Medical Concerns

Medical Concerns
- When traveling with children with medical concerns ... Make sure they have their own identification, whether it be a medical necklace or an identification card. Make sure it has your telephone number, the name and number of their physician, and their medical concerns.

Memory Making
- Memory making is a very important part of your trip. Your children can enjoy creating their own special memories. Have them keep a scrapbook or journal for your vacation. They can cut pictures out of brochures and paste them in, keep their ticket stubs, have new friends they meet sign their books, and much more! Even young children can color or draw things to represent what they have seen on the trip. Mom and Dad can help the younger ones by writing down some of the things they really enjoyed doing on their trip.

Mileage Game for Kids
- While travelling a LONG way in the car, here is a fun game to play with children almost any age! As you are driving, there are signs that state the mileage until cities and states. As you see these signs, have each child state their prediction for how many miles the next sign will say. Whoever comes closest can recieve a small prize or candy as an incentive. It's a great way to pass the time, and even teenagers in the family enjoy playing it! Also, the children get more and more excited as the miles grow shorter. Before you know it the signs will be reading 1 more mile to go! Good luck with your travelling!

Motion (or Other) Sickness and Nausea
- Use a double sided tape to attach a 4-gallon plastic trash bag to the inside of a brown lunch bag, much the way you would line a trash can.

Movies for the Kids
-Use your camcorder, that has a flip out viewing screen, to watch our children's favorite movies on the plane. Record them ahead of time by using a tripod and zooming in on the TV screen. Turn the TV up loud when recording, because the plane noise makes it more difficult to hear when watching it later.

Music Tames the Active Child
- You can't beat music or stories for kids to pass the time. The ideal may be a personal stereo with headphones, but that's not always available or practical. If everyone has to listen together, it can be tougher, since much of kids' music is intolerable by older siblings and parents ... but not all. You might check out my stuff ... targeted toward preschool and elementary ages, but written with a wider audience in mind.

No - We're Not There Yet
- For long road trips with children, take a little spiral notebook and ahead of the trip write down names of all the cities you will be passing through. Then on the trip, as you get to each city, point it out to them and they can check it off their list. They get sort of a visual idea of how much more of the trip they have left and it gives them something to do every so often.

Organizing the Children's Clothing
- Taking the family vacation can sometimes be difficult. So when packing, put together the children's outfits and place them folded in a plastic bag. Then you can write on the top what is in each bag and can have the clothing handy in the morning. This way you can keep everything clean and be organized and you won't have fights about what to wear.

Outlet and Knob Covers
- When travelling with small children, take along a package of outlet covers. Most hotel rooms neglect to provide these little shock savers, and there are often outlets placed tantalizingly at child height. For rooms equipped with stoves/ ovens, remember to bring knob covers, or simply remove the knobs while not in use.