Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children

by Marlene M. Coleman

This handbook seeks to provide the necessary preventive and proactive approach to assist parents in ensuring that their children -beginning in infancy and lasting through adolescence - come back from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762726911
• ISBN13: 9780762726912
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children

Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children is the complete reference guide for caregivers, parents, and grandparents who are planning a vacation, either locally or abroad, with their children or grandchildren. This book covers everything from travel planning through safety to ways to make family vacations run smoother. This book includes three sections: Travel Planning, Safety, and Well-being; Travel Challenges and Solutions; and Travel Modes. Part One, Travel Planning, Safety, and Well-being, includes chapters on Planning a Vacation; Parent's Guide to Safety at Home and Abroad; Health Guidelines to Follow; and What to pack. In these chapters, the author shares general preparation hints and important health reminders with parents to ensure that both adults and their children have a safe vacation. The author not only includes invaluable health concern alerts but also information on victimization safety and how to deal with potential illness while traveling. Part two, Travel Challenges and Solutions includes chapters on Other Travel Situations; Grand Trips with Grandparents; and Today's Special-Needs Travelers. Chapters in this section examine special considerations that can easily become awkward situations during family travel. By being prepared and making use of the important suggestions set out in these chapters, difficult situations can be reduced and special challenges can even enhance your family experience. Part three, Travel Modes, includes chapters on Commercial Transportation; Travel by Car, SUV, or RV; and Family Outdoors. The chapters in this final section look at specific safety concerns that caregivers, parents, and grandparents should be aware of and be prepared for while traveling on their vacation. The author also gives adults some good ideas about how to prepare and keep children entertained during such travel. Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children is a helpful guide for anyone planning on traveling with a child or children from any grade group. Very complete key information is provided for easy reference while planning any vacation. By taking note of the hints and tips in this reference, parents can reduce the likelihood of unexpected problems and dangerous situations while increasing the potential enjoyment of their special family time.

Move over Dr. Spock

As I read this book, one thought kept occurring to me: Why didn't anybody tell me this before? Move over Dr. Spock, there's a new pediatrician in town.

Take your pediatrician with you

This book deserves a place in the suitcase of every parent who travels with a child--it is like having a caring peditrician traveling with you. Marlene Coleman values the importance of a family vacation and has created an outstanding guide that ranges from pre-planning for children's behavior patterns and matching accommodations with convenience all the way to providing easy-to-read sections addressing those challenging moments every parent dreads. She has simpified the reading by listing bulleted items as well as color-coded locators for specific categories of medical advice. This is one book that will serve the loving parent in many ways--you do not want to leave home without "Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel for Children!"

Must Have Book for Traveling with Children

This is an extremely well written book for parents who plan to travel with children. The author is a pediatrician and shows her knowledge not just of children, including different ages, but of how to make both the children and the parents(!) comfortable during travel. Much focus is put on preparation, with specific hints and tips on how best to prepare to anticipate & deal with issues that might occur. Safety precautions are also discussed in detail.We purchased this book before a family trip to Mexico and were thrilled with the level of specifics detailed, which allowed us to all travel comfortably and had a great time. We're very impressed with this book and will use it for future travel as well!

Safe and Sound, Healathy Travel with Children

This book is written with a great amount of caring and professional expertise and is an invaluable resource for every parent as well as for physicians who care for children and thier families. Susan Reynolds, MD (emergency physician and mother)