In just four tweets, one dad summed up how absurd it is to be disrespectful to parents who bring their kids on flights.

On Monday, Elon James White, founder of the multimedia platform This Week in Blackness, tweeted that he read a post on social media about someone who yelled at parents to keep their kids quiet on a plane. Then, White asked a simple question about the scenario: “What exactly are parents expected to do?”

Just read a post of someone yelling at people w/ kids to keep their kids from crying on planes. What exactly are parents expected to do? — Elon James White (@elonjames) January 2, 2017

As a parent, I can't even explain to you the precautions we take to try to make sure our kid doesn't cry on a plane. But it ain't up to us. — Elon James White (@elonjames) January 2, 2017

"I didn't have kids so I shouldn't have to listen to yours scream."



You should fly a private jet then. I deal w/ shit I hate all the time. — Elon James White (@elonjames) January 2, 2017

It's just amazing how shitty people can react to a kid and their parents. As if the parents are so ecstatic that the kid is screaming... — Elon James White (@elonjames) January 2, 2017

White told The Huffington Post he’s never had a passenger on a flight talk directly about his child, but he and his wife have heard plenty of stories from people complaining about kids on planes. The post on social media motivated him to start a conversation to point out a parent’s perspective.

“My wife and I both try everything in our power to make sure our child isn’t the crying baby because we’ve heard so many people say such awful things about parents and kids on planes,” he said. “But having tried to calm a 5-month-old down on a plane, seeing the post on social media about how parents need to control their kids really got to me. It implied that parents are just letting kids cry when in all honesty when a kid is crying their parents are the ones who are the most frustrated.”

After White tweeted, parents responded and wrote that they also worry about passengers confronting them when they fly with their kids. Many non-parents also joined the conversation to say they understood “how desperate” parents must be when their babies cry on flights. One even said she would think more about the way she reacted while traveling with other people’s kids after reading White’s tweets.

@elonjames It's so hard, cos you know you're being judged. It's easy to forget babies are people and it's SUPER hard to control other people — Erin DeCaprio (@ErinDeCaprio) January 2, 2017

I completely understand how desperate parents with babies are on flights to keep them quiet. Adults are the most annoying. https://t.co/PR5hShXq7Z — ♚King Kortney♚ (@fakerapper) January 2, 2017

@elonjames And during the holidays? Dude. People with babies on planes aren't doing it FOR FUNSIES. — Sarah Tuttle (@niais) January 2, 2017

Crying kid means you've tried EVRYThing and nothing works, which sucks. They're just uncomfortable (like most of us on a plane). https://t.co/i5TdxSUGZu — JLBarrow (@JLBarrow) January 2, 2017

As a non-parent, this makes me think about the situation differently. Definitely going to work on my reaction (i.e not bitching about it). https://t.co/URcjJlvTjr — Calla (@heyitscalla) January 2, 2017

White said “it was great” seeing so many people, both with kids and without, empathize with parents. He told HuffPost he wanted more people to understand that “kids are humans” and moms and dads don’t deserve disrespect for traveling with their families.