Oh Dear, where have all these vitriolic SLF appeared from. After reading all the posts since my original support for Gear Down I find that I havn't changed my mind!! This is a common sense thing - its called safety and its for the childs benefit. I am SLF, a parent and a grandparent and I would far sooner have seen any of my lot strapped safely into a seat and screaming than take the chance of them bursting out of the supplementary belt if anything went wrong. What would you prefer? Your child screaming but safe or flying around the cabin if something did, unfortunately, go wrong. At what age and size do you accept that its not safe, 5 yrs old, 10, 15 ? Cabin Crew, and Flight Crew, have a hard enough time coping with the mirriad regulations that now seem mandatory. Think about it, you wouldnt want to be seated unsafely in an emergency situation would you, so why make your child do it.