all PARENTS answer, conducting survey, would you help your child first on a plane?

Question

if you re on a plane with 1 child (lets say 3 years old) and the Oxygen mask fall, would you do as the safety announcement says and put your mask on first. or would you help your child first.

i want to know how many PARENTS (or future parents) would actually help themselves first?

please say
YES I would help myself first ( so i can help my child)
or
NO i would help my child first (my child is more important than i am)

just a little discussion my shrink and i are having. i think i am right and if i am, i am going to ditch her. i already asked this but need more responses to make a judgment. so please don't answer twice.

Answer 1

YES I would help myself first ( so i can help my child)



**My child is more important than anything, that's why I need to put my mask on first. So I can hold the mask on my child's face, to make sure they don't pull it off, while I'm putting on mine.

Answer 2

I would help my kid first. Everyone knows you're supposed to put your own mask on first and everyone knows all the things you're supposed to do in any emergency situation. But while it's actually happening, you don't always remember to do those things.



And if I may - I think it would be a mistake to leave your shrink over this no matter what kind of answers you get here. Most people here are not doctors. To put it simply, we don't know what we're talking about. If you get enough people who agree with you, all it might mean is that we're all wrong too. This whole question is about helping yourself so you can help your kids. That's what your psychiatrist is trying to help you do. If you stop seeing her, make sure you're doing it for the right reasons.

Answer 3

I would put the mask on myself first. It only takes a couple seconds, but if I were to put the mask on my child first, then pass out from the pressure, who would look after my child then? If there is pressure loss in the cabin, that could be a prelude to something more serious. I want to make sure that I'm alert enough to be able to protect my child.



I'm not doing my child any good if I'm passed out in the seat next to him/her.

Answer 4

Logically, here and now it makes sense that I would help myself first, as I need to be able to take care of my child. But in a plane that's in trouble, I don't know for sure. I don't know whether I would be level headed enough to override the Instinct of needing to make sure my child is safe above all else.

Either way I don't really think there's a true right or wrong answer, as long as your motivation is to protect and care for your child.

Answer 5

I honestly don't know how I would actually react in the situation if I was in it.



Logically, it makes sense to get that mask on yourself so you can help and I can't imagine that it takes more than a second to get it on. Additionally, I don't think you're in a complete vacuum, devoid of oxygen completely, when they drop. From what I understand, it just happens when the air is getting thinner. Therefore, the 5 seconds that it took for me to put mine on first wouldn't be much of a hindrance before I moved on to helping my child(ren).



But, who knows? Maybe, in that situation, all logic would fly out the window & I would panic, seeing my child scared & take care of them, first.

Answer 6

Almost every parent of a young child will say they would help the child first. No one really knows what they will do until their in that situation.

Example: At a base ball game a fowl ball heads at you and your child in a stroller. Every one says they will protect the kid. A few years ago I saw this happen. The dad ran and the baseball hit the stroller.

Answer 7

No, I would help my child first, because if I helped myself first, I might not have enough time to help my child. but, if I help my child first, even if I die, I know my baby will have a better chance at survival.

also, on a side note, I wouldn't ditch the shrink for a difference in opinion, just saying. good luck ( :

Answer 8

I'm with Rana Banana.



I'd put my own on because there's no possible other way I could help my four children: otherwise I'd help one child and then pass out. I think we all have an instinct to tend to our child first and that's why they have to drill the fact into us that to really help your child in that situation you need to be able to breathe. Many people's first instincts in emergencies turn out to be wrong, and that instinct to put the oxygen mask on your child while you pass out and then are not available to help them get off the plane (or prevent them from tearing it back off) is not an instinct that would ultimately help your kids.

Answer 9

So which do you think the answer would be?



I can't imagine any parent not helping their children first. In a situation like that, that's ALL you think about, is your child's safety. Your own well being probably wouldn't even cross your mind if something like that happened; I know mine wouldn't.

Answer 10

Yes. A three year old would probably pull it off so I need mine on to then make the child keep his/hers on. I cannot fight to make the child keep a mask on whilst I am trying to put my own on.

If it were a choice of either or. I would stick it on the child and hold it in place whilst I suffocated.

Answer 11

yes id help myself first so i could help my child..the others have said it all. people who would help the child first might think they are being noble but the reality is, you may only have seconds to react....how would the 3 yr old manage once you are dead or unconscious,to get off a crashed aircraft or help himself. You ignore safety advice, that is there for a very valid reason and you may kill your child.

Answer 12

No. I would help my child first. I am of the belief that if you bring a child into this world, it is your duty to do every thing you can to protect them. If more parents did that, less kids would be locked up as juvenile deliquents, there would be less teens addicted to drugs, and less moronic crap in this world to deal with on a daily.

Answer 13

While I know I'm supposed to put my mask on first, I'm sure maternal instinct will kick in and I'll help my daughter first. So:



NO, I would help my child first.

Answer 14

I would help my child first

Answer 15

No I would help my child first

Answer 16

I would help myself first. I need to be there for him..If I pass out, what is he going to do?

YES I would help myself first ( so i can help my child)

Answer 17

YES I would help myself first ( so i can help my child)



i can not help my child if i am not alert. i would have no choice but to put mine on first so i can stay alert enough to help my child.

Answer 18

help my child first, because there life is more important then mine

Answer 19

I would help myself and then help all of you guys passed out on the floor like idiots.