The Millennial mom flies business class with her kids, she thinks they belong

I am a first generation American. Both my parents are Jamaican. Because of this, I have had a passport since I was young because I was always going back and forth to Jamaica.

Even though I didn’t travel abroad very much as a kid, other than Jamaica, I have a lot of family all over the United States, so we would go on tons of road trips.

My husband and I met in college at the University of Florida. We love to travel and have been traveling together since we started dating.

When I had kids, everyone said, “Oh, you’ll never be able to travel again now that you have kids.”

And we were like, “Have you met us?” This is the lifestyle that we, as husband and wife, have created. We wanted to continue this lifestyle whether we had children or not.

That’s what I did. Our oldest daughter took her first domestic flight at six weeks, and before she was two we had gone to Jamaica, Italy and Greece.

When I had my second daughter, I went on maternity leave because I was working in corporate America at the time. I said, “Twelve weeks when I don’t have to ask anyone for vacation days? I should probably do something.” We went to Colombia when she was 10 weeks old.

Since then, they have been to over 35 countries and six continents.

Children belong in business class like any other passenger who paid to be there

We only flew business class when we have points to fly business class.

Fortunately, I will say that my children, especially at this age, are perfectly fine. People are always complimenting us, like, “Oh my God, they were so good at flying. I didn’t even realize there were children here.”

Babies sometimes cry on airplanes. I’ve certainly been on airplanes where babies cry. I put on my headphones.

But children know how to behave. Babies aren’t like these weird things that automatically cry.

There are people of all ages who do things on airplanes that will annoy us.

There are adults on airplanes who are drunk or causing trouble.

I was actually on a flight when adults were fighting. These were not young. There were two couples in their 70s fighting, yelling and screaming at each other. They were kicked off the plane.

The other day, an adult sitting behind me put his bare foot in the space between my seat. I was like, “Why is your leg there? How can you think that is appropriate?”

Often, however, it is more comfortable for families to be in business class. You will probably have children who make less noise because it is more comfortable for them.

To think that adults own a business class is not correct. It’s public transport.

If you don’t want to be around kids, get your own plane.