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[quote=Anonymous]I travel often with my kids on pretty big overseas trips. My oldest just turned 6. We usually have two strollers (ALL of my kids want a break sometimes so the oldest two switch off. Yeah I get that they're too old for a stroller, but whatever) and the kids just nap on the go. When we're in museums or touring castles, I just put the baby in the carrier and she sleeps on me. I pop puffs or cheerios in her mouth if she's fussy. We had a toddler carrier too, but we stopped after kids turned 3. I do have ipads, but they pretty much only get them on planes or emergencies or sometimes when they need downtime (like at a restaurant and it's going over 2 hours!). Yes there is whining, but I think my kids by now know that whining doesn't get them anywhere. Once they realized that, they started to enjoy things. DH and I really, really love to tour and see things, so our interest is contagious. We also try to make it interesting for the kids. And yeah, the littlest ones go to sleep in their strollers if we aren't home yet by 7:30. They just have learned to roll with it.

DH and I always have snacks, sandwiches and drinks for the kids. They melt down if they don't have lunch and we make sure that happens for them regardless of whether we've found a restaurant yet. My mom calls my vacations "the hunger march" ha. Mostly because we're active and she likes to sit down in restaurants for 3 meals a day. My kids can only really tolerate one restaurant a day and basically hate them.

Who knows- maybe my kids will grow up and do nothing but sit on a beach for a week as their vacations. [/quote]

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