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April 27, 2015
Whether you are traveling for business or adventure, you need to consider your safety as a priority because you can only live once, and you shouldn’t waste time making mistakes.
There are several things that can put you in danger and thus you must avoid them. If you want to travel and stay safe during your trip, the following tips will benefit you when choosing a hotel.
1. Before your trip, copy your airline tickets, passports and other identification material, credit cards, and other relevant documents. Retain a copy of these items in a safe place.
2. When you travel, choose a room that has modern electronic locks installed in the rooms. Most of these electronic locks change the combination automatically with every new guest reservation, and there is little chance that someone can have a duplicate key to your room. In case you lose or misplace your key, request for a replacement immediately from the management.
3. Check for fire sprinklers and smoke detectors in the guest rooms, hallways and conference rooms. If these are not installed in every room, they should at least be installed in the hallway.
4. The guest rooms should have a telephone that can make outside calls. But guest phones placed in lobbies and hallways should not be allowed to make direct calls to the rooms. And if anyone would like to call the room, the person should ask for the guest name and not the room number.
5. Ensure that the locks on the windows and adjoining rooms are secure
6. The hotel grounds, parking structures, and hallways should be well-lit.
7. If there are elevators in the parking garage, they should not lead directly to the guest floors. Instead, they should lead to the lobby.
8. Ask if the hotel personnel are trained for guest security and if they are available on request as escorts to the rooms and parking lot.
9. Check whether the hotel is located in an area with high crime rate, especially when you are traveling overseas. You can find this information at the US Embassy Resident Security Officers in the destination country. They can also alert you to which areas of the city to avoid.
10. When you arrive at the hotel, remain with your luggage until it is safely brought into the lobby.
11. When you are checking into the hotel, watch your purse and luggage keenly.
12. Observe the lobby well. If it is very busy, thieves often take advantage of such a situation to steal your property and so you need to have a third eye on you.
13. If you are staying in old-style rooms with the guest room doors that still use the traditional metal key, observe how the hotel handles the keys. If you find a pile of keys lying on the front desk, then probably the hotel is not very keen about your security.
But if the hotel uses electronic key cards, this should not be a huge concern to you. If the room numbers are embossed on the metal key and they are lying around carelessly, you may have something to worry about.
When you travel to a destination, especially if you are new, you need to be assured that you are safe. Most hotels will take many measures to make sure that you are safe.
But if the above checklist is not entirely taken care of, you may have to reconsider your reservations and move to the next hotel. It is better to be safe than sorry. If you are looking for good hotel deals, remember to check Hipmunk.com for affordable hotels in Paris.
This post was provided by Fiona Moriarty of Hipmunk, a travel website that helps you to locate the best deals on transportation, accommodations, and more.
April 22, 2015
Being sick is no one’s idea of fun, and kids have it particularly bad when they’re feeling under the weather. Children, in general, have fairly poor and undeveloped immune systems, so when they’re sick they truly are sick. Unsurprisingly this means they very frequently look to their parents for as much care and support as they can get.
Comforting your sick child is a very good way to help promote recovery, and ensure that your child grows stronger from having suffered from their illness. Comforting sick children is not exactly rocket science, but it can be easy to mistake potentially damaging hearsay for sound pediatric advice. Be smart, be patient, and above all else be perceptive, and you can help your child feel as right as rain again within no time at all.
Step One: Keep Calm, Keep Collected
Your child looks up to you. We don’t just mean that in an admiring sense, either – your child looks to you as a way of knowing how to act in a given situation. When you project certain cues and signals, they will pick up on them and act accordingly. Given how unpleasant and stressful illness can be on their own, make sure you’re especially guarded about how you behave around your kids when they’re sick. The important thing, always, is to remain calm and stay positive.
Think about it, if you act worried then your child will quickly become worried, themselves. After all, if you’re worried, then something must really be wrong — you’re the grown-up. Meanwhile, if you act as though everything’s normal and perfectly fine, your child will at least be reassured by the routine and convinced that, however crummy they may feel in the moment, things will eventually be okay.
Just keep smiling, keep cool and don’t fuss over your child too much. Never act like the sky is falling and don’t coddle your child. Doing so will not make them feel any better.
Don’t Be Too Distant Either
Remember, you’re your child’s anchor. So don’t be unsympathetic to how they feel in an attempt to make things look normal. While you should never make a fuss over your child’s illness, you shouldn’t pretend that they aren’t feeling unwell either. Make sure they receive the comfort and attention they need to maintain a feeling of security. Lay with them in bed and read them a story as they rest or have them lay on the couch in the living room while you work on the day’s chores. Be on hand to fetch them things they want or need as well, most especially fluids.
Let them set the rules about their rest time too. Kids know when they’re tired and when they’re not, so if they seem to want to get up and do things, you shouldn’t necessarily stop them. Keeping them cooped up in bed or on the couch will probably just make them moody as well as ill. Do keep a close eye on them, and if they seem to be tottering on their feet, escort them straight back to get some rest. Of course, there will be times where you just have to be elsewhere in the house. If it helps, give them things to distract themselves with in this time. Put on the TV and let them watch cartoons, or give them a mobile phone and let them play games. The distraction will help the time pass, and take their mind off their discomfort.
A Spoonful of Sugar
Medicine seldom tastes very nice, and naturally your sick child will resent having to take it. To help them medicine go down, try to find ways to make it more bearable. If you can, try to mask the taste with some sugar or fruit juice. You can also work pills or medicines into soft food such as yoghurt or rice pudding, but you must make sure the child eats it all to get the dose.
Keep yourself aware and informed of the locations of your nearest hospitals and pediatric urgent care centers such as those found at nightlitepediatrics.com. As with any other illness, if it does not improve after a few days, seek medical attention.
Christian Mills is a freelance writer and family man who contributes insights into child care and advice on issues affecting the home.
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