Airline passenger sparks outrage after detailing shocking demand made by his ‘privileged’ mother during two-hour flight

A plane passenger has sparked outrage after revealing that another mother demanded he take her daughter’s iPad away while they were travelling because her own daughter had been banned from using technology.

The anonymous woman took to Reddit to describe her recent travel experience where she had clashes with another parent.

In a thread titled Am I the idiot?She said another mother on board her flight kept “giving her dirty looks” after she distracted her daughter with an iPad.

The anonymous Reddit user explained that she and her three-year-old daughter were sitting across from a family who had a son who appeared to be around the same age.

When the boy saw the woman’s daughter playing with an iPad, he burst into tears, prompting the other family to demand the mother put the technological product away.

The woman then took to the discussion forum to question whether she was wrong to refuse to remove the distraction from her daughter.

The post was titled: “Am I an idiot for not taking my daughter’s iPad away?”

In the thread, she explained that the other mother became enraged when she continued to allow her son to use the technology product.

She wrote: ‘I was on a flight with my three-year-old daughter and there was a family sitting in front of us with a child who looked to be around the same age. The child noticed my daughter’s iPad and tried to reach for it and started crying when the mother told him not to.’

The mother recalled that she tried to block out the child’s cries by putting on headphones.

However, the other woman was not willing to let the situation go and made a shocking request to the other mom.

‘My daughter and I put our headphones on and just kept quiet. After a while, the woman called me out and said that they didn’t allow her son to use his iPad on vacation and would my daughter keep hers. I said sorry, but no.

“The child cried for almost the entire flight, which lasted about two hours. The parents looked at me with dirty eyes and I ignored them. Am I the idiot?”

People on the web flooded the comments section and rushed to her defense while criticizing the other family for their outrageous request.

One person said: “No, moron. If they don’t want their son using a tablet over the holidays, they need to be prepared for crises like this while he develops the ability to understand that other people will have different rules and experiences than he does.”

“I feel sorry for them, I know how difficult it is to travel with a cranky toddler, but it’s not a reasonable request for a stranger.”

Another user added: ‘NTA. The only time I DON’T hate seeing a child wearing headphones and staring at a glowing rectangle is on a plane. You were prepared, you had a calm, happy child who wasn’t bothering the other passengers. You did everything right.

‘If the other child was unhappy, it was the fault of his parents, who were not prepared.

‘I know it sounds crazy, but there was a time, before the age of digital babysitters, when parents would hand their kids a new coloring book and crayons and expect them to sit quietly in their seat with their seat belts buckled up and leave everyone else alone.

“You did a good job. Don’t doubt your choice. Their mistakes are not your responsibility.”

Someone else wrote: ‘If you’re ever going to give a kid an iPad, isn’t an airplane the best place to do it?

“As a parent, you are responsible for keeping your own child entertained on the plane. They failed, not you. Not that jerk.”

“He’s not the asshole, but the other parent is. Just because your son isn’t allowed to use his iPad on vacation doesn’t mean you have to take it away from your daughter. The sense of entitlement is strong in this case,” one user commented.