Flight Trauma

We are going to France in 2 weeks, flying with Easyjet. We did this 2 years ago and the flight home was late at night so my son was tired and the noise of the plane engines really upset him. Previously we have been to Oz with him 3 planes each way and no problems whatsoever. He is adament he isnt going and gets upset when we talk about it. I've tried all sorts of reasoning with him, bribery, talking about how much fun we had there last time and nothing seems to be swaying him at all. I don't want to end up with a meltdown at the airport, leaving him at home with grandparents or wasting the £600 spent on flights to drive instead! We also have 2 younger children who are really excited about going. My son is 7 years old. Any ideas anyone??/

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JumpyNewall over 12 years ago

Thank you
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tandemum over 12 years ago

Our Sennheissers are very old and the nearest model today is the PXC 250-II. They are expensive but have lasted 8 years. I think the only other helpful suggestion I can make is that the on ear headphones tend to make the boys' ears very hot but the in ear are uncomfortable after a short time.
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JumpyNewall over 12 years ago

Thanks very much for that. What type of Sennheisers do you have? There are lots of different ones in the range. Are any better for kids than others? Thanks
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tandemum over 12 years ago

Hi JumpyNewall,
I would suggest noise cancelling headphones. My husband has a pair of Sony noise cancelling headphones and we have had Sennheiser ones for our two sons. They work by recording the background noise and playing it back out of phase which reduces the noise to a much lower level. You can also plug in mp3 player, ipad, nintendo ds to mask the remaining sound. They work on any mechanical background sound but still leave voice audible so good on trains, planes, cars etc. We have used them with both our sons (both have asd) and they loved them.
Hope this helps.
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