My Toddler Daughter's Experience with Airport Security (TSA)

My family and I travel quite frequently. As a result, we are familiar with many of the new and every changing Transportation Security Administration rules and regulations. We have visited airports in major cities such as Miami, Orlando, both Houston airports, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Washington DC and New York just to name a few. On occasion I have to travel on family business alone, but usually our family travels together, all five of us ranging in age from 41 to 18 months old.

The Transportation Security Administration was:
"formed immediately following the tragedies of Sept. 11. Our agency is a component of the Department of Homeland Security and is responsible for security of the nation's transportation systems. With our state, local and regional partners, we oversee security for the highways, railroads, buses, mass transit systems, ports and the 450 U.S. airports. We employ approximately 50,000 people from Alaska to Puerto Rico to ensure your travels - by plane, train, automobile or ferry - are safe and secure."

If you travel, you have encountered this agency. They are the ones who x-ray your luggage prior to it being sent through to be placed on your plane, they walk you through the metal detector, they search your baggage, purses, diaper bags, and other personal belongs. They use a wand and even physically search your body to check for hazards or threats to airlines and passengers.