Keep in mind that this is an overnight flight . . . . . This couple was allowing their approximately 3 year old boy to run up and down the aisle and simply yell whenever he felt like it. It was bad. In fact, it was bad enough that it kept my husband (with his noise cancelling headphones and everything) from sleeping. About 5 hours into the 10 hour flight - so about 3:00 am - he got up and spoke with the flight attendant. The gentleman said he had never seen a kid that out of control in the 25 years he had been a FA. He spoke with the mother and asked if there was some way she could get the child to sleep or at least calm down. Her response? "Well I do have a medicine from the doctor that is supposed to help him sleep on this flight." Really? The FA actually said "and you haven't given it to him yet?" She went back to her seat (which she had changed after take off to be behind us, yay) and gave the boy his meds. He slept for about 4 hours. This means that about 1 hour left he started kicking my husband's seat. Constantly. Like every other second until Jack turned around and glared. Nothing changed. He turned around and said "excuse me" and the mom did nothing. He finally got really ticked and turned around again and said "you need to make him stop kicking my seat or I will" to which she said - and I am not kidding or exaggerating - "He is little." She then turned to her kid and said "Go ahead and kick his seat and scream as loud as you want." He stood up in his seat and screamed out loud until the seat belt sign went on then he kicked the seat until we landed.

These things tend to happen to my husband. Just unlucky, I guess. I almost never seen any children who are not well behaved though I suppose I would probably not notice if they weren't unless they were extremely bad.