As parents, we love to go along with our children during weekends. Despite busy days working 5-6 days a week, is it likewise, hard to plan a hassle-free travel with your kids. Though quiet hard, it also an important part to spend quality time away from the four corners of your house at building a harmonious relationship or bonding moment while he is a child. Travelling while enjoying with your kids can possibly be planned however, it needed a careful and time consuming activity considering the following factors such as: place, money, and age of your kids.
I have here some tips to be shared based on different experiences that I have gathered from my friends and as well as my own.
- You need to make sure that you are visiting a child-friendly place.
As a parent, it would be a more important to go places that both of you can enjoy with. Baker’s Hill is one easy place to make the visit more enjoyable that offers a lot of fun things from all ages. Rizal Park in Manila, likewise is one of the most visited area during weekends where family outings/camp always happen.
- Don’t rush / limit your day/s off
Here, children will most likely to sleep when staying in an area or enjoying a pool as long as they wanted. For this moment, you will see their priceless smiles and active body thus, worth paying for all your efforts in planning such travel and/or a short vacation.
This is truly an important thing not to forget. Toys are children’s best friend and so are you. It varies whether you bring tablet for them, a children’s book, crayons and pencil and other related stuff they are enjoying with. Fun snacks, fruit chews and fruits will also in great help for travel. Sometimes when in a hurry you forget to bring a long these things, try to be creative like, singing with them a nursery songs they like and/or playing cat and mouse.
Aside from these typical things, you can make the hours go by smoothly by playing the popular frozen soundtrack – Let It Go to your portable dvd player or tablet.
- Planning ahead of time is worth saving
Before a short or long travel, make sure that you have to include everything in your list. From baby wipes, mosquito repellents to first aid kit (the most needed thing). If found lacking, all these stuffs will cost you double of your money more particularly in report.
Bring only those things you needed for the said travel. Because, it will only eating your car space and cost you additional charge (luggage/baggage). Before, I have often travel with excess baggage thus sometimes causes me too much effort in carrying my stuff. Though nightmare having too much baggage, travel is now in both comfort and style from a travel club collection.
These simple tips are easy to follow, thus, it will make a trip with your kids a hassle-free and memorable one to cherish that could last a lifetime. But please don’t forget to allow extra time for a pause during a long road trip because traveling with kids can be an overwhelming experience.