Hi, this is Janet Lansbury, welcome to Unruffled.

Today I'm going to do something a little bit different.

I'm going to try to respond to some of the many questions that I receive around travel with children,

whether that be car rides or plane travel, taking trips to see relatives or just for fun.

I realize there are a lot of articles out there on the web already,

but what I have to share that might be a little different is an awareness of our child's perspective

so that we can have reasonable expectations and therefore have a trip with less crying from us or from our children

and hopefully more joy.

I couldn't decide whether to make this a written post or a podcast.

Obviously I ended up deciding on a podcast, but the written post,

which will be the transcript of this podcast on my website, JanetLansbury.com,

will include links to some of the suggestions that I'm going to give you and also a video of an adorable little girl

who is using one of my recommendations.

So you may want to check out the transcript as well, is what I'm saying.

So first of all, my husband and I decided to take our first daughter to Europe at seven months old.

There were many times during the trip that we wondered what we'd been thinking to decide this,

but as I recall, the reasoning was my husband and I hadn't had a chance to take a real honeymoon because of his work schedule.

This is a couple of years later, now we have a baby and we thought we can do this and off we went.

I had been studying Magdus approach already at that time, so I had that perspective.

I knew that my child needed time to move freely and not have her body cooped up.

I understood the value of familiarity.

So we did our best and we have some great memories of that trip.

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