A flight attendant taught me this mommy hack for traveling with my baby — but trolls say it's ‘stupid' and ‘unsafe'

Yahoo

19-05-2025

Shoe gotta be kidding, mom.
Parents traveling with small children, especially at 30,000 feet in the air, may often find themselves in sticky situations.
But this mother's adhesive hack for keeping track of her baby's footwear has frequent flyers flying off the handle.
'Things I learned from my flight attendant sister,' Tsagana, a married mama of two, wrote in the closed-caption of her ill-received tip clip — which has racked up nearly 29 million TikTok views from ticked off audiences.
While aboard an aircraft with a little girl on her lap, the lifestyle influencer placed adhesive strips on the bottoms of the tike's Nikes before affixing the sneakers to the back of the seat in front of them.
'This way, your baby's shoes will always be visible,' Tsagana explained in the caption of the problematic post. 'My sister says that after every flight, they find at least two to three baby shoes left behind.'
And while this head-in-the-clouds mommy seems to believe her sticky trick goes above and beyond, haters of her hack feel it's just plane tacky.
'Omg.. that is the worst idea … not being very kind to the person in front of you,' noted a naysaying commenter.
'That is the most annoying thing you can do,' a separate critic carped.
'The way I'd recline SO fast,' added a no-nonsense tripper.
'That's the silliest thing I've seen. Smelly shoes your whole flight, plus they will go on your lap when the table goes down … so uncomfortable and impractical,' another ranted. 'Most likely not safe for emergency exit either.'
'Or take the shoes off and place them in the bag — save the person in front of you the irritation and adhesive strips,' an equally unimpressed onlooker spat.
Other cabin crew members even chimed in to pooh-pooh the shoe stunt.
'Flight attendant here. Never saw this, never want to see this,' said an air hostess.
'Giving extra work to the staff by removing the sticky thing, not nice at all,' wrote another.
'Unsafe for baby,' a concerned whistleblower warned. 'Turbulence is real!'
Tsagana's skyway stunt isn't the only one ruffling a few feathers.
Natália Figueroa, a beauty trendsetter and new mom, recently caught a cyber spanking after placing her infant in a makeshift hammock during a flight from Brazil to Miami, Florida.
Similar controversy sparked after another traveling mom gifted fellow jetsetters homemade baggies filled with candies and a pair of earplugs, pre-apologizing for any disturbances her newborn might cause during the flight.
'So tired of mothers having to pacify emotionally violent adults because their children are trying to learn and adjust to the world,' wrote a cynic beneath the vid, shared by TikTok hotshot Elliott. 'This was just triggering.'