Always find it amusing when Staff traveling on Jetstar with the kids and they give us seats all over the aircraft.
I simply go up to the grumpy bums behind the desk and explain that we’ll get on this flight either way and my 3 year old will refuse to sit next to a stranger and your flight will end up getting delayed when you offload us and have to look for our multiple car seats, prams and bags. Usually a bit of common sense prevails and magically a seat together is found.