Family Travel: Drugging Our Kids - Video Travel Alert

Tags:: Drugs, Kids, Flying, Benadryl, Children, Terrorism, Flight, Passengers, Danger

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Drugging kids on flights is a form of terrorism, say some.
This Travel Video Alert, part of the Travel Video PostCard series,says Family travel is not what family travel used to be. Parents on airplanes, on flights, on vacations traveling with kids are drugging their kids, drugging children usually with Benadryl to keep them quiet during a flight.
Terrorism? Probably not.
Drugs and kids, kids and drugs do not mix. And Benadryl? Benadryl may be a harmless sedative but drugs and kids on planes? Parents are outraged that Benadryl would be given to children to calm them on a family trip, a family vacation. Benadryl may be more or less harmless, but if we freely give kids Benadryl, what drug is next. Should kids fly first class? Should families be in the back of the plane?
Why do we have to calm kids with or any drugs? Family travel and taking your kids on a vacation should mean having well behaved children. Or at least kids who can be entertained by books, DVD, hugs and other creative ways to fly calmly with kids. Benadryl? Drugging kids? There has to be a better way than drugs and Benadryl.
Even pediatricians are not taking a stand. They say giving drugs to kids is up to parents.
Really?
Should parents use drugs on kids? Sleep aids?
Some airline passengers say kids should not fly at all because they are too much trouble. Not toilet trained.