Of the four lap-children on that plane ... explaining she and her husband already have their hands full traveling with three ...

She often keeps her hand on them as a precaution ... Caroline Gutman for The New York Times Holding your small child on your lap has been acceptable in air travel for decades.

In America, it is proper to keep the unused hand in one’s lap; in Europe, it is rested on the table. In neither part of the ...

My children are constantly bucking my request ... In America, it is proper to keep the unused hand in one’s lap; in Europe, it is rested on the table. In neither part of the world is it polite ...

Zaidi-Rashid, 34, then a doctoral student, was flying from Washington to Doha, Qatar, with her mother and two children when their airplane encountered severe turbulence. Her other child ...