Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children [Paperback]

Dr. Marlene M. Coleman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2003

Safe and Sound provides the necessary preventive and proactive approach to assist parents in ensuring that their children--beginning in infancy and lasting through adolescence--come back from any travels safe and healthy.

This book takes parents by the hand and walks them through the various aspects of travel planning and preparation in a variety of situations. It is designed to make parents feel as if they have a pediatrician assisting them before the trip and traveling with them on the trip to help them over the rough spots. It even provides specific guidance regarding the types of issues and at which points in travel planning the parents should be in touch with their child's pediatrician.

More than anything, Safe and Sound helps parents in preparing for known and unforeseen circumstances--making it much more likely that they will bring their children home happy, healthy, and alive.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Safe and Sound will assuage every parent's anxieties about heading out with kids in tow, allowing everyone to enjoy both the destination AND the journey. This invaluable guide is truly chicken soup for the road!"
--Steve Zikman, author of The Power of Travel: A Passport to Adventure,
Discovery & Growth and co-author of Chicken Soup for the Traveler's Soul

From the Back Cover

Travel can be a terrific experience for any child, unless they become hurt or ill. Within these pages, Dr. Marlene M. Coleman - a board-certified pediatrician with more than thirty years of experience - clearly outlines preventative, proactive advice to help you plan and enjoy any outing with children, be it a day trip, a week's drive, or a flight abroad.
With this book in hand, you can prepare for both known and unforeseen circumstances - making it much more likely that your children will enjoy and return from their travels happy, healthy, and safe.
You get expert, up-to-the-minute information on: travel planning and preparation for a variety of situations; security measures to safeguard your child; guidelines for staying healthy while traveling; specific advice for a variety of travel-related illnesses and injuries; general suggestions for successful trips with children; tips on traveling while pregnant or with special-needs children, planning grandparent-grandchild trips, and more!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 1st edition (March 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762726911
• ISBN-13: 978-0762726912
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,430,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take your pediatrician with you, November 3, 2003

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Patricia Elyse Terrell (Newport Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children (Paperback)

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!"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Have Book for Traveling with Children, September 10, 2003

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A. Adkisson (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children (Paperback)

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!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Safe and Sound, Healathy Travel with Children, May 8, 2003

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Susan Reynolds, MD (Pacific Palisades, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children (Paperback)

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)