“If you don’t get your child under control, I’ll do it for you.”

An operating room nurse-turned-influencer has sparked a furious debate over whether she and her husband did the right thing when they threatened to discipline a stranger’s child who spat on them during a flight.

Shayla Monnier and husband Andrew boarded a crowded flight from Atlanta to Denver and found themselves sitting behind a couple and their young daughter, who they said was between three and five years old.

The child repeatedly turned around to blow raspberries at the pair, showering them with saliva and resisting her parents’ attempts to control her.

Monnier said her husband “lost his cool” and told the parents he would check on their child if they didn’t, but she was shocked by the backlash after she posted her experience online.

“Is everyone seriously gentle parenting these days? Because that’s not my point. Not when you spit in my face,” she said.

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Monnier, of Windsor, Calif., said the child slept in the seat between his parents for most of the flight before waking up and becoming interested in the passengers behind him.

The girl decided to blow on the raspberry, sending “spit flying over my face and my husband’s arm,” she said in her viral TikTok.

“I was a bit shocked and her parents told her not to do it and then it just happened,” she added.

“And she fought back against them, turned around in her seat and spat at us again.

“This time I put my hand up – just to block the saliva from me and her parents grabbed her and made her sit up, but she struggled, she tried to turn around and spit on us some more, and she did.

“She turned around the third time, when I say spit now, I mean (blowing the raspberry), but the spit went everywhere.

“The third time, my husband said very sternly to the parents, ‘If you don’t get your child under control, I’ll do it for you,’ and ‘why don’t you put a mask on her?’ You both wear masks, why doesn’t she have a mask?”.

“Then my mom yelled at him and said, ‘If you had kids, maybe you’d understand,’ to which my husband replied, ‘We have five kids and six grandkids, and I promise you, not one of them would do something like that.’

The 44-year-old’s TikTok page lit up with thousands of comments praising, criticizing and suggesting what she could have done differently.

“My first thought when you said you spit on your hand… stand up and rub your hand on your parent’s arm,” Karen Lewis wrote.

“I’m 63 and I can feel my dad’s hand on my butt,” wrote another. “I can tell you that I would only do this once in my life.

“I have no idea why there can’t be adults-only flights,” sighed a third.

“You’re not tall and mighty lol,” commented a fourth. “Your kind just do everything perfectly, don’t they?

“Blowing raspberries is not spitting, you are getting angry unnecessarily. I bet you’re someone who’s always horny.’

“You don’t understand how she got out of control,” Monnier said in a follow-up video.

“I have children and my children would never do that.

“Yes, I did consider the fact that a child might have special needs, well, sometimes it’s obvious, sometimes it’s not, it wasn’t obvious to me.

“If that’s the case and you’re a parent, you have to have a plan, right?

“So I don’t know what it is, if you sit in the last row of the plane so your child can’t go to the people behind them, if you take a car seat and strap them in, if it’s you talk to your doctor about helping them have some medication to they could sleep on the plane.

“Whatever the answer is, it’s never that they can just spit in someone else’s face.”

Monnier said there was nowhere to sit on the packed flight and no one would want to switch seats after seeing the child’s behavior.

According to her, however, the situation was resolved when the flight attendant saw the disturbance, came and ordered the parents to put a mask on their daughter.

She and her husband were given flight credits and the baby promptly fell asleep for the rest of the flight.

“It’s such a tricky situation,” Learnthoughts wrote. “Even if someone’s child is misbehaving, if you correct them – parents sometimes overreact! and be angry with you! Some parents just let them misbehave and then look for a fight.

“You were showered with the spit of gentle parenting,” the SRA added.

“I have no idea why there can’t be adults-only flights,” sighed a third.