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[quote=Anonymous]One thing from your OP that grabs my attention: “We are very frequent travelers.” If you find yourself braving gif meltdowns a lot, I might gently suggest this is part of the reason why.

Kids crave consistency and familiarity. That doesn’t mean don’t travel— I love traveling with my kid. But we don’t travel so much that is disrupts our day to day significantly. During the school year, we are in town most weekends. In the summer we travel more but we try to spend the middle part (July 4th- August 4th or so) at home do that DD can go to camp and get in a rhythm.

We don’t do last minute plane travel anymore, like we did pre-kids. Maybe when she’s older. But that’s too much change too fast for her. I stead we’ll do a last minute beach trip with one overnight, within a few hours drive.

We also create travel routines. The plane is always similar in terms of how we get there and how we pack. Same with car trips. Our travel days have a certain rhythm. We don’t try to do too much. We keep expectations low.

I think if you are expecting to travel as you did pre-kids, you’ll never be through “the hard part.” Travel, like everything else in your life, is fundamentally different now.[/quote]

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