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Have kids, will travel: 8 tips for family trips

Kids should learn how to travel, and parents should learn how to support kids to make travel fun and adventurous. I polled a number of friends and family who have traveled with their kids, asking them for their favorite travel tips. Here are eight favorites relating specifically to airplane and road trips, but I am sure these same lessons apply to most every form of transportation.

7. Meeting someone? Enlist their help!

Andy Nelson / The Christian Science Monitor, File
Unfazed by the beginning of an overnight train trip, 10-week-old Kiran waits as he waits for his mother and brother to finish the ticketing process at the Amtrak counter at Union Station in Washington, DC.

If you are meeting someone at your destination, ask if they can pick up basic supplies like diapers and food, even an umbrella stroller to avoid packing your full chariot. Also, if you know someone with kids at your destination who might be willing to lend supplies, ask for it! It takes a village to raise a child, and sometimes the most helpful villagers are those who offer a stroller and a pack of Pampers waiting on arrival.

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