TIHWD: Traveling with Kids
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
With summer around the corner, today we’re sharing our best tips and tricks for traveling with kids. From packing an extra pacifier (in a different suitcase!) to always, always, always packing plastic bags—these travel hacks are, of course, inspired by personal experience. We also share our favorite mantras, lessons we learned the hard way, and the travel MVPs we’ve added to our bags of tricks over the years. Plus, you’ll hear Ashlee and Katie gasp in disbelief at Jill’s gross-but-heartwarming story about something a stranger did for her at an airport.
This episode is sponsored by our favorite travel MVP of all time: SNACKS. (Just kidding. We have no sponsors. This episode is brought to you by our Patrons. As always.)
Whether you’re heading out for a long weekend or an international adventure this summer, we hope you have a memorable time! Don’t forget: just say no to supersize Gatorade.
For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out the stories at Coffee + Crumbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Jill, you're so cool. I don't like the organizer for the back of the seat. That's just nice one. |
| 0:06.0 | I've never even heard of this. I know. I'm like, I need to go Google that. Have you ever seen a cool person use an organizer? |
| 0:15.0 | You're so cool about your cargo pocket. |
| 0:22.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift and art not a science. |
| 0:26.0 | We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick together. |
| 0:32.0 | Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work. |
| 0:36.0 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged and loved. |
| 0:41.0 | This is the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello friends and welcome back to the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | Today, as we are rapidly approaching summer and many of us are doing our first significant travel since before the pandemic, we thought it was the perfect time to bring back the popular. |
| 1:00.0 | This is how we do episodes with what is hopefully a very timely. This is how we do traveling with kids. |
| 1:07.0 | I know that all of us have different histories with travel and even now everyone's family has different capacities to make travel happen. |
| 1:13.0 | So we're approaching today as a fun conversation about what we know, what we've learned the hard way and what seems to work well for us when it comes down to bringing our kids along with us when we head out. |
| 1:23.0 | So let's jump right in and start with this. |
| 1:26.0 | Do you guys have a mantra for traveling with your kids? |
| 1:30.0 | We do and it's just for simple words. |
| 1:34.0 | We are the thermostats. |
| 1:38.0 | Yes, you might this was an essay I wrote several years ago by the same title on Coffee and Crumbs, but this actually came from my husband. |
| 1:45.0 | Gosh, like four or five years ago when we took our kids from Spokane to Phoenix and we had only three kids at the time, but it was cannon who is our sweet little guy with autism. |
| 1:56.0 | It was his first flight and we were very unsure how it was all going to go. |
| 2:01.0 | I swear we prepared for every scenario we could think of, you know, what if he just decides he won't get on the airplane and throws his body down on the jet way. |
| 2:11.0 | What if he tries to run away? What if what if what if and it at one point in all of our preparing, which was really just code for catastrophizing. |
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