Traveling as a Family

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We asked our listeners what advice they have for harmonious family traveling. Here are our favorite tips they shared, plus a few of our own, from how early to get to the airport to hitting the top kid-friendly site in Paris! Amy and Margaret discuss: How to communicate effectively with your spouse before traveling Useful packing tips - here's the carry-on bag Amy loves Vacation scheduling advice How to include kids in planning vacations We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/⁠⁠ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, emotional labor, cognitive labor, summer camps, summer camps for kids, camps for kids, kids camps, kids summer activities, summer activities for kids, summer travel, summer vacation, summer, travel with kids, travel tips, tips for traveling with kids, vacation with kids, vacation tips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.0	The minute I show my passport, I have to hand it back to him. Like, I'm not allowed to handle
0:36.4	my own documents, my own boarding pass because I can't be trusted. What fresh hell. Laughing in the face of
0:43.2	motherhood. We make it even more complicated by introducing kids into the mix. With Margaret
0:49.1	Ables and Amy Wilson. Yeah, like, we could even suffer lunch. You can't even go in a restaurant without shoes on.
0:55.4	A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas.
0:58.6	So you don't have to.
1:00.0	You can overplan for kids to thinking that kids need to be kept busy.
1:07.2	Hello, everyone.
1:08.2	And welcome to What Fresh Hell laughing in the face of motherhood. This is Margaret.
1:12.0	And this is Amy. Today, we're talking about traveling as a family and how not to kill each other and how to make it as
1:20.3	peaceful as possible. Traveling as a family, if you must, as we like to say. Right. I think you must.
1:29.1	It's all I talk about when I bump into people these days. Oh, what are you doing this? You're doing this. You're doing this. You do intend
1:33.4	to have fun. These seem like good ideas when you put them on the calendar. You're making memories.
1:38.3	And then you have to go to the airport. And it doesn't feel so great. Yeah, traveling is definitely one of those things where you're like, hmm, was this a good idea?
1:47.1	I feel like I definitely want to travel when I think about traveling.
1:52.6	I'm like, I could spend my life someone I know went on a Viking cruise.
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