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Another angle is kids who have been given a tablet as a pacifier. Their parents are often on autopilot, having checked out months or years earlier. On topic (a
by sowbug 7mo ago
Another angle is kids who have been given a tablet as a pacifier. Their parents are often on autopilot, having checked out months or years earlier.
On topic (and discussed already on HN): https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu
- pstuart 7mo agoI'm not a fan of the tablet as a pacifier approach but it's not my business. What is my business is when the parents do so without providing a way for the child to indulge without annoying everybody else. I consider that to be absolutely unacceptable in that if they can afford a tablet they can afford cheap headphones.
- sowbug 7mo agoYes, only the open-air noise-making kind (per the article topic). Don't care what the rectangle is as long as we can't hear it.
- mothballed 7mo agoWhen young children are on airplanes you cheat in whatever way you can.
- jghn 7mo agoPerhaps people can cheat while still giving them headphones or turning devices on silent mode?
- etrautmann 7mo agoI have a three year old and would still never subject others to tablet noise. Yes they’re the literal worst to fly with but don’t export your misery to others.
- zeroonetwothree 7mo ago[flagged]
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- Aurornis 7mo agoI’ve brought a tablet on airplanes to watch movies with kids on long flights, but we bring headphones. Flights are the only time we do this. There is nothing about a tablet or a flight that requires letting them blast audio at full volume. It’s not even a good experience.
- sowbug 7mo agoThat's rather defeatist. Surely you believe there are other options. We traveled with a single Nexus 7 and one pair of headphones shared by three kids. Having to take turns taught them to be OK with having entertainment, being a spectator, or being bored. And they understood that if we ever heard it, they'd all have to be bored for a while.
- password4321 7mo agodiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142