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Fly safely with your baby:
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Airport Safety when Flying with Kids
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It is critically important that you maintain
the safety of your children at all times when in airport terminals.
Keep them close and watch after them. Never allow yourself to become
distracted from that responsibility. Airport terminals can be very busy
and it would be easy for a child to wander and get lost.
Should your child
actually become lost, it will be important that you have already
considered that possibility and have taken steps to enable airport
staff, or someone else finding your child, to reunite you with your
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If your child is old enough to
understand, you can talk to him about asking for help from someone that
works at the airport. You can also make sure that your child is
carrying identifying information.
One way to make sure that your lost child is
identifiable is to pin information onto the back of your child’s shirt
or to place a business card or piece of paper in your child’s pocket or
shoe. Pinning to the back of the shirt is best because the child will
have no ability to remove and lose the identifying information. It will
also be easy for someone to find the information if pinned in such a
way. Information to consider writing on the card or paper includes:
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Child’s name
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Parents’ names
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Home address
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Cell phone numbers
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Emergency contact’s phone numbers
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Flight information: destination,
terminal, gate, flight times.
If
your child is lost and then taken into airport custody with the above
information pinned to him, you will have improved your chances of being
reunited quickly.
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travel tips and advice that has been gathered from families who have
faced the same challenges before them.
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Flying Rugrats
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The Parent-to-Parent Guide
to Traveling on Airplanes
with Infants and Toddlers
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travels with kids?
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Quick Tips
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Talk with older children about
what to do if they get lost.
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Pin contact and flight
information to child's shirt.
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Make sure kids carry copies of
their itinerary.
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Watch your children closely in
crowds!
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The FlyingRugrats.com
Flying Kids Mission
As parents, we are
responsible for molding our precious babies into well rounded
adults who have an appreciation for the variety of opportunities
that they have available to them as they grow and develop as
individuals. Exposing children to varying geographical
locations and cultures around the world is an important teaching
method that many parents have the option to use for developing
generations of culturally aware future leaders who have
childhood experiences that help them understand and personally
relate to global issues. It is the mission of Flying Rugrats to arm parents with information about flying
with children, toddlers or infants strategies in an effort to
dispel fear or apprehension about family travel so that families
may travel freely and better educate our future world citizens
through positive travel experiences.
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