Why the best way to travel is with kidsby Inga Batur, the author of the award winning blogcoolkidzcooltrips.com

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Do we want to do it?

If we loved exploring the big wide world before we had our children, isn't it only natural to continue doing it and sharing

our passion with them?

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How to do it?• Don‘t start complicating

things. • Jump right in and decide to go.• Pick something that will suit

your new needs.• No, you don‘t need to bring

the whole nursery along.• Adjust to the „kid friendly“

travel and be prepared for all possible scenarios.

• Don‘t remember how it used to be.

• Enjoy the little moments and don‘t sweat the big stuff. It gets better.

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Why even bother?It‘s more fun.It makes you take it

easy.It makes you see

things differently.It‘s about spending

quality time together.

It‘s about raising smart kids. 4

It‘s more fun.• Think visiting a castle and having to come up with answers to,

where are all the princesses or dragons. • Instead of walking all day in the stuffy, overcrowded museum,

you spend the whole day at the beach building fortresses in the sand.

• If you were all alone you‘d think you had to do all the sights. This way you get to blame the kids and skip some of them.

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It makes you take it easy.• Children make you learn to

pace yourself.• You have to choose sights

because you can‘t do it all.• What you do get to experience

is more insightful than just rushing by.

• Do it like the locals with kids, eat a snack at a park, try all the playgrounds in the vicinity, hit the zoo instead of the galleries, walk around the center instead of a museum, go to sleep instead of a party... 6

It makes you see things differently.• Kids make you see things differently. • With the help of your children, you can again appreciate all

the beauty around you. • Perhaps castles will no longer be ancient buildings or

museums full of useless stuff, they are now places where stories come alive.

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It‘s about spending quality time together.• Work, chores, school, every

day life means less quality family time.

• And even then it‘s too often rushed, incomplete and mostly just the routine.

• Going away from home, you get a chance to be more relaxed, more fun and excited to be together.

• Let the routine be a little loose and you a bit more creative. 8

It‘s about raising smart kids.• By showing your children the

world you are raising them to be smarter, open minded and curious.

• They follow your example so teach them what is appropriate.

• Take them to galleries and museums, to parks and playgrounds, to the store and to the theater.

• Make them see that the trip is a reward in itself not something to be taken for granted.

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Thank you.For more info please visit my website: coolkidzcooltrips.com or contact me: inga@coolkidzcooltrips.com

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