The current trend in advice for parents flying with a baby or a toddler is to apologize for existing. Parents are bribing other adults on the airplane with free drinks, earplugs and candy to compensate for being there. There are well-documented horror stories wherein grown-ups slap other people’s children during a flight, and parents are booted off flights for perceived travesties such as tantrums, and disagreeing, even when complying, with flight attendants. These days, flying brings out the primal eat-or-be-eaten, every-man-for-himself in us all.Why are tensions running so high? Why has flying with babies gotten to this sorry state? People … Continue reading 8 things you need to know before flying with a baby or toddler