Taking a four-month-old baby on a 10-hour flight is enough to make most parents nervous.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!One mum, however, was so concerned about how her son might handle his first ever journey in the air that she came prepared with more than 200 peace offerings for her fellow passengers.
The unnamed mother was travelling from Seoul, Korea, to San Francisco, California, with her four-month-old son Junwoo and his grandmother, per Business Insider.
Knowing there was always a chance her baby could become unsettled during such a long journey, she reportedly made her way through the plane handing passengers goodie bags containing sweets, earplugs and a note written from Junwoo’s perspective.
Passenger Dave Corona later shared the thoughtful gesture on Facebook, revealing that more than 200 bags had been prepared.
The message introduced passengers to the young traveller and explained why his mum had gone to so much effort.
“Hello, I’m Junwoo and I’m 4 months old,” the note in Corona’s photo reads. “Today I am going to the U.S. with my mom and grandmom to see my aunt.”
It then warned that, with this being Junwoo’s first experience on a plane, things might get a little noisy.
“I’m a little bit nervous and scary [sic] because it’s my first flight […] which means I may cry or make too such noise. I will try to go quietly, though I can’t make any promises.. Please excuse me,” the note reads. “So my mom prepared little goodie bags for you! Please use [the earplugs] when it’s too noisy because of me.”
Corona, who was returning from a work trip, initially had no idea why the woman was walking through the cabin handing things out.
“At first, I thought she was a flight attendant,” Corona said. “In fact, the seat mates that were next to me, who were from San Jose, even asked her ‘Can we have some slippers?’ She didn’t speak any English. She only spoke Korean, so she waved us off and just handed us the goodie bags. Then I started reading the note and I realized that she was the mother.”
He described it as “a very touching gesture by the mother”, although, as a parent himself, he understood only too well that travelling with young children can be unpredictable.
“My wife and I have twins,” Corona said. “So when we traveled when they were little, we had to carry them the entire time and there was no handing them off to one another, so I know exactly what it’s like. In fact, we used to go early to restaurants with our twins to go out to eat because we knew if we went regular time, it would be such a hassle.
“But I don’t think I would do the goodie bag thing,” Corona said. “It’s just way too much work.”
After preparing hundreds of bags and making sure passengers had earplugs at the ready, it turned out they weren’t needed after all.
Despite his mum preparing the entire cabin for the possibility of a difficult 10 hours, Corona revealed there was “not a peep out of the kid.”
For Junwoo’s fellow passengers, the sweets proved considerably more useful than the earplugs.
Featured image credit: Dave Corona / Facebook
