8 tips for traveling with young children

Traveling with young children can be torture. It doesn’t only put stress on the kids and their parents, but especially when flying think about everybody else in the plane. We all have a story about spending too much time on a plane with too many screaming kids in our near vicinity. I’m still undecided whether my worst one was the alternating screams from twins who were only a few months old, right in the row in front of me, or the parents who must have caved in under the stress and started fighting with each other.
My favourite story however, is when I flew business class on a transatlantic flight. I upgraded my seat in an attempt to have a little more space, and some peace and quiet after a busy week. You can imagine my surprise when two young parents with two even younger babies entered the business class cabin and started settling in. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one in that cabin who was wondering if there was really no place to hide left. Then, the young father made an surprising co…
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