Travel Tips – For Families Small With Kids
Are you considering bringing the whole family with you or go on a trip with kids? Find out more travel tips you can use while traveling.
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Travel Tips – For Families Small With Kids
Marina K. Villatoro is an expat living with her family and traveling in Central America (http://travelexperta.com). Packing for a trip with kids can be daunting, but with a list it’s easy (http://travelexperta.com/2011/06/49-essential-things-for-packing-your-kids.html).
Are you considering bringing the whole family with you or go on a trip with kids? Find out more travel tips you can use while traveling.
a. Traveling With Small Kids For The First Time? When you become a parent you probably think it’s the end of your traveling adventures on a trip. But it doesn’t have to be like that. I mean, yes you will have to be more careful but it doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. What you have to know for sure is that you won’t be able to go to and from the touristic destinations as fast as you used to. So keep in mind that kids need some rest and it can be stressful for them to be moving around all the time. What you can do is to limit the number of places to see. That is why finding a hotel that is in a central location from the places you want to visit and to come back to it at least once a day to rest is also a good idea. This way kids won’t be worn out that fast.
b. How To Relax When Traveling With Kids? As a traveling mom I can’t help asking myself this question every time we are about to go on vacation “What happens if I lose my child?” To avoid being stressed, visit a local hospital before you travel and ask if they will make one of those plastic bracelets for each of your children. Then you can put whatever information you’d like on a slip of paper and insert it into the bracelet. If you’re traveling to/through foreign countries, you may want to put the information in the native language of the countries you are planning to visit.
c. Kid Essential: I’m a freak. I’ll admit it! I’m ridiculously paranoid my son is either going to get lost or kidnapped. So I’m always extra cautious. Thankfully my son is at the age where he can understand what to do if we are separated. But sometimes screaming: “MAMA, PAPA” in a crowded location doesn’t do the trick.
-my solution is to get an extra powerful whistle! If explained properly they will understand the importance of this essential traveling accessory.
d. More Traveling with Kids: This tip might sound super obvious, but I find my husband constantly forgetting to do this easy but insanely necessary act: Ask my son before we head off in car, bus, or train if he has to PEE!
Ask my son before we head off in car, bus, or train if he has to PEE! And, of course, 10 minutes into the drive, stuck in traffic somewhere my son screams, ‘I have to do Pee Pee!” So take my advice: Not only ask them if they have to pee, tell them they aren’t going on trip unless they pee beforehand.
e. Flying with Kids Can Be Fun! Before child I remember my flying time was full of catching up with my journal, or reading a good book, or just plain sleeping.
Now, I have to have to be extra careful or the trip above the clouds can turn into a true disaster not only by driving me nuts, but everyone seated around me. I came up with a great adventure: I do is I STOCK UP on cheap toys. In Central America you can easily find toys between $1-2 at local markets and stores that are frequented by the natives.
If you’re flying from the States, Europe, Canada, Australia or other Western countries there are plenty $1 type shops. So go nuts! Splurge! Imagine what you can do with $20 bucks.
Wrap them up in gift paper and present them as gifts! That will give you more time to relax.
f. Let Them Get Wet! I know whenever I travel anywhere with my son and there is water around he will be aching to get wet! I mean, it doesn’t matter if he’s in winter clothes, he’ll just jump right in and get soaked. I’m personally not a great lover of water and never understood the insane attraction.
However, after traveling around with my friends who didn’t care so much about their kids getting wet from their hats (heads) to their sneakers (feet) because they always had an extra set of clothes and shoes, plus plenty of plastic bags to put away all their wet clothes I decided to do the same.
The best part is that my boy thinks his mom is the da bomb!
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