Passenger yells at mother after her 4-year-old daughter kicked her seat for the entire flight: 'Please get your kid to stop kicking the chair, I can’t take this anymore!'

She has every right to be upset, but should she have confronted the mother directly? 

A parent can only do so much to soothe their crying baby on an airplane. I know that a lot of people love to complain about how much they hate babies on airplanes, but their presence is something you just have to accept. They are unable to regulate their emotions the way a 5-year-old can, and you can't expect them to behave like an older child. All you can do is put on your soundproof headphones and turn up the music. Parents shouldn't have to endlessly apologize for their baby crying, which is completely out of their control. 

Parents have much more control over their older children and can expect more from them when they're flying. They might not be perfectly behaved little angels all the time, but you can tell them to speak quietly and refrain from kicking the seat in front of them. They might not always do it, but they're better at listening to instructions than a newborn baby! 

Good parents are vigilant on flights, correcting any disruptive behavior, no matter their kids' age. If their toddler keeps kicking the seat in front of her, they will do anything and everything they can to stop her, because they know that it's driving the person sitting in front of her crazy. Anything less than that is bad parenting: you don't get to throw in the towel when your kid is driving everyone bananas in an enclosed space. The mom in this story thought otherwise, but the passenger in front of her daughter gave her a piece of her mind.