{"id":753702,"date":"2026-06-22T21:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753702\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:48:18","slug":"grow-up-man-berated-by-plane-passengers-after-pleading-with-screaming-kids-to-stop-kicking-his-seat-during-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753702\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Grow up\u2019: Man berated by plane passengers after pleading with screaming kids to stop kicking his seat during flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man was criticised by plane passengers after asking two screaming children to “stop kicking the seat” during an economy flight.<\/p>\n

In a viral video circulating on social media, the American man is sitting in the middle seat in the row in front of the children.<\/p>\n

The youngsters, who appear to be aged under three, can be heard screaming while rolling around in their seats and kicking the chairs in front.<\/p>\n

\"United<\/p>\n

The woman seated next to them, who is thought to be their mother, appeared flustered but did not tell the boys off for being disruptive.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, stop kicking the seat,\u201d the man turned around and fumed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re telling him to be quiet?\u201d the stressed-out mum hit back, to which the man replied: “Yes!”<\/p>\n

Another plane passenger who was sitting near the mum also got involved, declaring: “You’re on a public flight, bro. Just relax.”<\/p>\n

The situation then escalated as the American man began making loud wailing noises, seemingly in an attempt to prove a point.<\/p>\n

“Are you for real?” the dumbfounded plane passenger asked, while the children looked confused and appeared to kick the seat again.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, come on, man! Stop kicking it and quiet down,\u201d the man yelled before continuing to scream.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrow up, man,\u201d the other passenger said.<\/p>\n

People in the comments were critical of the mother, saying she should have taken “control” of her children’s behaviour and the man had every right to complain.<\/p>\n

“The mother should have told her child to stop, and if she can\u2019t control her child, then yes I agree with the man,” one person said.<\/p>\n

“I’m with the man. He paid good money for a comfortable flight and the mother should have controlled the child’s unruly behaviour,” echoed another.<\/p>\n

Others were more sympathetic with the parent, but said that she should have stepped in when the children started kicking.<\/p>\n

“Infant crying: understandable. Kid kicking a seat: absolutely not okay,” one Instagram user said.<\/p>\n

A fourth person even suggested families should be seated in a separate section of the plane to avoid confrontations such as this.<\/p>\n

“They should have separate flights for families or separate rows or sections. It is that simple. Like smokers and non-smokers,” they wrote.<\/p>\n

\"Pauline<\/p>\n

Another person attempted to defend the mum, saying that those who want a quieter flight should pay extra to sit in first class.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s called first class. If you can\u2019t afford to ride in the front, then you get to deal with the back,” they commented.<\/p>\n

One more person quipped that “even first class is not safe from ill-behaved kids”.<\/p>\n

“I had toys thrown at us in first class and the parents just sat there and did nothing,” they added.<\/p>\n

It is unclear which airline the incident occurred on or how the issue was resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was criticised by plane passengers after asking two screaming children to “stop kicking the seat” during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,22928,9161,1155,1314,3349],"class_list":["post-753702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-flight","tag-parenting","tag-plane","tag-social-media","tag-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}