Fire Child + TSA
Oh so little time left between now and airline/family/airline doom. I'll be so happy once this stupid trip is over.
Fire Child is starting to ask about the airplane that we'll be going on. I went through the whole process with him earlier today, including waistband search. it's so difficult to try to figure out how to approach *why* we're being searched. I don't want to bring up bombs and a) scare or worry him or b) give him yet another thing to fixate on in an unhealthy manner, like him constantly telling us, when he's angry, that he wants to break us or (occasionally) kill us [gotta love those crazy 3yo tantrums]. One more thing the gravity of which he has no clue.
I've been telling him that we're being searched so that the security people know that we're not bringing anything on the airplane that shouldn't be there or is unsafe. I'm purposefully leaving it very nebulous.
And if any TSA agent calls the search a "game" to my son, I will correct that mistake right away. Security is no game. Luring my son into touchy-feely with a stranger who "wants to play a game" = OH HELL NO.
And what's this I keep hearing about getting an additional search AFTER the flight? Is this correct?
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Fire Child is starting to ask about the airplane that we'll be going on. I went through the whole process with him earlier today, including waistband search. it's so difficult to try to figure out how to approach *why* we're being searched. I don't want to bring up bombs and a) scare or worry him or b) give him yet another thing to fixate on in an unhealthy manner, like him constantly telling us, when he's angry, that he wants to break us or (occasionally) kill us [gotta love those crazy 3yo tantrums]. One more thing the gravity of which he has no clue.
I've been telling him that we're being searched so that the security people know that we're not bringing anything on the airplane that shouldn't be there or is unsafe. I'm purposefully leaving it very nebulous.
And if any TSA agent calls the search a "game" to my son, I will correct that mistake right away. Security is no game. Luring my son into touchy-feely with a stranger who "wants to play a game" = OH HELL NO.
And what's this I keep hearing about getting an additional search AFTER the flight? Is this correct?
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