How Strangers Helped A Mom With A Screaming Toddler At LAX

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Any parent has been there. Your baby or toddler is crying or screaming and, even with all your tools in hand, you cannot calm him or her down.

That knowledge may have forced a group of strangers to help a pregnant mother calm her screaming toddler at the Los Angeles International Airport. The details of the random act of kindness were shared earlier this month in a Facebook post by Beth Bornstein Dunnington.

In the Facebook post that has now been shared more than 17,000 times, Dunnington wrote that something "extraordinary" happened at LAX.

"I was at the gate, waiting to get on my plane to Portland," Dunnington wrote. "Flights to two different cities were boarding on either side of the Portland fight. A toddler who looked to be eighteen or so months old was having a total meltdown, running between the seats, kicking and screaming, then lying on the ground, refusing to board the plane (which was not going to Portland)."

Dunnginton said the "young mom, who was clearly pregnant and traveling alone with her son, became completely overwhelmed... she couldn't pick him up because he was so upset, he kept running away from her, then lying down on the ground, kicking and screaming again. The mother finally sat down on the floor and put her head in her hands, with her kid next to her still having a meltdown, and started crying."

At that moment, a group of women went over to the overwhelmed mother to help calm the toddler down, Dunnington wrote.

"We knelt down and formed a circle around them," the Facebook post read. "I sang 'The Itsy Bitsy Spider' to the little boy... one woman had an orange that she peeled, one woman had a little toy in her bag that she let the toddler play with, another woman gave the mom a bottle of water. Someone else helped the mom get the kid's sippy cup out of her bag and give it to him."

The toddler eventually calmed down thanks to the group of strangers.

"It was so gorgeous, there was no discussion and no one knew anyone else, but we were able to calm them both down, and she got her child on the plane," Dunnginton said. "Only women approached. After they went through the door we all went back to our separate seats and didn't talk about it... we were strangers, gathering to solve something. It occurred to me that a circle of women, with a mission, can save the world. I will never forget that moment."

The unforgettable moment received more than 58,000 Likes on Facebook. It seems other people won't forget about this encounter either!

--Photo via LAX

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