Create Better Family Travel

I love the tips for better family travel found in this slide show. We do some of these in our family and some we don’t do.

We do tip #1 as you can see here:

When riding a train from Venice to Munich for 7 hours you find interesting ways to stay entertained. #MyLittleMaleficentSweeps Share your child’s mischievous & villainous moments for a chance to win Disney prizes. Enter at http://bit.ly/MLMSweeps #ad

A photo posted by Meagan Shamy (@mommytravels) on Nov 4, 2014 at 9:54pm PST

#MylittleMaleficentSweeps it always a little difficult to get all three of them to pose nice and normal. Sometimes we just have to get the silly one out of the way like we did here in #Hiedelburg #Germany Share your child’s mischievous & villainous moments for a chance to win Disney prizes. Enter at http://bit.ly/MLMSweeps #ad A photo posted by Meagan Shamy (@mommytravels) on Nov 9, 2014 at 4:24pm PST

I also fully agree with tip #4. The kids are benefitting from the trip so why not make them pull their own weight along the way. My kids are more than capable of taking care of their own bags.

Vacation roulette is not going well. Here we are walking across base cause we couldn’t get a rental car last night when we got stuck in base in NJ. #militarytravel

A photo posted by Meagan Shamy (@mommytravels) on Jul 7, 2014 at 7:59am PDT

Now tip #6 is great, but forget setting a time limit and setting up sharing. This is vacation so who cares is my philosophy. My kids all have their own devices, so they should go ahead and enjoy them. Of course ,when I took a selfie of us on the London eye a few weeks ago with my GoPro, I was not amused to see the little one on his phone playing Clash of Clans.