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On August 26, a netizen posted a video saying: "On August 24, on a flight from Guiyang to Shanghai, two middle-aged women could not stand the crying of a one-year-old girl, so they took the little girl away from her grandmother and locked her in the plane toilet for education." Screenshots from the Internet also showed that someone posted the video of the "educating" little girl online. The original video has been deleted.

Later, Juneyao Airlines responded that there was indeed a crying child, and with the consent of the child's grandmother, two passengers took the child to the bathroom to educate him, and afterwards the child's mother also "expressed understanding for the two passengers' assistance on the plane."

This incident has sparked heated discussions on social media. Judging from the current response from the airline, the two passengers did not "forcibly" take the child away, and at least the child's grandmother was aware of it. However, for a girl who is only over one year old, even if the guardian "agrees" and "understands", this "education method" is probably still inappropriate. After all, strangers are not the child's parents, and they are "educating" the child in an intimidating way by closing the toilet. The video was later posted online, which made many people feel uncomfortable.

Another factor to consider is that this behavior happened on an airplane that places great emphasis on public safety. If a child cries in the toilet, loses control of his emotions, or has an emergency, it can easily bring uncertain risks.

A reporter asked the airline whether they could use the key to open the door if they were locked in the toilet. The customer service said, "There is currently no way to check the facilities on board, so there is no guarantee that there will be a key. If there is no key, then it must be closed and can only be opened from the inside."

This makes people feel scared. What if these "educators" have bad intentions, bad intentions, or behave inappropriately? Without the key, the outside world cannot even intervene. If unexpected situations really occur, the consequences of the incident may be unimaginable.

Therefore, for this controversial incident, the parents, the so-called "educators" and the airline company should all reflect on themselves. This almost chaotic way of education is really unacceptable.

However, this incident has brought more thoughts. How to accept children in public spaces has been an old issue that has been discussed in the public opinion field for many years. It is said that the protagonist of this incident is a one-year-old child, and it can be seen from the video that he is indeed very young. Noisy, uncontrollable, and emotionally unstable are probably unavoidable for such a young child, and are definitely not the same as the so-called "naughty child".

Over the years, children crying in public places such as airplane cabins and train compartments have repeatedly triggered intense emotional confrontations and harsh criticism of children. In this incident, the parents may have felt a huge pressure and were at a loss, and the "educators" were probably impatient and eager to "return everyone to peace", which led to the scene where the child was locked in the toilet.

Some people say that if the grandparents could think of more solutions and the passengers around them could take better actions, the incident might have gone in a different direction. But this is just a guess after all. Children this young are sometimes difficult to be comforted and keep quiet. We must admit that this is the process of human growth, so it should be a social consensus to treat noisy children with a more tolerant and considerate attitude.

Back to the incident itself, it is obviously inappropriate to lock the child in the toilet. In addition to criticizing this behavior, we must not forget to continue to create a child-friendly social atmosphere. In 2021, multiple departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Construction of Child-Friendly Cities", which mentioned that "let child-friendliness become the common concept, action, responsibility and cause of the whole society". You might as well put yourself in their shoes and think about it. If your child becomes noisy in a public place for various reasons, but you can't calm him down for a while, will you feel anxious and helpless? People have the same heart. In the final analysis, we still need to be more considerate and understanding of each other.

To truly be "child-friendly" in practice requires the efforts of everyone. How should public places better accept and tolerate young children? What else can parents, passers-by, and managers of public spaces do for children? These are all thoughts left by this incident.