Baby Travel

Flying with babies is not the easiest thing in the world. But here are some suggestions that can make a baby travel air trip a little easier for yourself, your baby and the other passengers.

A good start is to choose a family friendly airline. Some are simply much better than others when it comes to looking after parents travelling with children. My number one recommendation is Singapore Airlines, they are simply accommodating both in the air and – if you need further assistance, on the ground.

You can request assistance at the airport if you are travelling in difficult circumstances like one parent and a baby. In my experience they have assisted by carrying my bags for me and fast-tracking me through the airport procedures in order to help make the ordeal a little less difficult.

Baby Travel Feeding

These flights will also supply baby foods meals if your baby is at that stage, you just have to organise these things at the booking in desk with their official and it will be organized for you.

When you are flying with a very small baby the air pressure in the cabin can cause your baby to feel uncomfortable and that could mean an unpleasant flight for everyone. The best way to keep you baby’s ears clear is to give them regular short feeds. This means simply a one or two minute feed every twenty minutes or so.

Many family-friendly airlines also can provide a sleeping cot for your baby. This can be a great relief to a parent who is getting a little cramp in the arms after holding a restless baby for the last three hours. Babies seem to sleep very comfortably in these cots which can hold up to 16 or 18 kgs of weight meaning that your 18 month old baby should be able to fit into it without any trouble.

The good thing is the engine’s constant rhythmic sound can usually help your baby sleep better.
Keeping a few familiar toys with you can calm your baby when they begin to feel restless in this unfamiliar environment. If you have a special musical toy or rattle with you (that wont disturb the other passengers too much – bearing in mind that a crying baby would disturb them more), this familiar sound could be all it takes to give you baby a sense of home.

Your voice can also add a great comfort to your baby whenever they feel perturbed by unfamiliar surroundings. So be prepared to sing some lullabys or tell a few versions of Jack and the Beanstalk in order to entertain your baby on the flight.

One final word, it is a word of warning. Traveling with a baby means not taking your eyes off them. Don’t let your baby out of your sight for half-a-second while traveling through the international airports.

Travel Well 

Please feel free to comment and tell us who you think are the best family airlines to travel with and why.

13 Ways for Young People to Look After Their Health

When girls grow up and are ready to go into the next stage of their life, motherhood, they suddenly realise that they should look after their health if they are to give birth to healthy children. Although that is a great idea, it is a thought that would have been even better to have had 10 years ago.

This is also where health of a baby applies as much to the man as it does to the woman. The healthy development of a person’s own body, male or female, will later be a factor in the children that they reproduce.

Even though the idea of eating well and keeping fit during pregnancy is important and is well publicised, your body should have been progressively building itself up throughout your teenage years through a healthy lifestyle. Being in good health pre-conceiving is the best way to ensure a smooth ride for the mother and the baby.

Obviously there will be many other factors to consider such as, genealogy, environment and even finances (relating to stress and the ability to make healthy choices). Not all of these things are controllable but to an extent we are able to adjust factors that can destroy our good health.

Some of those factors that can destroy our good health are:

• Smoking
• Excessive Alcohol
• Drug abuse
• Using products that contain toxins
• Chemical additives in our daily intake such as unnecessary vitamins and diet tablets
• Using badly preserved meats or spoiled foods
• Regular intake of pre-prepared foods
• Lack of meat products in diet
• Lack of vegetables products in diet
• Lack of good hygiene
• Lack of good food balance by not adhering to the food pyramid
• Lack of a sensible amount of daily sleep
• Lack of a good daily supply of clean water

In many cases these factors are controllable and as such they are a matter of choice. One thing that young people do not understand until they are past that point is that they are preparing a body that they will be using for the rest of their lives.

That simply means things thinking about things like; Correctly bending to lift heavy things; Drinking milk; Drinking a reasonable daily supply of water; Keeping sensibly chemical-free.

In this way a teenager will be preparing a body that is less prone to falling to weakness and is more likely to be able to fight off physical problems both in themselves and in the children produced by them in their future years through the healthy workings of their body’s own natural mechanisms.
It’s your body, look after it – no-body else will do it for you!

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Evangelia Zonnios is the developer of a website called Positive Family Initiative where families can find information to help them help their families. Register at the site for our ‘Positive Family’ ezine. Follow the link below and we’ll see you there: www.positive-family-initiative.com

Don’t give your children just anything to read…

Be Happy

Hello and welcome to Positive Family Initiative. 

We welcome you to sign up for our monthly and free ‘Positive Family’ ezine.  This is a great step to making your family a Positive Family.

Here at Positive Family Initiative, we are always looking for problems, not so that we can complain about them, but so that we can find some great advice for you and your families to benefit from.

We realise that worrying is unproductive when there is a problem and that vital energy should instead be used for solving the situation at hand.

Now that’s being positive : )

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Positive Famiy Initiative is a new site.  It was started up in February this year and it has a clear goal in mind… to help families. 

This is not just an idle statement, it is a clear goal.  So we want to find out what it is that you want to hear about and be informed about.  At the end of this message you will find a contact link where you can give comments.

Parenting is not such an easy thing, in fact the longer you do it the more you realise the consequences that each and every action that you have made as a parent counts, so we will always have a parenting section in our ezines.

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Newsworthy Expression

You will hear about new thoughts on living, parenting and finding innovative and modern ideas that ‘could’ improve your life.

A New Law that Could Change Your Life Forever

In recent times people have been talking more and more about a new outlook on life called ‘The Law of Attraction’.  No, it does not have anything to do with finding a partner for life, it is more about connecting with life itself and creating your own wellbeing through the actions that you send out into the world.

Another way this might be described is you sow what you reap.  Far fetched as this may seem to some it is making an impressionable difference to many people in their everyday lives.  With this new understanding of the balance of ourselves within our life, ‘the laws of attraction’ appear to give us a say in how we want to live our lives and how to find a way to gain into our lives the things that we desire.

In sport of today, many superstars have their own coach as well as their own psychology mentor.  One of the methods that is very common in this area of training is imagining their final achievement, winning the final.  It is said that through this imagining one is able to draw those things of desire into one’s own life.

Certainly it is easy to see that there is a balance in life that a person may be able to relate to and connect with but then you may ask, if it were so easy why is it that not many people do achieve their dreams?  Well perhaps,as with any type of faith, whether that faith is for religion or simply faith in yourself, you have to really believe in it to gain its full potential.

The Opposition

Of course such controversial practice will draw out the skeptics and there are plenty of those on the subject.  Some people say that it is likend to the ‘faith healers’ who allow you to believe yourself well. 

One website blatantly calls the whole thing a scam used to entice the innocent to spend their own money signing up for an MLM scheme Googled in its many disguises.  <br>For these marketers have prepared advertisements involving the Law of Attraction theory and prey on those longing to have a life free from financial burdens and stress and offer them the wonderful things shown in the images on their advertisements.  Surely a callous act of cheating the needy.

Conclusion on this topic

Everyone has a mind to make up for themselves.  Nobody should act on the words of another person without checking up using their own resources.  This way no one is responsible for your actions but yourself, it is the surest way to feel comfortable with what you chose to do.

The Law of Attraction is certainly an attractive thought.  If indeed it were possible that we could change our lives in such a simple way there would be no harm in trying, but perhaps we should not give up our day jobs just yet.

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Parenting Teens

Surely one of life’s most testing times, being a parent to a teenager is something that we realise we are just ‘not born with’.  Nevertheless, everything is learnable so that is our hope as parents.

Once your child has past a certain point the teaching is basically finished.  That is the time where all of the experiences and examples that you have brought your child with start to come into play because now they will start to put together in their mind what ‘they’ think is right.

Now a change must take place in order for you to be able to communicate with your teenager, that change is about in what light you see your child and how much you trust them in making good decisions.  Although there will be many times when you totally disagree, there may be times when you have to let them burn their fingers a little to realise rights and wrongs for themselves.

Having said that, it is also true that a young person of 16 or 17 does not have enough experience in life to make life-changing decisions, so you would hope that they would feel inclined to discuss their thoughts with you before going ahead and making any drastic moves.

This does not mean that you misuse this opportunity to communicate with your child and put your foot down.  If you do it will be to your detriment as your child is then less likely to discuss important issues with you.

A discussion with your teenager must begin to be a discussion with another adult, or your child will sense that you do not have confidence in their judgement and they may even begin lose confidence in themselves.  This is even more so if they have a high esteem for you, and for that reason it is important that you respect that they have a point of view.

If you do not agree with their point of view a discussion could enlighten you to where that opposing point of view came from and give you more of an opportunity to explain things further.  But if you are closed minded you will not even get that far.

Growing up happens on both sides and adolescence is not a bed of roses on either side of the fence, so by giving and taking a little, you will give your teenager the best example of doing the same.

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Evangelia Zonnios is the creator of a website called Positive Family Initiative where families can find information to help them help their families.  Register at the site for our great ezine ‘Positive Family’,  follow the link below and we’ll see you there:
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PS: Don’t read just anything to your children

 

 

Start Write with Art

Reading and writing are two essential skills to master in order to make life liveable.  Without your child developing these two life skills they are dependant on other people to help you through almost any area of life.

What You Can Do To Help Your Child With Reading?

Even before children begin school their mind is developing.  A great way to help your child to absorbing information easier is by creating plenty of activity that stimulates their mind.  One possible route to this mental stimulation is through art.

Art plays an enormous part in a child’s learning abilities.  As previously mentioned it encourages thought and excitement which has been shown to increase the brains mental activity.  This activity actually leaves a trace that remains in the brains network for future use.  In other words, through providing stimulating information to the child a new track is laid in the brain where it did not exist before.  This new mental track is now a permanent fixture in the brain and will be used to absorb other information further down the line, thereby increasing the brains ease of absorbing new information.

 

Imagination Makes Words Into Pictures

Creativity is also great for improving the imagination.  When a child is learning a word or being read a book, their imagination will put this information together more readily and make sense of it as they subconsciously create images of the information in their mind.  Involving multiple senses in absorbing information increases a person’s ability to remember it.

 

Fine Motor Skills

The most obvious benefit of using art to help in a child’s development is to do with fine motor skills.  For those of you that do not have a child in school yet, you may not be familiar with this term; it simply means precise muscle control (the sort used in drawing a fine straight line).  By developing your child’s fine motor skills you aid them in learning the skills of writing.  It is very likely that a child that has been exposed to art during his preschool days is ready and able to copy and trace his new letters with less trouble than his peers.

 

Enjoyment

 

Finally the best part, the fun.  That is what kids love most, and art certainly keeps them in touch with that side of things.  Actually producing a piece of art is a great achievement for a child and gives them a great deal of satisfaction.  Children oftern feel a sense of pride in what they have created and with the right words you can really boost up their self-confidence which can carry through to other areas of their life and study.

 

 

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Childrens Poems

Take a journey through the

Dreamer’s Garden

Treat your children to the wonderful world of poetry in the Dreamer’s Garden. 

This book of family poems has something for everyone to enjoy.  

Let your sensations guide you through this passage

of space and time. 

 

What would it be like to have the world to yourself?                                                                  

Where do I go in my daydreams?

Poor Dilly Dolly, what did she do to the the brolly?

 

Every poem is someone’s favourite. 

Which will be yours? 

 

An Example of a page from the book