"Roger" wrote

I particularly liked the one from the woman who said she had to make
an emergency trip so stopped at the airport pharmacy, bought a bottle
of Benadril (sp?) and gave her kid a swig before getting on the plane.
Kid was nice and peaceful for the flight. :-))

I know doctors who recommend this, and do this with their own children, when
necessary. No harm is done.

Less trauma for the child, and others around the child.

I would go with the view that the behavior was learned, and enabled by how
the child was raised. It is too late, to try to change behavior for one
instance, when it is allowed all along, in earlier times.
--
Jim in NC