I read a book about raising daughters, "
What a Difference a Daddy Makes." (Yes, yes, I know -- but I know
so
little about the opposite sex that I didn't think it could hurt.) The
point is, the author said he never let his children fly alone -- even
if it meant crisscrossing the country himself for no other reason than
to play chaperone on United or, worse,
AirTran.
At
first I thought he was crazy, but I began to wonder whether I would do
the same when my own daughter comes to "flying alone age" (11 months,
is it?). My wife, Dana, flew alone as a child and now takes a measure
of pride that she slipped away from her steward captors, hopped off the
plane in Chicago and called her parents while eating a hamburger. Her
parents ordered her back to the plane immediately.
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