I use velcro to stick my toddler to plane seats to stop her wriggling away

In a clip that has over 19 million views, the mum calls it her "ultimate travel hack." But a lot of people don't agree.

A mum has gone viral for all the wrong reasons after she filmed herself velcroing her child to a plane seat with fastening strips.

 

Lisa Flom posted the clip, titled "Things I wish I knew as a first-time mum," and it quickly amassed over 19 million views.

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Helps with parenting "overwhelm"

She dubbed it the 'ultimate airplane travel hack', as it stops her one-year-old tot from wriggling around. 

She shows herself sticking the strips to both the chair and the back of her baby's legs, and then lowers the child onto the seat. 

The mum then holds a boarding ticket in front of the baby's face, just out of arms reach, and the child leans forward in a bid to touch it but struggles. 

Speaking to Newsweek, Lisa said: "My one-year-old is all over the place and sometimes you just want two minutes to get something done," adding that motherhood can be "overwhelming" at times. 

"It was actually my husband's idea to add velcro to the chair and the back of the baby's clothes so she would stay in one place."

She also noted it was just a "fun thing to do" as well as being practical. 

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When it was time to deplane, Lisa peeled the strips off both the seat and her baby's legs, but viewers still believed there'd be residue left. 

One person asked: "So after you pull it off, the next passenger has to sit in the sticky tape residue?"

Another echoed: "What about the sticky residue just left for the next passenger?"

A third replied snarkily: "And do you pay the airline to get the residue off the seat or do you scrub them yourself?"

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"Is this legal?"

Others questioned the safety of the 'hack'.

"Mum of four here. The kid would be safer in a car seat," one fellow parent claimed.

A second added: "I take my car seat on every single trip. So easy. And my aunt is a retired flight attendant and have seen lots of babies injured during turbulence."

"Is this legal?" someone else asked. "I feel so bad for your baby," a different woman shared.

Originally published as I use velcro to stick my toddler to plane seats to stop her wriggling away