How To Find A Blue Travel Bag For The Kid

A Train Travel With A Cranky Kid

I was tempted to write this short story after reading a story by Moria Rees Get the kid off the plane.

My story is in no way similar but it definitely adds value to what she has written.

I was traveling to Amritsar from Delhi with a group of friends and American guests in the executive class coach.

We were having a lot of fun until three people parents and child boarded the train and also came into the same coach.

The child looked 3 years. He was very cute and we all thought it would be fun to travel with him.

In the plane often the kids were cranky during night travel but this was morning and train travel so we thought it would be fine.

To our astonishment, this kid was cranky and continued to be cranky till we reached Amritsar. He cried and cried and I wondered what would happen to his lungs by crying for 7 hours.

Why was this kid crying? No one knows.

A group of youngsters took a video and put it on social media. They were bored.

The kid wanted a blue bag.

Where to get a blue bag for him?

The parents told him that they did not have a blue bag with them.

He cried even louder. Blue Bag, Blue Bag!

The kid wanted to sit where the bags are stored above the seats on the train with the blue bag.

The people around became the audience for the kid as he protested and cried even louder.

Whose fault was it? How should it be tackled?

I only know the reactions of the people around, the kid and the parents.

I found that there were some complainers and some empathizers and some onlookers who just took videos and kept putting them on Tik Tok, Instagram and Facebook and laughing aloud.

Some People’s reaction

The first thing that some people said was it is the kid's fault. He is cranky. Please take him out of the coach so that he stops crying.

The parents obliged and stood near the entrance door, but the child kept asking for a blue bag that the parents did not understand. As per the regulations they could not stand there for long so they returned to their seats.

The empathizers reaction

“Sonu please stop crying. I will give you a blue bag”. Someone gave him a blue ball but he did not like it and threw it back at them.

The parent's reaction

I hope you won’t say it is the kid’s fault. Or is it someone asked?

The kid has traveled with us from Malaysia through different time zones and has reached India. He is a single child. Here he comes and finds families full of people to come and welcome him. He moves from the maternal to the paternal family. Every day we are traveling and his sleep is also affected.

I complimented the mother and the father and told them that I had never seen such patient and understanding parents.

The takeaways

🔷Parenting is tough and parents have to be calm when a child hits a storm in a public place.

🔷🔷It is very embarrassing when people make fun of the kid and also the parents. They just cannot fight because they know that everyone is getting disturbed because of them.

🔷🔷🔷Parents should continue to be calm. I have seen many parents fighting with others in the coach about what could they do if the child was crying. They also shout at the kid to keep quiet.

🔷🔷🔷🔷The kid is not to be blamed. He is obviously bothered about something or not well and has some pain but cannot explain why he is disturbed at that age.

To wrap up

Parents, please do not blame your child if he cries so much on a train or a plane. It may seem strange but the child is cranky for some reason and it is usually so when he travels.

Some kids are not comfortable with the movement of the train or the plane. It affects their bodies and we have to be patient with them. It is neither your fault nor his. Just be patient and calm with him.

This is not his age to be blamed rather try to understand what he wants. I think the quote below summarizes my feelings.

“Be the parent today that you want your kids to remember tomorrow.” ~Unknown

©Dr. Preeti Singh, 2022.

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