I have been reading this book to K for the last one month to prep him up for his first plane ride.
Through this book, he now understands the concept of the baggage counter, the waiting lounge at the airport, where the pilot’s cockpit is located on the plane, getting seated on the plane and passengers putting on the seat belts. In fact, everyone around him has been prepping him up for his upcoming trip next week.
Through this book, he now understands the concept of the baggage counter, the waiting lounge at the airport, where the pilot’s cockpit is located on the plane, getting seated on the plane and passengers putting on the seat belts. In fact, everyone around him has been prepping him up for his upcoming trip next week.
I have even resorted to using this during K’s meal times when he refuses his food, “You need to eat, so that you will grow tall and get to sit in the aeroplane to go to Disneyland.” And when I get desperate, I will say, “If you don’t eat, you cannot grow tall and sit in the plane.” Yes, I have been quite a terrible mommy to have resorted to such threats just to get him to eat. Well, it has not really worked anyhow.
This topic of fussy toddler at meal time is another long-drawn-out issue, so I will not further digress from the topic of travel.
For our upcoming trip next week, I have put together a “aeroplane survival kit” for dh and myself, so as to ensure that the 4 hour plane ride to HK with our 20 month old toddler will be as painless as possible.
K is still in his machines/vehicles/trucks phase, so these should be able to keep him occupied for most of the plane ride. I also added some open-ended materials such as crayons, coloured pencils and a sketch pad, since K enjoys scribbling on paper. I have not shown K any of these things yet, so hopefully, his interest will be enhanced by its novelty.
Hope these will work…(fingers and toes crossed)
