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How to Feel Better About Flying With Kids

by Laurie Ulster
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Finally, a reason to celebrate the fact that kids don’t really cut their own nails:

They might be great readers, but I doubt they’re reading this many newspapers:

And they’re still too small, physically, to do this:

Whatever kind of parent you are, I know you’d stop your kids from sticking their bare feet into the row in front of you.

Missing a connection doesn’t even make a four year-old THIS mad:

I bet your kids don’t exercise in the aisles, either.

And in all the flights I’ve ever been on, I’ve never seen a kid wear the life preserver pre-emptively.

So feel better, parent travelers! You and your kids are doing just fine.

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