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- From: hough@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Susan Hough)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Advice needed-first plane trip
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 17:22:36 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- References: <1992Nov17.133724.19227@cas.org>
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- Summary: advice worth saying in public(?)
-
- In article <1992Nov17.133724.19227@cas.org> jdb26@YP.sparcm1 writes:
- >We're taking our 15 month old on his first plane trip this weekend.
- >I have a feeling it could be 3 hours of hell!! Any advice on how
- >to him occupied or help with ear popping??? I'd like to hear what
- >other people's experiences have been. Even if my fears are realized, it
- >will still be better than 2 days in a car!
-
- There are various standard bits of advice for young children on
- plane trips--e.g., having food that the child likes to eat, a couple of
- new toys, and bottles (or a breast ;o) ) handy to help ears
- equilibrate. It also can help to let a toddler toddle around the
- isles if at all possible.
-
- But my best advice (having flown on 8 cross-country and 2 trans-atlantic
- flights with a young child in the last two years) is: RELAX. What's
- the worst that can happen? Your child will scream for 3 hrs straight
- and several people whom you don't know will give you some very
- dirty looks. Or, the plane could be delayed & your child will scream
- for 5 hrs straight and several people whom you don't know will give
- you some _extremely_ dirty looks. In all likelihood, they will survive,
- as will you.
-
- I'm all for taking reasonable precautions to keep one's child
- happy & to not intrude on other people's airspace. But
- I have gotten to where I refuse to be bullied or guilt-tripped
- because my young child is acting like a young child.
-
- Have fun!
-
- Sue
-