Revisit: Surviving Holiday Travel with Kids
Good Inside with Dr. Becky
Dr. Becky
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I remember the first time I got on a plane with two kids under the age of four. |
| 0:14.6 | And nobody told me what I think I probably needed to hear to be a little bit more prepared. And I think one of |
| 0:21.9 | the reasons nobody told me is I was one of the first ones of my group of friends to have kids. And so |
| 0:26.4 | actually people were saying, oh, it's going to be amazing. They're going to love the plane, |
| 0:30.9 | like all these things that I would seriously never say to someone. And I went in with the best |
| 0:37.0 | intentions. I mean my snack box that I packed, my coloring |
| 0:41.9 | books, my removable stickers. I was like, this is going to be four hours of fun. That's not what |
| 0:50.5 | happened. It's definitely not what happened. And I think part of the reason that |
| 0:55.8 | first flight was, I don't even know how to say it in a better way, just so awful, okay, |
| 1:02.5 | was how different the reality was from my expectations. I mean, there might have been a moment |
| 1:09.5 | of fun. I mean, I can't remember it. Maybe |
| 1:11.5 | there was one spark of a moment of that, but mostly it was difficult and totally different |
| 1:20.0 | from flying without children. Today, I want to talk about traveling with kids because it's |
| 1:26.9 | something that a lot of us do. |
| 1:29.2 | And while it is so challenging, there also are some things we can do to just make it a little bit easier. |
| 1:36.6 | And that's what I want to make sure I give you today. |
| 1:39.8 | I'm Dr. Becky, and this is Good Inside. |
| 1:43.0 | We'll be back right after this. |
| 1:59.0 | All right. So today we're going to talk about travel, and this is a topic that I received so many questions about, so many great questions. |
| 2:07.6 | So I'm going to go through three of them, and let's start by jumping into the first. |
| 2:14.2 | Okay, I'm feeling pretty nervous about our upcoming trip. It'll be our first time flying |
| 2:19.5 | with kids who are two and four. They do okay on car rides, but the idea of being on a plane |
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