4 Tips to Save Money and Your Sanity While Traveling with Small Children

Looking forward to taking a trip with your small children? Travel can be such a wonderful way for children to experience the world, and vacations can provide some serious bonding time for families. Still, traveling with small children can also be pretty stressful, especially for parents who are also concerned about their budget. So, if you want to keep tension and expenses low during your family trip, here are some tips that can help you save money and your sanity while traveling with small children.

Stock a Travel Survival Kit

If you’re going to survive a trip with your little ones, you’re going to need some essentials. We’re not talking about first aid kits here, although those can be important for safe travels. Instead, we’re focusing on gear that can prevent meltdowns for your baby and additional stress for you and your partner. Now, you may think that putting together a travel survival kit for your toddler or baby has to be expensive, but there are ways to make it affordable. For example, you can find Kohls coupons and promo codes so you can save money when you pick up child-friendly travel pillows, games, and headphones, all of which can make long flights and car trips more relaxing for your child and less agonizing for you. What’s more, you can stress less about trimming your travel budget and calming your child during the trip.

Relax Those Screen Rules

Games and pillows from Kohls can help keep kids of all ages happier on planes and in cars. If you want an effective and cost-effective way to keep your littlest ones busy, however, you should bring a tablet or smartphone to share with them. You can even find kid-friendly tablets that tend to come with more durable features and lower price tags, so you won’t have to stress about handing your pricey tablet or smartphone over to your toddler or young child. If you decide to pick up one of these tablets, just be sure to search for promo codes and cashback offers using the resources above so that you can get the most for your money. As previously mentioned, a pair of child-sized headphones can also make travel for children and parents much easier, and fellow travelers and passengers will appreciate not having to listen along

Bring Some Healthy Snacks

When kids get hungry they tend to get cranky. So, if you plan on taking a road trip, you have the option of bringing a cooler full of healthy snack and drink options that will minimize hunger for your family and also help minimize stops and costs. To make eating those snacks easy, try to avoid foods that require utensils and go with handheld snacks instead, like veggies, fruit, cheese sticks, or crackers. If you are traveling by air with your little ones, you can still bring some snacks to avoid spending a fortune on airport fare. Just check TSA food guidelines before you pack any snacks or foods in your carry-on so that you can avoid stress in the security line

Download Free Travel Apps

Another good reason for buying your kids their own tablets is that you can use yours to make traveling less stressful and expensive for your family. To start, you can use budget travel apps to help plan your family road trip or vacation, as well as score discounts on everything from gas to accommodation to airline tickets. You can also download apps to keep your kids entertained and occupied, even if you have toddlers or babies. For example, you can use white noise apps to help lull fussy babies to sleep in the car or you can use educational games to keep bored toddlers busy on airplanes. Either way, apps can make travel easier for both kids and adults.

Vacationing with small children — and even babies — definitely doesn’t have to be stressful for parents! Just follow these tips as you plan and prepare for your family travels, and you should be able to save some time, hassle, and money along the way. That way, you can focus on relaxing and making memories with your children!

Keep your sanity while traveling with small children.

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This post is by guest blogger Leslie Campos of Well Parents

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