Dear Flight Attendants on United Flight from Chicago to Denver:

Thank you so much for your patience, understanding, and over-the-top friendliness and compassion toward me and my exhausted two year old. We planned our flight for Gwyneth’s nap time and she SCREAMED for the twenty minutes it took for us to get buckled in until we took off. Thank you flight attendants for very loudly acknowledging that she looked exhausted, offering her juice, holding her, walking her around the cabin, for moving my husband into our row, and for being overall kind and not making me feel like a horrible mother because she was simply overly tired. You are kind women and will surely be rewarded for your efforts.

Dear Woman in Row 33, Seat D (across the aisle):

Thank you for giving me that reassuring frown and head tilt while Gwyneth screamed. Thank you also for offering kind words after she quickly fell asleep. Thank you for telling us “All parents have been there” and for not making us feel like horrible parents for ruining your take-off. You too are very kind.

Dear Woman in Row 32, Seat C (Directly in front of us):

When the flight attendant said “Poor little girl, she is just exhausted. Overly tired” and you replied under your breath “Overly tired…bull shit!… She’s a Brat!!”, little did you know my husband was in the seat next to you . Little did you know that she would be falling asleep just seconds after take off and would not bother anyone the entire remainder of the flight. Little did you know that I also had a 3 year old on the other side of me sitting perfectly still coloring and smiling and whispering to her sister to please stop crying. Little did you know that Gwyneth is a wonderfully sweet, funny, rarely misbehaving two year old that is nothing but loving and a blessing to us. You maam are not kind. Considering you know nothing about me, my husband or our child you are rude, rude, rude. Perhaps on your next flight you will have a 2 year old who does not sleep, screams, and kicks the back of your seat the entire flight? I’m not wishing that on you, I’m just saying perhaps?

Besides, of my two girls this isn’t even the one is who is bratty. She’s actually my easy kid! If you’re going to be rude, you should at least be accurate…I’m just saying…