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Traveling with Kids - A Survival Guide for Parents
Instead of deciding to leave the home for children of the other "family" vacation relax! You can travel with kids an enjoyable and stress free by following these simple tips:
1. Where possible, Travel at night and let the children sleep. But be careful because it is easy to get tired. If you're Getting Sleepy, roll the windows, play music, or better yet, find a safe place to pull over and nap for 20 minutes.
2. Plan your trip during the day with stops all 90 minutes. By planning ahead and using travel planning software, planning online travel sites or travel associations, you can find -- and stop at - kid-friendly places such as parks with playgrounds, historic monuments or areas where everyone can see out and walk around for a few minutes. Give children, even a 15 minute break will give them a chance to "The Wiggles," to work outside and Energy.
3. Bring some Sing-Along music. Although your children groan in early May, when you start singing, they will soon join, especially if the songs are either well known, absurd or "gross". Think about your own childhood favorites, or camp songs. Singing can really help pass the time, and creates happy memories later. To help reduce costs, you can even record your own CD? If children do not know the words, create sing-along books for everyone by typing in your program word processing and printing.
4. Create a goodie-bag. Good ideas are travel toys and games, bubbles, art books, pencils and inexpensive, even the latest in collectible card or miniatures. (To save money, Watch for seasonal sales or buy something every payday.) To reduce arguments about sharing, you can set a time limit to play each game before everyone else has to change. This individual can be wrapped or not, at any given time corresponds to your needs and level of boredom of your children. You can even choose particular games for particular opposition, such as bubbles, Frisbees or small bullets which promote Running off energy.
5. Bring individual "quiet time" activities. It could be a box art (keep the supplies inside a shoe cheap plastic box), postcards or writing paper, or even a journal given each child at the beginning of the journey. Encourage them to write letters, or record their thoughts and feelings. You can also bring along the hand-held games or CD players and headphones cheap, so everyone can listen to music or books of their choice. Depending on the space you have and the length of time you leave, each child can have its own box or backpack to keep their things organized and accessible.
6. If your trip will include a large number of visits, pack a backpack with sweaters, hats, swimsuits (if in season), spare socks, and even towels, in case someone gets wet - accidentally or intentionally. Keep the backpack in the trunk, so you can just grab and go. Most children, if given the chance when near water, will really enjoy getting wet, and it saves wear on your vehicle if you plan ahead. Be sure also to take up water and travel snacks such as energy bars, fruit nuts or combination trip. You can add fun to your child if you also include things like a magnifying glass, binoculars, a disposable camera and their own Travel map.
7. Include the activity of a child is "at least once a day. This may be something as simple as going for ice cream after visiting a museum or go to a water or amusement park. There are often many great activities free or inexpensive in most places in the States. To find them, you can check in advance with the local chambers of commerce, internet, city, or your Travel agent. To help keep costs down, do not forget to check the "two for one" coupons or discounted tickets to are often available in restaurants or fast food in the local newspapers. Also, many family-style restaurants offer "Kids Eat Free" night, which may be a special treat.
8. Do not forget Travel games you probably played as a child. There is "Letter Bingo" where you look at road signs and billboard ads to find the letters of the alphabet, or "License Plate Alphabet" where you go through the alphabet in order. You can also create easy bingo sheets that you print clip art of common sites you will see on your trip. Your children will be more inclined to play along if they know that your parents used to play the exact games with you. (Grandparents are much cooler than the parents ...)
9. Let your children help you navigate, narrate and create information about your trip. There are so many great resources online these days that can help make your stay even better. Let your kids involved helps to make it more pleasant for them. By example, that a child of the browser "trip" each day. They have a responsibility to look at the map and ensure that the appropriate outputs are taken, or how much farther to each destination. (If you really want to be creative, the navigator could wear a special hat or badge, the narrator could have a badge "Press" or see their book, etc.) Older children can create entries written in a newspaper or even in a blog, talk about daily activities and sights. Another option is to provide an inexpensive tape recorder, and each child record their impressions of the different places you see or things you do. Young children can draw pictures or use a disposable camera.
10. Top postcard collecting. The postcards are inexpensive, and your kids will enjoy getting to send them to friends or family members. The postcards are also a great addition to your family photo album after the trip. You can cut, or even write about specific experiences on the back of them, to help everyone remember what you did and where you went.
11. Create a scrap book at the end of each trip, using the postcards and pictures the children made. Letting them help decorate and put the paper together is a fun activity after return.
12. Above all, give yourself a break. There is no such thing as a "perfect" family vacation. Inevitably, there will be things forgotten, things broken or other "unexpected" problems.
By planning ahead and making an effort to get your children involved in the trip, and giving things to do to keep them occupied and interested, there will be less stress and everyone will have a better time. Have a great trip!
About the Author
James Yee enjoys travelling and photography. His useful information on travel is available in http://www.sogoodnews.com/travel/
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