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You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.

Hey there, Andy Taggle here in for Mary El Segara.

As amazing as it is to travel to new places, and to have the time and money to do that, it's also a lot of work.

You know what makes travel even more complicated?

Taking a small child along with you.

Historically, babies and toddlers are not very good travel partners to say the least. They're having packers, they don't communicate well, or at appropriate volumes.

Any diaper changes, they get overwhelmed easily. To say nothing of getting on a flight.

I think just about every parent dreads the thought of a plane ride with a screaming baby.

And I am first in that line.

So here at Life Kit, we wanted to know.

How can you enjoy traveling with a young child?

We asked one such traveling parent about this reporter and producer Emily Signer.

Hey Emily!

Hi Andy, yes, my husband and I made the ambitious and risky decision to take a trip to Japan when my son was eight months old.

Wow!

Emily, that is ambitious. How did that go?

It was actually really fun, but I think part of me has been

scared to do it again because I'm worried that it was just a fluke that maybe next

time it'll be totally terrible. So I wanted to talk to people who've done travel a bunch with kids and get

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