{"id":438618,"date":"2010-03-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/babies_on_airplanes"},"modified":"2010-03-17T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T13:27:19","slug":"babies-on-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/438618","title":{"rendered":"Babies on Airplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will attest to having a wide variety of faults (shameless viewing of reality TV, extreme impatience, rare usage of my turn signal). But <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 144px; HEIGHT: 170px\" height=\"170\" alt=\"cry\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/cry.jpg\" width=\"144\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/>nobody can ever say I am not a good friend. Case&nbsp;in point: This morning I drove my amigo to the airport at 4am. He is going to Vegas. I am not. He is sitting by the pool replenishing his vitamin D. I am not. He is engaging in all the other pleasures Sin City has to offer. I. Am. Not.<\/p>\n<p>I may be a good friend, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m not bitter. So, because it was 4am, and because I&#8217;m not a morning person, and because I&#8217;m insanely jealous, as I dropped my pal off I told him I hoped he was seated in-between two teething infants on the flight.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"children on airplanes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TRAVEL\/03\/16\/babies.crying.planes\/index.html?hpt=Sbin\">Children, especially infants- on airplanes<\/a> is a very contentious topic. Some say they have no place being on a flight, and dread listening to them cry, as there is no means for escape. Others sympathize with the parent, and expect the<a title=\"kids.gov\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kids.gov\/\"> kids<\/a> to cry- that&#8217;s what babies do.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a title=\"air travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pueblo.gsa.gov\/links\/tr73links.htm\">air-travel<\/a> is becoming less and less enjoyable, and it&#8217;s unlikely that the issue of crying kids on-board will ever be resolved, below are some tips when <a title=\"traveling\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.gov\/Citizen\/Topics\/Travel\/Air.shtml\">traveling<\/a> with young ones.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since babies can&#8217;t chew gum to relieve ear pressure at take-off and landing, give them something to suck on such as a pacifier or a bottle. <\/li>\n<li>Be sure you carry on all the items you need to keep the child content: toys, change of clothing, blanket, etc. <\/li>\n<li>For older kids, bring books and toys they&#8217;ve never seen before. The novelty of something new will extend their interest. <\/li>\n<li>Portable DVD players, video ipods, and portable video game systems with ear phones are worth every penny. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In general, just making an effort to quiet a fussy child is appreciated by fellow passengers. Trying to fix the situation will often draw sympathy from those around you.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any tricks to keep kids content while traveling? How do you deal with a crying child in the air?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will attest to having a wide variety of faults (shameless viewing of reality TV, extreme impatience, rare usage of my turn signal). But nobody can ever say I am not a good friend. Case&nbsp;in point: This morning I drove my amigo to the airport at 4am. He is going to Vegas. I am not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}