When a baby’s first travel plans come into questions, parents often face tough choices.

One mother wants to travel to introduce their infant to her parents, but the father questions whether their child is really ready to take the journey.

The ensuing argument tests the couple’s ability to compromise under pressure.

Read on for the full story!

AITAH for not wanting fly to my in laws with our two year old for 12 hours?

My wife wants to fly to have her family meet our child, but I told her no way should we put our child, ourselves, and everyone else through the risk of our child — who is flying for the first time — crying and screaming the entire time.

He offers to make other concessions, but stands firm on his stance on flying.

I am fine with helping to pay for my in-laws to come to us, but yeah, no way am I going to risk putting our child through a 12-hour flight where they could very well end up crying and screaming for a large portion of it.

His wife then begins to assume the worst about his intentions.

My wife thinks I am ashamed of our child, which is not the case, but by no means do I want to put myself in a situation where, as a parent, I have to navigate a crying kid on a flying sardine can.

My wife is kind of upset and claims I am undermining her by not being willing to go and leaving it on her, or by just wanting to throw money at the problem.

AITA?

Both of these parents’ feelings are valid, but where do they go from here?

What did Reddit have to say?

Everyone has their limits — even young children.

This user has some wise words of advice for this father.

When it comes to long distance travel, every kid is different.

Some kids really are more difficult than others.

Parenting often means making tough calls without perfect solutions.

Ultimately, only they know what’s best for their family’s wellbeing.

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