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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids are 4, 3, and 1. They usually wake up at 7am when we're home, but when we travel they start waking at 6-6:30. Baby was really bad over Thanksgiving and was up at 5:30. At home, we let them talk, whine and play in their cribs until 7:30.

What do you do when you're at other people's homes? I try plying my kids with food and staying in a different section of the house, but it's hard. They're LOUD. Inlaws house has an awful floorplan where all the bedrooms are together on one side and the TV backs up to the bedrooms (so we can't use it). Or we have stayed in big AirBnBs (with my entire family) and it's the same issue. The rest of the family, particularly our siblings, want to sleep until 10am and then eat a big breakfast. My kids won't sit for breakfast either because they've already eaten hours ago. There's usually snow outside, so I can't go outside walking with the kids without making a huge racket and they don't want to run errands or play outside without breakfast.

The lack of sleep I get and the annoyance of trying to keep kids quiet all morning really ruins trips for me. Am I missing something? Hotels sound even worse with all of us in the same room and nothing to do until things open.[/quote]

We watch something on a labtop.  But when our youngest was one, he wouldn’t stay quiet for two hours even with screens.   So we would just change diapers and leave the house - walk around parking lots, explore coffee shops, etc.  One parent would go each day and the other would sleep in.  We sometimes had to drive 30-40 minutes to find something open but we had nothing but time to kill.

We would return at eight am and have the run of the public areas of the house.   That’s all the sleeping in you get on a family trip with young kids - sorry hungover uncles![/quote]

Nope. That’s not a rule. Sorry, lazy parents![/quote]

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