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Too pricey. Try Target, and kids dont pull their totes for long, they just get tired or bored with it and you're left with two to pull along.

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Please Oh Lord Help me avoid tiny travelers dragging suitcases behind them.
Listen folks. Get your kid a backpack...if you feel the need to make him carry his own stuff.
For those of us that travel often,it is THE MOST IRRITATING thing to be behind a string of tots weilding wheeled cases. These kids have no co ordination, no focus on where they should be going or what they should be doing. The parents look like they are trying to heard cats.
The cases usually have crappy wheels and the kid ends up dragging the thing sideways or they are stopping every two feet to upright it.
Have mercy for people who are not on leisure time. Have mercy for people that have to make their plane on time and need to get somewhere ,that they need to be, to keep their job. If you are toting a string of suitcase dragging toddlers...please please please choose off times to travel. Give your kid a packpack instead of a suitcase. Remove the backpacks and shoes long before you get to the security scanner and be ready to slap all of your shoes,snaps,belts, tweekers, squeakers, dollies, teddy bears on the converyor belt...and do this quickly. A crowded airport and a busy security check point is no time to teach Johnny how to dress or undress. ABC songs are for the playground. Be quiet. Be seen not heard. Be quick.
And dont act shocked when everyone behind you in a line...paralyzed by your disorganized mob....are not smiling and applauding your broods uncoordinated moves and time sapping
antics.
Believe me..at that point NO ONE thinks you or your kiddies are cute. Personally, I am usually thinking about how nice it would be to take your kid's suitcase and sling it as far over the rail as it would go.
Do everyone a favor. Pack one travel bag for all your brood .....and you carry it ....if you want them to have these things so very badly.
Make sure your kid can remove and put on his or her own shoes. Dont use this time to teach jack and jill how to retie their shoes...get slip on shoes for the trip. Pack dolls and bears in your bag until on the plane..then hand them out along with all the other sticky gooey treats your kids will starve without for the whole 4 hour trip!
And get them in their seat quickly. You can buckle them up after the long line of waiting passengers,you have bottlenecked, have passed your group.

And remember....by the time the plane takes off...the passengers on that flight are already not loving your kids. So...keep them from kicking the seat in front of them....cause if your kid is kicking my seat I will tell your kid to cut the crap. If you child decides he or she wants to peek over the seat at me say gobbly goo things to me...dont expect me to encourage him./her. In fact,dont expect me to give the intrusive little thing any attention at all..unless I tell them to turn around and "SSHHH!. I dont intend to entertain your children for you.
I use to think kids were cute. But after being smeared with kiddies boogers, slobbers, sticky fingers, and cracker crumbs I have decided that I dont like being around them. I want to arrive at my destination CLEAN, PREPARED, and ON TIME.
If you have so many kids you can manage them..then take along a relative to help you. Heck...take along two or three if it will help move you all along.
Just remember...all of us are not standing behind your brood oooohhhhing and aaaahhhhing at the beauty of your children.We are thinking "What the heck was that person thinking!" followed by"AHHHH! COME ON! Get the line moving!"
Flying off hours...when kids sleep most of the trip and travel lines are shorter ,might be your answer. Or taking extra help. But please please dont think it's cute for each kid to be dragging a suitcase that they cant handle, cant get through security, and cant get shoes off and their dolls, blankies nad teddy bears checked through security. IT IS NOT CUTE! And we are not interested in being delayed as you impart lesson in shoe tying and knowledge of the sounds animal makes to each fleeing squirt. Organize yourselves, move quickly or rent a van and drive. An airport is a busy busy place. It is not the place to dawdle, be disorganized or show how hopelessly ignorant and inconsiderate you and your brood can behave.
Get in...get on.... get gone. Be prepared to do that and you will have earned the ooohhhhs and aaahhhs of all the airport patrons and staff.
Your kids are your responsibility. Dont look to others to understand, love, like, entertain, even give a crap about them.
And always remember....their are a lot of dangerous people out in society. A person being nice to your child might not being nice cause they like your kid. They may have totally negative motives. So..dont shove your kids on others benevolent behavior so quickly...

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Ugh! What an ugly suitcase. And I do agree WAY TOO much money for something they'll grow out of really quick.

D- LIGHTEN UP! Geez, I know its frustrating when your trying to get from point A to point B in a timly manner (especially if its your job) but you dont have to be such a Bitter Betty about it. You must not have children, sometimes its impossible to avoid having to travel with a child.
I am a VERY impatient person but I do understand that some things are just out of our hands and you have to live with it. Its not going to change just because YOU wake up on the wrong side of the bed EVERY morning, apparently.

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I TOTALLY AGREE WITH LADYG8R....D., U ARE AN ASS AND LORD HELP YOUR POOR CHILDREN IF YOU DO EVER REPRODUCE. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF. JUST REMEMBER, AT ONE TIME, YOU WERE ONE OF THOSE CHILDREN WITH NO COORDINATION OR FOCUS!!

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A: Well even though "D" is rude I do understand where he/she is coming from.
I traveled a lot for my job at one time and lord it was annoying to have a screaming kid next to you or even on the plane period. I got so I just walked to my next gate and if someone's child happened to cross my path I would simply say "Either hold your parents hand or learn to pay attention" this is why my kids wore a harness so they didn't get away from me. Saved their life plenty of times too! I always travel with ear plugs. B: In this economy if you pay $94 for a stupid suite case for a kid to drag all over Gods green acre then you need your head examined !!! Go to Once Upon a Child, Goodwill or a garage sale !!

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