats, encouraged her son to scream as loud as he can, ranted aloud about "white privilege" (the old lady was white
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    and the family was South Asian), and tried to teach her son as many swear words as possible (??? bizarre). Thankfully, Logan had clearly never listened to his mom
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    The funniest part during all of this was the kid's dad, who was sitting across the aisle, had no idea what was going on but could hear his
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    son screaming like a banshee. So he kept trying to pass his wife snacks and toys to placate the kid, but because she was so bothered
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    about her parenting being exposed, she snapped at her husband loud enough for everyone to turn around and stare at her. Just an all-around disaster of a woman.
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    When the plane finally landed, she immediately bombarded her son with praise. "OOOOOOOH YOU'RE SUCH A GOOD BOY LOGAN, YOU
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    WERE SOOOOOOO GUUUUUUUD THE WHOOOOOLE FLIGHT," clearly just trying to antagonise
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    the people around her. Everyone ignored her and she humiliated herself.
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    If by grace of higher power the entitled mom sees this: You are doing your liddle pwince zero favours by refusing to parent him.
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    One day real life will hit your son in a form a lot less pleasant than a little old lady on an airplane. And you're only embarrassing yourself
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    by modeling your clown behaviour to your kid like you did. You're a parent, and it's time to grow up.
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  • The funniest part is how these people always reach for fake authority instead of actual authority. “The pilot will be mad.” “The flight attendant will take it away.” “Someone will get angry.” Sure. And maybe a raccoon in first class will issue a warning next. Kids are not stupid. They know the difference between a real boundary and a theatrical threat that evaporates the second it gets inconvenient.

    Then, when a stranger finally says the obvious thing, the whole spell breaks. One calm person does what the parent refused to do for hours, and suddenly the child can stop. Imagine that. A miracle powered by basic manners. The crowd hears it. The parent hears it. The ego gets bruised.

    And that’s when the performance starts. More noise, more swearing, more self-righteous nonsense, like making a scene somehow proves a point. It never does. It just turns the plane into a floating reminder that some adults are basically toddlers with better credit scores.
     

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