Dad’s video of flight attendant feeding 5-year-old son met with backlash

A dad who shared a video to praise a flight attendant for spoon feeding his five-year-old son on a plane has been met with fierce backlash.

An American dad who praised a flight attendant on social media for spoon feeding his five-year-old son on a plane has been met with backlash.

Michael Rutherford and his young son were flying business class to Tokyo with Singapore Airlines.

“Omg … I look behind me and my 5-year-old son is being spoonfed his chicken by the flight attendant,” he wrote, posting a video in a Facebook travel group about business and first class.

“The entire crew has been incredible and the attention to each passenger is hard to imagine possible. Anyone ever experienced this?”

The video showed the little boy with headphones on looking at a screen on his lap.

In front of him was his tray table with a white tablecloth and two plates of food.

A flight attendant crouched down in the aisle next to him feeding him from his plate.

A dad shared a video of a flight attendant feeding his son. Picture: Facebook / Michael Rutherford

The five-year-old and his dad were flying business class to Japan. Picture: Facebook / Michael Rutherford

Mr Rutherford also shared the video on Instagram, attracting thousands of comments.

While some thought it was “adorable” and “so sweet”, many criticised the California dad over his parenting.

“Those flight attendants are amazing. His parent should be feeding him, the flight attendant has enough work to do,” one comment read with almost 70,000 likes.

“Flight attendants are not babysitters. They are there for the safety of the passengers,” said another with almost 20,000 likes in support.

“Seriously great service but parents need to parent. I feel sorry for the cabin crew having to feed a kid who can’t survive with a screen,” a third penned.

Mr Rutherford defended his video saying the negativity on a “happy post” was unwarranted. Picture: Instagram / @michaelrutherfordonline

“Amazes me how entitled lots of people think they are just because of the money they have,” wrote another.

“I don’t care who you are. That’s disgraceful that your kid needs to be spoonfed by others. That kid will grow up thinking that the world revolves around him,” someone else added.

Mr Rutherford hit back at the comments for being so “negative” on what was a “happy post”.

To those shaming him for not sitting next to his child, he said his son wanted to be next to his friend, who was also five.