Mum in shock as stranger reminds her young daughter to ‘be quiet on plane' while checking in
But her reaction has divided opinions online, with many people agreeing strangers should not be 'parenting' someone else's child — while others said misbehaving children can be a real nightmare on a flight.
Emma Darrouzet was flying from Brisbane to Port Douglas with her daughter on a family holiday.
'As I was standing to check my bag in, a lady tapped my three-year-old daughter on the shoulder and said 'Hello, I hope you know you need to be quiet on the plane',' Emma said on TikTok.
Emma said she turned around to the woman and said: 'What?!'
In video footage filmed on the plane, Emma asks her daughter: 'Did that lady tell you to be quiet?'
'You say 'silly lady',' Emma then told her.
Looking at the camera, the mother and daughter then repeat the words 'silly lady' together.
On Tuesday, Sunrise reporter Georgia Costi said the post 'has a whopping 2,500 comments already'.
'As you can imagine, they're extremely divided,' Costi said.
'Half of the people say of course you can't talk to someone else's kid especially before they got on the flight.
'However, there is a lot of support for the random lady.'
Costi then did a vox pop, asking passers-by for their opinion — with mixed reaction.
'I was on a flight from Switzerland to Amsterdam, and I had kids behind me kicking my seat,' one man said.
'(I gave) a few dirty looks to the parents, then I was like 'hey mate, come on, this is too much'.'
Another person said if they were being annoyed by a child 'I'd say to the mother 'can you please tell your child to stop kicking' or maybe pour a drink over its head'.
A woman remarked of the stranger involved: 'I would say she's had a lot of bad flights in the past with a lot of screaming kids and things, so she's probably trying to pre-empt it, so she can enjoy her flight.'
Yet another woman said: 'I think it's up to the parents, if you can't deal with that then maybe you shouldn't be on the flight.'
And another person commented: 'You always see those kids crying and you feel sorry for their parents, you just wish the kid would stop crying.'
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