10 Tips for Preparing a Medical Kit for Travel
A small, customized medical kit can be a real lifesaver when traveling with children. Never leave home without it. 1. Buy or assemble a first aid kit. This is not the same as a medical kit. A first aid...
View Article10 Tips for Traveling and Living Overseas
Children make great travelers. They are inquisitive, fun and, when motivated, adaptable and inexhaustible. Time spent overseas, whether a week in Paris or a year in a developing country, helps enrich...
View Article10 Tips For Motion Sickness
If you’ve never been seasick it’s only because you haven’t encountered the right storm, say veteran sailors. Worse than being seasick yourself is dealing with children who are, say parents. 1. Call it...
View Article10 Tips For Preventing Malaria
10 Tips For Preventing Malaria Every year thousands of travelers, including many children, return from the tropics with a souvenir they did not bargain for: malaria, a disease that can almost always be...
View Article10 Tips For Staying Healthy At Sea
A vacation at sea offers families the best of all worlds: seeing foreign countries without the hassle of constant packing; supervised age-appropriate activities, lots of other children and, should you...
View Article10 Tips For Teenagers Going to Mexico for Spring Break
Tens of thousands of American teenagers travel to resorts throughout Mexico over Spring Break each year, says the U.S. State Department. While the vast majority enjoys their vacation without incident,...
View ArticleDr. Karl Neumann’s Kids Travel Doc 10 Tips: The Modern Medical Kit for Family...
The Modern Medical Kit for Family Travel A small, customized medical kit can be a real lifesaver when traveling with children. Never leave home without one. 1. Technology is the new first aid. Cell...
View ArticleFamilies/Overseas travel/Medications Part 2 of 2
This is Part 2 of a two part series. To read Part 1, please click here. You need not be under suspicion of possessing narcotics to be hassled by security and customs inspectors at airports. Families...
View ArticleDr. Neumann’s KidsTravelDoc 10 Tips: Leaving Children at Home Alone
Should parents take vacations with their kids – or from their kids? Family vacations expose kids to new experiences, strengthens family unity and build memories for the future. But for many parents,...
View ArticleDr. Neumann’s KidsTravelDoc 10 Tips: Appropriate drinks for active children
Sports drinks. Energy drinks. Electrolyte solutions. Carbonated drinks. Milk. What is healthy, what is not? Young children and adolescents participating in non-competitive play do not benefit from the...
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