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Article #149: Are We There Yet? A Travel Guide For Parents

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You've all heard of the horror stories of for small children as it reinforces their
family trips. No matter how long you are learning the alphabet.
staying at your chosen destination, when 3. Keep Things Novel
traveling with children the longest part You might want to buy some new toys or
of the trip can be your journey there. games for your children. A new book,
Kids get fidgety, even aggressive during especially, can last an entire trip if
especially long car rides or airplane your child loves to read. Just be
rides. You will need plenty of activities careful, however, as reading while in a
to keep their minds busy. car can, for some people, make them feel
1. Keep Them Busy nauseous.
Chances are, unless you are going to a 4. Babies & Flights
very kid-centric location, your children Lot's of parents wonder whether or not
will be very bored. Try purchasing travel they should bring their baby's car seat
games such as tiny versions of chess or with them when they go on a plane. The
checkers. There are also plenty of low question to ask is are you going to be
cost games you can play in a car like eye travelling by car at your destination? If
spy or 20 questions. Having a variety of so they you'll need to bring the car seat
games and activities to keep their anyway. If you are not travelling by car
children occupied and keep their minds and forget or decide not to bring your
off of the journey is always a good idea. car seats, you can sometimes rent them.
2. For Long Car Rides In general however it's a better idea to
Keep in mind when designing an itinerary take the car seat with you. Another tip
of games that children typically get is to give your baby a bottle while the
tired of playing the same game twice. For plane is taking off to calm them down and
your benefit, you can design games that prevent your baby's ears from popping.
take a long time to complete. For 5. Strollers
example, you can play the ABC game. In Let's face it even tiny babies feel heavy
this game, you have to find all the after a while in your arms, and don't
letters of the alphabet from signs, forget about toddlers who all of the
licence plates, etc. Letters can only be sudden tell you they can't walk any
found outside the car and must be longer (often they tell you this at the
verified by others in the car to make most inconvenient times). A baby stroller
sure that they are not just making up solves these problems. The great thing is
signs. As an added challenge and to that most infant car seats snap onto a
prevent cheating, you can remove licence travel system stroller. This makes it
plates from the possible things you can both simple and easy to take both the
get letters from. It can be quite stroller and the baby seat along on
difficult to find the letters Q,U,V,X,Y trips. The other option is a lightweight
and Z. To keep things interesting you can stroller that has a built in carrying
make it a race and whoever finishes the strap, that's comfortable and easy to
alphabet first wins. This is a great game haul around.






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