This Woman Had The Perfect Response For When A Kid Had A Tantrum On Her Plane

No matter how good a mother you are, there will come a time when your little bundle of joy has a very public meltdown. There will be screaming, crying, and struggling. It will be noisy and it will show no signs of stopping anytime soon.

The very best a mom can hope for in this situation is that among the faces of judgment and raised eyebrows, there will be another mom, one who has been through it herself, and one who offers a smile and a helping hand. Someone like Kesha Bernard.

Bernard, a photographer from Savannah, Georgia, was recently on a plane seated a few rows ahead of a mom traveling with three kids, the youngest of which was in the midst of a full-blown tantrum.

The flight was delayed on the tarmac, and the youngest child, a baby, had had enough.

Who could blame the baby? Babies cry — that's just life. Most adults have a hard time when their flight is delayed too.

Bernard could see the mom becoming flustered and she could also see that no one seated close to her was stepping in to help.

It's almost as if everyone else on the plane had better things to do, yet they were also waiting for the plane to take off.

Being a mother herself, although not traveling with her kids that day, Bernard couldn’t sit there and let another mother struggle. So she stepped in.

She did what every good person should do — help someone when they need it.

Bernard snapped a picture of herself on the airplane, cradling the stranger’s baby in her lap, and posted it on Facebook. 

She explained the whole situation from start to finish, and it was worth the read.

She could not have predicted the nerve it would hit nor that it would be shared over 100,000 times.

The post also has over 225,000 reactions and over 200 comments.

“Here I am on vacation away from my kids (who I absolutely love to death but sometimes you need a break from toddlers) and I’m flying with an infant on my lap,” she wrote in the post.

 “Why? Because I’m a decent human being.”

“Anyway, I sit down and there’s some weight issue with the plane that needs to be checked out. So everyone is sitting in this full, packed plane," she continued.

"And a baby starts crying (oh God forbid, right?)…Everyone around me starts huffing and puffing and mumbling.”

Isn't it funny how if someone's own baby cries, it's okay, but as soon as someone else's baby cries, the mother gets looked down on?

"Then…I hear two kids crying (holy s!#$ — right?) this lady has her toddler having a full-blown meltdown over her seatbelt being on."

"(Toddlers are dramatic. That’s nothing new.)”

“I hear a woman complaining to this mother (that’s alone with two crying kids) that her child needs to stop kicking her seat…"

"Apparently the lady reached behind her and grabbed the child’s leg (aka 'oh h*ll no')”

“While this is happening the freaking flight attendant is just standing there… listening. Not even doing anything.”

I guess it's technically not the flight attendant's job to react, but you hear of nice flight attendants stepping in to help all of the time.

"And the older men beside me make remarks like, 'Obviously her way of discipline isn’t working,' so I reply with, 'she’s probably afraid to do anything… you can’t do anything anymore,' and they stopped talking.”

“SO… being a decent human being, I couldn’t take letting this mother drown back there… (and let me tell you she was being so freaking calm, you guys… like I would have already been crying, but she was doing so good)."

"I get up out of my seat, go a few rows back, and go ask her if she needs help (apparently that's so hard to do).”

It's hard for me to fathom how on a plane full of capable passengers, only onehad the guts to show some compassion.

The grateful mom handed Bernard her baby.

At that moment, passengers were instructed to return to their seats for take-off. So Bernard did just that — taking the baby with her. 

Warm and snug on Bernard's lap, the baby stopped crying and promptly fell asleep.

Anyone could have snuggled this baby — it's not that hard! And I'm sure most people would rather have a sleeping baby on their lap than a crying baby on someone else's.

"Please be kind," Bernard wrote in her Facebook post. "Please be considerate. Help one another…it makes everything easier. I promise, you won't die."

These words are incredibly applicable in other situations too, and I hope they resonate with people.

Kesha has since been receiving some very kind and heartfelt comments from other women, thanking her for sharing her story.

This person is right when they say it costs absolutely nothing to be a good human being.

Some of the women who have read her story have even begun sharing their own.

Anyone who's a mom has been in this position at one point or another and it's incredible to see other moms coming together to support each other.

I hope that comments like these have reassured Kesha that she did the right thing.

I also hope that they've inspired other women (and men) to do what Kesha did if they ever find themselves in a similar situation. 

On behalf of every mom who has ever experienced a child of theirs having a full-blown tantrum in a crowded and confined space: Kesha, we thank you.