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Travelling With Small Children

Travelling with kids can be a bit like shooting a herd of wild goats in your holiday. Whether they're your own or someone else's, factoring a child's needs into your journeys involves a lot more than sticking on a CD filled with pop music and making bathroom stops. Here two Rough Guides writers discuss their hard-won wisdom. To start, mum of 2 Hayley Spurway offers guidance on traveling with toddlers, then Ross McGovern reveals the way he handles to travel with older kids. Hayley Spurway's tips for travelling with toddlers

Encourage them to keep a travel journal

Get your children drawing and listing things they've observed and interesting foods that they 've attempted. Who knowsthis might also encourage them to try different foods. Collecting postcards from places that you visit and asking them to write themselves a message on the back means that they can reach adulthood with a library of memories all their own.

Brand them

If you're going to be travelling through active, crowded airports or transport hubs, then write your cellular number on your kid 's arm at biro if they have lost.

Be app-y

As a result of toddler-friendly programs, there's no need to cram a toy box into your hand luggage when travelling by airplane. By all means have a novel and a magic scribbler (crayons only get lost down the side of seats), but the most compact form of entertainment is a device packed with apps and games.

Maintain the actions coming

If you're heading out on a lengthy journey have a collection of toys to be passed out after an hour. Handheld puzzles, miniature colouring books, decals, wordsearches and even very small packs of Plasticine will pass the time on a long flight or car journey.

Book ahead

If you're camping or staying in resorts, it pays to book ahead. Trying to retain the spontaneity of travel BC (Before Children) doesn't repay if you arrive in your destination to find you can't bag a mattress or pitch and have to hit the road again with exhausted, hungry toddlers melt at the backseat.

Avoid sweets

Fight the temptation to keep them going on a lengthy journey by feeding them candies. Pack a combination of savoury snacks such as cheese cubes, breadsticks, fruit and bagels - anything to avoid arriving in a strange city with children in the center of a sugar rush.

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