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Viewing Kind Kari and Helpful HannaKind Kari and Helpful Hanna
By karipearls
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Travel is stressful, especially when it involves children - whether they are your own or the children of other passengers. In this article, Kari Anderson provides a few carefully chosen travel tips based on her own experiences. Travel puts stress on most folks ... yes, it's fun, but waiting in airports, sitting in crowded airplanes, and jet lag add tension to travel ... and those things are usually all unavoidable. So, why not decide to be kind and helpful? We know the extra stress we personally feel, and that should make us aware that everyone else around us also feels the tension. Are you sitting by a young mother with an infant? Are there empty seats around you? Could you possibly give up your seat next to her so she can have the needed room for her little one? I once did that, much to the amazement of the flight attendants, who kindly offered me an upgraded seat. Wow ... what a pleasant surprise. Nothing can be more annoying than stubborn adults who won't move a seat or two over to give room for a family to sit together. I witnessed this once and I could hardly believe it! Even after the pleas of several flight attendants, they would not move for anything. These adults were rude. They ended up adding tension to all of us in that part of the plane. Are you sitting my a crying baby? Well ... haven't your babies cried at the wrong times too? Think about having a little patience and understanding. This happened to me once when going from Baku to Istanbul. A grouchy lady told the young mother, 'Anlamadim!', which means, 'I don't understand!' Well, as a mother of seven children, I DID understand and said, 'Anladim!', which means 'I understand!' We continued the flight thinking of all sorts of ways of entertaining the youngster, making it an enjoyable flight - and I even made a friend. About the Author: Read more about my trips at Globe-Hoppers.com. Article source: 111 Travel Directory: Triple1.com (triple one dot com) More free articles: 1st Rate Articles - 1stRateArticles.com |
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