How to travel with children by plane in peace and quiet

Flying a plane is a difficult challenge for children, parents and surrounding passengers. Kids are not easy to survive the pressure drops, they swayed. To sit in one place longer than an hour is difficult even for an adult.

The website has collected the advice of psychologists and life hacks for parents that will help make the journey a quiet, peaceful and enjoyable for all.

The main rule: children feel the mood of parents. If mom is nervous because of the fact that the flight delay or late taxi, it is passed to the child.







This is due to the sharp pressure drop. Sometimes accompanied by pain in the ears. There are several ways to deal with it.

Kids from 1 year to 3 years:

• give a pacifier or bottle, and some moms feed their babies breast;
• if the kid likes to repeat after you, try it with him widely to yawn or just open your mouth wide;
• try children's ear plugs that help gradually stabilize the pressure in the ears, with the result that children do not feel discomfort.

Children from 3 years:

• good to yawn or open your mouth wide;
• "blow" ears: close your mouth and pinch the nose with your hands and try to breathe air;
• suck lozenges, drink through a straw or something to eat, for example bread or an Apple;
• to try baby ear plugs.

If the child has a cold, he had a stuffy nose or inflamed throat, doctors recommend drops, soothing the mucosa, or baby ear plugs.







Kids from 1 year to 3 years:

• Healthy sleep

Many parents will adapt the flight to the child's daily routine. If this fails, then for 5-6 days before the flight gradually tunable mode to the sleep coincided with the period of the flight. 1-2 hours before departure you can wander around with your child at the airport before landing to make him a warming massage in the room of mother and child, to feed and replace the diaper. To do it on Board uncomfortable. Some kids fall asleep faster if they are rocked, wandering around the cabin.

• Food

Children easier to cope with flying with food, especially when it comes to favorite treats. Turn it into a game: take a children's biscuit in the form of letters and animals, the marmalade in the form of Teddy bears or worms.

• Physical activity

Plane for toddler is a huge toy. Take a walk with your child through the cabin, telling how a plane works, look to the flight attendants in the compartment where the food and drinks for passengers. On some domestic us flights allowed in the cockpit.

• Games and entertainment

Choose your seats at the window. Breathe on the glass, misted it now, it is possible to draw with their fingers. Try to look for clouds in the sky, like animals. There are stained-glass stickers in the form of animals — they are easy to stick and peel, and can make a real circus on the glass.

Play air football with a napkin to lay the folding table, take your napkin, crumple it into a ball and blow on it from different sides, it will not drop from the edge of the table.

Try interactive normal and soft sewn books (only without music) with small Windows, wheels, envelopes and pop-up paper figures. Children can spend hours looking at them, play with them.

Playing with the baby in the pantomime, "Forty-crow", her hands or thimbles. You can hide 1-2 subject and play "Hot-cold". Make finger puppets (photo below) and play a mini-play directly in the jump table.







For children from 4 years:

• Healthy sleep

To make the child comfortable to sleep in a chair, grab a neck pillow and a blanket. Ask the flight attendant to reseat you towards the back of the plane if there are empty seats, so that the child could lie down along the seat.

• Games and cartoons on a tablet with headphones

Help to distract the child's attention. But be careful, sometimes children get carsick.

• Game

Try kids games to travel, for example, UNO card game, Activity, or Travel puzzle game, Leonardo. Remember the game from childhood on paper: hangman, TIC-TAC-toe, mazes, dots, sea battle, nonsense, football.

• Creative activities

There are albums for scratchboard (photo below) and water coloring that can take the baby and keep the area around clean.

• Quest "On Board" (for children from 3 years)

Turn the entire flight into a real adventure: when landing the kid gets a sheet with the tasks that need to be completed by the end of the flight. If assignments are made, the commander is awarding its main prize from the hands of beautiful stewardess.

What to do:

Create a list of tasks. It described the task in front of each is a square. This check-list. Create the job and select puzzles. It is important to calculate the run time so that jobs enough for the whole flight. Prepare the main prize, such as a new toy. Give it to the stewardess at the beginning of the flight, explaining the idea. Act: before the flight, give the child a check-list and a pen. Explain the rules of the game. Doing the job, he notes on a piece of their success. When all tasks are done, the kid presses the call button and the stewardess gets the prize. Ideas for job Ideas for quest tasks:

• "Dancing men". A coded message. On a piece of paper write down the alphabet, each letter is assigned its own code — a unique dancing man. On a separate sheet using the code writes a message. The child is given a sheet with the alphabet (decoding) and the encoded message have to solve.
• "100 steps". The baby need to measure the aircraft, the data recorded in the checklist. Steps to measure the length of salon, elbow — width (it is convenient to measure along the walls of the last and first rows) palms — width seats. Baby measures, you are helping him think out loud.
• "Black square". Cut from black cardboard square. Cut it into parts as described here. Typically, the solution to the puzzle goes from 10 to 25 minutes. Be careful: if you cut square, not keeping the "scheme" of cutting, you risk it then not collect.
• "Lunch break". You need to eat during the flight, without a single whim.
• "Launch aircraft". Make together the paper airplane. Spend 3 trial run along the corridor, where there are empty seats and no passengers.

Child from 1 year to 3 years:

Blow gently in his face, spray onto face with a little water. Children soothing caress, calm voice, rocking, gentle massage. Distract attention, smile, hug, kid, offer him a toy or drink.

Child from 4 years:

Ask the child calmly discuss together the problems after breathing exercises. Do together 10 deep exhalations and inhalations. Ask yourself whether you understand it, give a chance to speak. Offer a drink, book or toy. Embrace it, it will help the kid quicker to cope with stress.



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