back from vacation: 5 Tips for travel with a toddler(and coming out alive)

[Elita1]

Tip #5: Have at least 1 other adult travelling with you. Not only for your own sanity, but for the lives you might endanger when you get off the plane--you'll want to punch the living daylights out of the first familiar face you'll see.

Tip #4: Take a change of clothes with you on the plane. Not for possible delays and overnighting in a hotel. You'll be covered in crumbs, drool and wee-wee within the first hour on the plane; use it then.

Tip #3: Take snacks and drinks for your little one(s). Preferably the kind mixed with a heavy sedative.

Tip #2: 4 am waketime + 6 hour flight + 0 naps = Clinical Hysteria This equation holds true for both your family and the other passengers.

and the Number One Tip for travelling with toddlers is...


DON'T DO IT!!!!!!


Leave them with your in-laws, a friend, a neighbor, the gypsies; whoever will take them but for your own sake DON'T TAKE THE KIDS!!!!!!!!! <twitch, twitch>

Seriously, My daughter and I had a great time but boy, am I ever glad to be home.

Gads, I missed the OT forum!

 

[Vikaden]

Tip #6: Bring along a caddle prod for those kids that get out of control

 

[shopbruin]

where did you vacation? have fun elita?

 

[Elita1]

Freesia--yes I had a lot of fun. Went to my homeland Honduras to see my family for a few weeks.

 

[cxim]

tip #7
go to the vet before you leave... tell the vet your dog goes nuts in the cage on the plane &amp; you have several plane trips to take.

get plenty of knock out shots for the dog.

don't take dog.

give shots to the kids.

 

[Yeeny]

Tip #3: Take snacks and drinks for your little one(s). Preferably the kind mixed with a heavy sedative.

ROFL! Oh, I know that feeling. But remember, if a sedative is not handy, there is always a hammer. Oh wait no, thats the sedative for my hubby when he starts whining. Scratch that last suggestion...

 

[UG]

Tip #1: Never have kids.

You're better off with an Albatross around your neck.

 

[Elita1]

<< You're better off with an Albatross around your neck. >>



Dear me!
I don't get the refference but maybe I'd rather have a hyperactive kid, instead. At least I can have the pleasure of snapping at the other passengers when they complain: &quot;Count your blessings, I could've had TRIPLETS!!!&quot;

Oh, by the way, BUMP

(Trust me people, this information will save your life)

 

[ArkAoss]

hmm thanks for the heads up, speaking of long lost members, any one heard from unxpurg8d?

 

[BoberFett]

UG, step away from the crossbow.



Elita

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge

 

[Elita1]

Thanks, Boberfett.

That's what I get from having a Honduran High-school education. I miss a lot of references to North American or European Literature. Unfortunately 4 years of University in the States couldn't help me catch up enough.

Oh well. Asi es la vida!

 

[Ornery]

What's a vacation?

 

[Missus]

LOL...

Sorry you had such a rough time! I am glad that you made it back in one piece... May not be very sane, but at least you physically made it!!

I bet it was nice to see your homeland!

 

[highme]

Children's Tylenol works wonders as both a sedative, and as pain relief for their ears when the cabin pressure changes upon descent.

 

[Azraele]

WB, sounds like you had a handful with the kids