Five Tips For Traveling With Children

[KeithD]

Family vacations are special times of the entire year, nonetheless they can be very demanding for mothers and fathers to make it through. Airline travel is especially challenging and can be the main cause of considerable amounts of anxiety for the complete family. Sadly for several kinds of holiday you cannot find any way around passing through an airport terminal and traveling by private jet, it is over and above almost all of our wildest dreams.

Even so, there's a few steps you can take to really make the airport terminal experience significantly less traumatic rather than be a reason behind disputes. The following factors are very easy to plan for and will not really bring about substantial increases in fees. In the end the trade-off is a much more happy day of travelling.

1) Book your own airline seats ahead of time in order to avoid getting segregated in numerous rows and in many cases portions of the airplane, it is recommended to pre-book your own airline seats. Whilst young babies up to the age of 2 are often seated on a parent’s lap, this is not the case with youngsters over 2. If you are delayed in any way on your way to the airport you will not be guaranteed seats together, thus make sure you plan for this in advance.

2) Allow for extra time whether you are traveling with a toddler or trying to deal with young adults, you have got to allow for additional time at the airport. Passing through security is going to take longer the more people you are travelling with and with heightened security procedures this can take a long time. The last thing you want to occur would be to find yourself running towards your departure gate just to find out you have missed your airline flight.

3) Book straight into an airport terminal lounge, particularly when travelling with little ones, this is a great deal simpler to cope with them within an airport terminal lounge. The majority of people have no clue that you don't need to be travelling business class to obtain entry to a lounge. The benefits are that for a comparatively small fee you will have a sealed off, peaceful setting. Snacks and drinks will also be available, and a lot of lounges include small play places along with other kid’s entertainment.

4) Include little surprises for the journey. No matter how old your kids are, they will enjoy receiving a small gift. For a young child this can be as simple as a new book or pens to do some drawing. Dependent on the age, the attention span can differ, so you may need to bring along a few small surprises. For adolescent children you may need to spend a little more, for example on new games for a portable games console or download some new music tracks ahead of time to listen to.

5) Do not dash off the plane. When is the last time you got to the luggage belt to find that your luggage is already there? For many individuals this will never have happened, so when the airplane arrives at the gate, just stay seated and wait for everyone else to push and shove their way off. Especially with young children, it is not necessary to be part of that hassle of being first off the plane.

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[andy222]

, At what age would be best to take a toddler to the Phils?

[SimonH]

We took Charleigh at 5 months old, no problems at all

[andy222]

Just carry her Simon?

[SimonH]

Just carry her Simon?

Yep, the airline will give you a basinet seat which is basically a bulkhead seat with a cot the attaches to the bulkhead so you can rest your baby there.
I've told it's a lot easier to take babies before they get to the crawling stage, also another tip is to feed them on take off and landing, as they're sucking and swallowing it'll will equalise the ears and not cause them any pain

[robbie bobby]

Yep, the airline will give you a basinet seat which is basically a bulkhead seat with a cot the attaches to the bulkhead so you can rest your baby there.
I've told it's a lot easier to take babies before they get to the crawling stage, also another tip is to feed them on take off and landing, as they're sucking and swallowing it'll will equalise the ears and not cause them any pain

Is breast feeding considered acceptable on airlines at this present time? We may be about heading off to Phils soon with our baby and my wife doesn't use bottles - nor does our little angel accept one at the moment. We have spent the last 7 days trying to wean her off the breast but to no avail. Have tried all the tested methods.

[raynaputi]

Is breast feeding considered acceptable on airlines at this present time? We may be about heading off to Phils soon with our baby and my wife doesn't use bottles - nor does our little angel accept one at the moment. We have spent the last 7 days trying to wean her off the breast but to no avail. Have tried all the tested methods.

Only ignorant people don't understand breastfeeding. Read this story. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...er-flight.html

Anyway, I will advise breastfeeding mums to use something like this (in photo) just to be "appropriate" in the views of others. In the Philippines, a lot of breastfeeding mums don't really get any backlash while nursing their babies.

[KeithD]

We have spent the last 7 days trying to wean her off the breast but to no avail. Have tried all the tested methods.

Well it has to be done at some point, otherwise the kid will be getting home from university wanting to suckle

It is simple..... just stop. Eventually the baby gets hungry enough to eat anything. Job done. Too many people let the baby control what happens, when all the parents need to do is make a decision and stick to it.

Also, switch to a natural teat on bottles

http://www.boots.com/en/Vital-Baby-N...ategory+-+Baby

[Ako Si Jamie]

Job done.

[SimonH]

Personally I think the baby will come off the breast when he or she wants to.

One advantage that springs immediately to mind for keeping your baby on the breast when an imminent trip abroad is coming up is you don't have to worry about taking all the associated bits and bobs that comes with bottle feeding. Can you get the formula milk in the country you're going to, if not you have to take enough with you for your trip or change when you get there and hope your baby will take to the new formula.

One other thing I would recommend is when packing spread your babies clothes over 2 or 3 suitcases and your carry on just in case a bag goes missing

[andy222]

Good advice Simon, cheers!

[KeithD]

this... I'm getting off NOW!!!

[KeithD]

Great idea.