🧶Keep in mind that when traveling, a child develops better than in kindergarten or in circles.
Any trip for a child is a new experience (a hotel, a new park, a different picture on the street), new food, new faces and different situations: there are no usual swings on the playground, it can suddenly rain. Where else would a child encounter such things at once? And the experience gained will be needed sooner or later, moreover, at the least expected moments.
Treat travel like a part of life
When traveling with a child, do not think that traveling is a temporary inconvenience. Thoughts like “oh, we just need to survive the flight” or “we will go now, build in another place, and then return home and everything will be fine” do not give confidence. On the contrary, you will only wait until everything is over and you are at home. A plane ride, a car ride or a train ride should also not be just a temporary period when the body moves from point A to point B, it is the same life as everything else.
⛑Don't worry in advance
Traveling with kids can seem intimidating until you've taken the first step. When you are already in the process, everything is much easier to live than it seemed ... you should not come up with a problem until you have encountered it.
🍐Take expensive baby food
Even if you have a two-hour flight and you know that at the airport you will go to a cafe or a business lounge, food and drink for the child should always be with you. This is a rule that should never be ignored. Moreover, passengers with children are not subject to a ban on the transport of liquids and other food. Firstly, the child may get hungry already on the way to the airport. Secondly, you can get stuck in line or linger during the inspection and do not have time to go to the cafe. Thirdly, the flight may be delayed or rescheduled.
You can take crackers, dried fruits cut into pieces, muesli bars, cookies with you. Think about what your baby loves but rarely gives. Traveling is exactly the moment when you can let yourself eat a candy or a kinder surprise, there will be no harm from time to time.
Think in advance about the set of toys you will take on the plane.
🧩Another unshakable rule: there are never too many toys on the road. Organizing and inventing classes for a child on an airplane is an important task for parents. All children are different, and only you can know what to arrange as entertainment for your child. For the duration of the trip, you should become a bit of a magician who, at the least expected moment, can get a new notebook, typewriter, mini-constructor, stickers or pencils.
🚗Prepare your child for the trip
Of course, this item does not apply to babies by the year. And with older children, you should talk about the upcoming trip. Explain where and why you are going, what you are going to do there. Show your child photos or videos of the sea, mountains, cities, tell an interesting story about a new place.