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On a two-hour flight, my 5-year-old daughter Ella was quietly watching her iPad when a boy across the aisle started whining. His mom bragged about their \u201cno screen time\u201d rule\u2026 then demanded I<\/em> turn off Ella\u2019s device so her son wouldn\u2019t cry.<\/p>\n I refused. She wasn\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n Minutes later, she \u201caccidentally\u201d knocked Ella\u2019s iPad to the floor, shattering it. Ella cried, and the mom gave a smug fake apology.<\/p>\n But karma hit fast.<\/p>\n Her son, now bored and overstimulated, flipped out \u2014 kicking, yelling, and eventually knocking over his mom\u2019s coffee\u2026 right into her open bag. Out slid her passport, which he promptly stepped on, grinding it into the soaked carpet.<\/p>\n By landing, her passport looked destroyed.<\/p>\n A flight attendant warned her she\u2019d likely miss her international connection \u2014 and she did. As she panicked on the phone, rearranging her whole trip, Ella and I walked off the plane for ice cream.<\/p>\n In the end, she broke my daughter\u2019s iPad\u2026 On a two-hour flight, my 5-year-old daughter Ella was quietly watching her iPad when a boy across the aisle started whining. His mom bragged about their \u201cno screen time\u201d rule\u2026 then demanded I turn off Ella\u2019s device so her son wouldn\u2019t cry. I refused. She wasn\u2019t happy. Minutes later, she \u201caccidentally\u201d knocked Ella\u2019s iPad …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9920,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918\/revisions\/9920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
but karma broke her vacation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"