Air traffic Control

Today on the radio as i was driving to work, I heard that in New York a father took his son to work with him. Nothing wrong with that, except that he aloud his son to give out instructions to the pilots. By the way the father works for air traffic control. The whole time that I was hearing this, I just thought Why? I mean seriously, what if the kid pronounce something wrong or just distracted the pilots. This is some serious stuff. I mean if this is the kind of stuff that is going to happen then I don't want to get in a plane. When the radio guy finished the story, listener called in. Listeners surprised me by saying it wasn't a big deal. But the more I listened, the more I found out that these people didn't even travel on planes often or at all. Now people are aloud to have there opinions, but I just had to disagree with this.