"Dad, why is this plane jumping around so much?"
(And it was.)
"Well son, just like you it can't keep still when its excited."
And after junior had 'disappeared' (age 3, he was watching the planes out the window) airside in T4 and been returned to his distraught mother by a policeman.
"What happened, son?"
"Mummy got lost."
Nearest he has come to death.
I agree totally that kids take their cue from the parents. Was involved in an emergency evacuation (everyone down the slides from a smoke filled plane) a few years ago. An Aussie said to his lad, about seven, "That was fun, would you like to have another go?" and then had to hare after him as he ran back towards the plane. An english mum and her fourteen year old spent a happy half hour sobbing in each others arms. The next day saw the same people at the gate: the lad got his boarding card from his dad and ran on ahead, the daughter was with a grief counsellor debating whether to get on the plane.