Planning Travel And Family Vacations: Episode 251

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Is everyone you know planning a family vacation, or does it sometimes just feel that way? In our experience, there are “vacations” that feel like a lot of work, and other ways to spend school holidays that feel more relaxing and don’t break the bank. In today’s episode (Part One of Two in a series all about planning family travel) we’re talking about what goes into planning a family vacation you’ll actually enjoy–from knowing yourself as a mom and being realistic about the ages of your kids, to finding the sweet spot between getting a break from the responsibilities of home and over-extending yourself on the road.

We also have some frank talk about the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and how its arrival on the scene has (or has not) impacted our own travel planning this spring. Join us!

LINKS MENTIONED:

Sarah likes this NPR comic for helping lead conversations with kids about COVID-19, and a listener suggested this article from PBS
Our Spotify playlists are a fun way to go back in the archives and listen by topic or theme! Our March playlists are Home, Life & Time Management, and For My Friend, About To Be A Mom

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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 little to
0:05.7	grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that
0:10.5	motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement.
0:14.0	And remind you that it's really all going to be okay.
0:16.4	We're not experts. We're parents who've been there.
0:18.6	We're not perfect. We're real.
0:20.2	Welcome to the mom hour.
0:21.6	Hi everyone and welcome to episode 251 of the Mom Hour.
0:27.0	I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis.
0:29.7	Hey Megan.
0:30.4	Hey Sarah.
0:31.6	So we are talking about family travel both this week and next week. We're going to do a
0:36.0	little two-part series and we have had this plan for a while. It is getting closer to people
0:41.6	thinking about spring break and then looking ahead to
0:44.2	summer and we've done lots of family travel episodes in the past but the angle
0:48.1	we're kind of taking this time is thinking about how we plan for quote-quote vacations and we're going to get into why
0:55.4	why travel and vacation are not always the same thing right the thing that looks like a
1:00.1	vacation may not feel like one and sometimes you might be able to create a vacation feeling without you
1:05.8	know getting on an airplane so we're going to get into all of that today and and I'm
1:09.7	excited me too I know that this is we've talked a little bit Sarah about how it can feel kind of like I don't know like everyone's going on these big trips so I'm kind of excited about us distilling that and I also have to say I just got back from a trip
1:23.5	last night and there's been so much talk about coronavirus in the news and on the
1:28.4	socials that I was kind of curious how my trip was going to play out.
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