{"id":16308,"date":"2025-11-05T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=16308"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:04:12","slug":"during-my-last-flight-a-seven-year-old-boy-kept-hitting-my-seat-nothing-would-calm-him-down-so-heres-what-i-decided-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=16308","title":{"rendered":"During my last flight, a seven-year-old boy kept hitting my seat: nothing would calm him down, so here\u2019s what I decided to do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On my last flight home from a long business trip, I was exhausted and desperate for sleep. I settled into my seat, closed my eyes, and hoped for a quiet journey \u2014 until a little boy behind me started talking nonstop and knocking into my seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally I wouldn\u2019t mind, but I was running on fumes. His tapping turned into full kicks, and despite my polite requests to his mom and even the flight attendant\u2019s attempts to help, nothing changed. He just kept going, louder and stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Completely drained and out of patience, I decided to handle it myself. So, at just the right moment, I leaned back suddenly \u2014 and my drink tipped, spilling juice right into the mother\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She shot up, furious and startled. The boy froze under her glare and instantly stopped hitting my seat. The rest of the flight was peaceful and quiet \u2014 and for the first time that day, I finally got the silence I needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my last flight home from a long business trip, I was exhausted and desperate for sleep. I settled into my seat, closed my eyes, and hoped&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":442,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16310,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308\/revisions\/16310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}