Family Travel, Part 1: Creating A Home Away From Home When You’re Traveling With Kids

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Taking small kids on a trip is daunting: Where and how will everyone sleep? Can a rental cottage be baby-proofed? How will little ones used to a schedule and the structure of home deal with time zone changes and grandparents whose house rules differ from what they’re used to? In Part One of our three-part series on family travel, Sarah looks back on her extensive experience traveling with babies, toddlers, and kids–especially trips to the grandparents’ and in-laws’–and shares what worked, what didn’t, and what she’d do differently.

This episode is part of our 3-part series Travel Stories To Inspire Your Next Family Adventure (Whenever The Time Comes). Listen to the whole series from this page.

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Sarah has spoken at length about air travel with small kids
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0:00.0	Hi I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the mom hour.
0:22.5	Hey everyone and welcome to the mom hour. I am Megan Francis here with Sarah
0:27.1	Powers. Hey Sarah. Hey Megan. I'm super excited about the series we're doing. I am
0:32.9	too and I hope it's exciting to everyone who's finding us in their feed today by
0:37.2	surprise. But we are actually talking about traveling with kids for the next few
0:43.1	days. There's gonna be three bonus episodes in your feed and we're taking kind
0:48.0	of a slightly different take on travel every day. So I'm really excited about
0:52.3	today's because I'm gonna get to kind of interview you Sarah and talk about
0:56.8	taking little kids on a trip and just keeping all the details taken care of
1:01.4	like making that home away from home feeling that I know was super important to
1:05.4	you when you were traveling with littles and definitely as we kind of come into
1:09.4	this new world where we're gonna have travel open up to us maybe a little bit
1:14.2	I hope soon or even just thinking about travel like we're gonna be thinking
1:18.1	about things that maybe we haven't thought about in a year or longer and some of
1:22.9	you listening weren't even moms when this all started so the it's just
1:26.7	crazy to think about like some of our listeners are brand new moms who are
1:29.8	you know now have their year old baby and are thinking oh my gosh like I
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