Travel with Children
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Travel with children not only can add extra enjoyment to your trip, but also a good chance to promote the mutual understanding and communication between you and your children. Though it is more challenging for traveling with children and sometimes it can be a test of patience and preparedness, right preparation can access you to a happy and enjoyable journey. Here is some useful information:
TOPBefore departure
1. Finding a destination suitable for both you and your children to visit, concerning geographic location, weather, environment, history and culture is the first step of a happy and safe journey. Children do not have the same resistance to infection as adults, so that it’s better to avoid the destinations with bad public health conditions.
2. Take your children to do a thorough physical examination and discuss the trip with the doctor to make sure your children fit to travel.
3. check with your doctor or a travel medical adviser well in advance so you can get the vaccinations you need.
4. Involve kids in holiday planning. Getting the kids to help you plan your holiday can get them interested and excited. Their input can help you have a holiday that’s fun for everyone. You could get some books from the library or find some websites about the place you’re going to so your children can look at pictures and tell you what looks fun. You could read some story books from the place you’ll visit, or learn a few words of the language. If your children are younger, you can come up with a basic plan and give them some options to choose from.
5. Make a relaxing, interesting and rewarding itinerary concerning the children’s physical strength and their inherence of vivacious mischievous, active and easily bored. Holidays with young children are often better if they are fairly simple. For example, staying in one place where there is scope for children's activities may be preferable to doing lots of sightseeing (and they may appreciate seeing the sights more when they are a little older).
6. Carefully pack you luggage. Remember to take the things useful for your children including necessary clothes, food, toys, feeding-bottle and nappies (for infant). Paper towels or wipes can have lots of uses. Besides, some medicine in common use also should be take with.
7. Help your children adapt themselves to the time differences in advance. Time differences are not problems to the children below five-year old, but it has a strong impact on those above. It is suggested that you and your children should adjust your life pace three days ahead of time.
8. Buy enough travel insurance for you and your children.
TOPOn Transport
1. some airlines are better at supporting parents travelling with children. You may wish to ask other parents who have travelled previously about which airlines were most helpful.
2. Dress a child lightly for air travel - you can get blankets from the cabin staff if needed. Layers of clothes that you can take on and off are a good idea.
3. Children are more likely to sleep through most of the trip. If they don’t want to sleep, try to keep them amuse.
4. If you travel by train or bus, make sure that the sun does not shine on your children directly.
5. Don’t let your children wander around while on transmit, which can prevent them against possible injury.
6. Try to prevent travel sickness. Almost 50% of children get travel sickness at some time of their traveling, such as unsettled "tummy", becoming pale, headache, dizziness and vomiting. The following are some ways to prevent travel sickness. First, don’t let your children on an empty stomach or eat fatty foods before leave. Second, help your children access to fresh air during traveling. Third, encourage your children to think about other things to engage their attention. Fourth, if your children get travel sickness, give them medicine under doctor’s advice.
TOPOn Traveling
1. When book tickets for children, you should known that there are always preferential measures and discounts on varied transport fares as well as the admission fees of the scenic spots.
2. Let your children a card written your name, telephone number and address in their pocket in case they become lost.
3. in hotel, help your children familiarize the emergence procedures in the event and access to the facilities of the hotel.
4. to prevent them from wetting the bed, don’t let your children drink too much water before going to bed.
5. Pay more attention to dietetic hygiene. Children lack the resistance to infection of adults and harder to acclimatize themselves to the new environment. The following is some useful information. Don't eat food purchased from street vendors. Don't drink beverages with ice. Wash hands often with soap or water (and/or instant antibacterial hand wash). Don't eat or drink dairy products unless you know they have been pasteurized. Eat only thoroughly cooked food, or fruits and vegetables that you have peeled yourself. Never eat uncooked meat, raw eggs, or use unpasteurized dairy products. Drink only boiled or bottled water or carbonated drinks in cans or bottles. Avoid tap water, fountain drinks and ice cubes. More specific information on drinking water in China please see: Drinking Water
6. Never let your children go anywhere alone. Keep them under your control and in views at all times, especially at scenic spots.
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