Real Moms Share Their Best Family Travel Advice: Episode 356

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

From packing and organization to sleep arrangements and laundry, there are a million little things that can make or break a family trip. This latest episode in our travel series is a collection of our community’s best tips and cleverest hacks for traveling with kids of all ages. We cover what to bring, where to put everything (including your people!), efficient strategies, and how to stress less. Sarah talks about moving hotel furniture, and Meagan shares a surprising hideaway to sneak in some alone time. Whether you’re boarding a flight or loading up for a road trip, you’ll discover some brilliant, mom-tested ideas to try here. Enjoy!

LINKS MENTIONED:

Read all our listeners’ tips in this post from our Facebook community
Right before the pandemic, we aired this episode: Planning Travel and Family Vacations
For travel parenting tips, check out our House Rules for Travel & Vacation episode
Water Wow books are the best!
Our community loves the ease of scheduling Shipt, Instacart, and other grocery pick-up/delivery services before arrival
BabyQuip is a popular baby equipment rental service
Packing cubes can be helpful for staying organized
Get more tips, how-to guides, and episodes in our Family Travel Hub

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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. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 356 of the mom
0:26.5	hour. I am Sarah Powers here with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hi Sarah. Before we
0:31.8	start recording this, I just have to say that I hear birds tripping in the
0:36.3	background. Oh my gosh. At your house. And I don't know if it'll come through
0:40.9	into like into the episode itself, but I'm so jealous because we it's March.
0:45.5	And we're just in Michigan, not quite at like rockest birds tripping
0:50.9	outside the window just yet. And it's such a long story. I'm sure for you
0:54.7	that like it does that like it brings up spring in your whole body. Like your
0:58.7	whole sensory awareness. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I just like I leaned forward a
1:02.5	little bit because we're so close. We're so close. And some days like if it's
1:05.8	sunny, they'll all hear them outside. And then they just kind of go quiet
1:09.2	again. So we're in my silent spring right now. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. So
1:14.2	anyway, we would all like to be in a tropical vacation. That wouldn't
1:17.2	be. I bet we would. Okay. Well, listeners, you probably have realized we're
1:22.4	leaning in on some travel episodes this month. Not forever. We'll be sure to
1:27.4	mix in some non-travel stuff too. But on Sunday, Megan, you and I talked about
1:32.2	solo travel, which was really fun. Like kind of fantasized about getting back
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