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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You definitely don’t need all that stuff. Pack and plays sure, as someone with twin toddlers myself, I see the incredible benefit in having baby cages at the ready. But why exactly can’t your child eat anything at grandmas house? Even if your kid had some kind of extreme dietary issues like severe allergies, you should still be able to order some package snacks off of Amazon and have them delivered at grandmas house in advance of your trip.  And why on earth do you need a video monitor if you are all sleeping in the same room anyway?  You are right that they are probably not going to nap while or sleep well, but driving five hours in one day was probably going to throw off everyone’s schedule anyway.

All that said, it is absolutely true that once parents get about a decade out of the baby and toddler years, a lot of them develop a special kind of amnesia that allows them to remember their one and two-year-olds as being essentially older three or four-year-olds in terms of behavior, need for naps, etc. As the  last person in my friend group by about a decade to get around to having kids, I cannot tell you how many friends who were super high maintenance at the time and told me horror stories about how terrible it was if their kids got off schedule, now tell me I should just go with the flow and not stress so much. They literally will tell me that their kid never had an issue with XYZ even though I personally witnessed meltdowns at group gatherings caused by that very issue.  People really do forget.[/quote]

Np. Best answer.[/quote]

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