Another angle is kids who have been given a tablet as a pacifier. Their parents are often on autopilot, having checked out months or years earlier.

On topic (and discussed already on HN): https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu

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pstuart 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not a fan of the tablet as a pacifier approach but it's not my business. What is my business is when the parents do so without providing a way for the child to indulge without annoying everybody else. I consider that to be absolutely unacceptable in that if they can afford a tablet they can afford cheap headphones.

	▲	sowbug 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, only the open-air noise-making kind (per the article topic). Don't care what the rectangle is as long as we can't hear it.

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mothballed 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When young children are on airplanes you cheat in whatever way you can.

	▲	etrautmann 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have a three year old and would still never subject others to tablet noise. Yes they’re the literal worst to fly with but don’t export your misery to others.
	▲	jghn 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Perhaps people can cheat while still giving them headphones or turning devices on silent mode?

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zeroonetwothree 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Tell me you don’t have kids without telling me you don’t have kids

	▲	sowbug 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's rather defeatist. Surely you believe there are other options. We traveled with a single Nexus 7 and one pair of headphones shared by three kids. Having to take turns taught them to be OK with having entertainment, being a spectator, or being bored. And they understood that if we ever heard it, they'd all have to be bored for a while.
	▲	Aurornis 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I’ve brought a tablet on airplanes to watch movies with kids on long flights, but we bring headphones. Flights are the only time we do this. There is nothing about a tablet or a flight that requires letting them blast audio at full volume. It’s not even a good experience.
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