February 13, 2025 • 17 mins
This week Krista, Corrina, and Dr. Jaz talk about their traveling horror stories and share helpful tips on entertaining your kiddos on a plane, car, and just about anywhere! The ladies want to make sure that YOU have the best dang vacation ever! Hahaha stress free!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Mad's Own Mom Squad podcast, a production
of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hard working real mamas.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Having real conversations.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Now sit back, relax, and get ready to talk mom
life with Christa and her Squad.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
All right, girls, I gotta believe each one of us
and every single parent out there, has a story when
it comes to traveling with the most beautiful things in
your life known as your kids.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I said you were talking about luggage exactly. You said,
the most beautiful.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
That's just kidding your Louie Baton, But your Louie Baton
and likes open up his mouth and cry and scream
and aggravate everybody around you. And that is what we're
talking about today because there is a memory that I
have when I travel to go see my mom.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Gia was a baby. My best friend Michelle came.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
With me because we were going out to my girlfriend's
wedding out there. I cannot tell you how I wanted
to off that plane. Oh, Gia literally cried. It was
a four and a half hour flight. She cried straight
for two and a half hours. Two and a half
and I'm a new mom. I had no idea how
(01:12):
to handle this. I was always like we all have
been there, and you feel guilty. You used to be
without a child, and you were on that plane when
you heard that kid cry, You're.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Like, shut that kid off.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah yeah, right, yeah, we've all been there, and you
don't feel for the parent whatsoever. But Gia did that,
and I literally I remember looking at Michelle and then
I remember looking out the window of the airplane and
I started crying, and my anxiety was so high that
I didn't know what to do. And I actually stood
(01:44):
up and I apologized to everybody on the airplane because
I didn't know what to do, and I felt so bad.
But I just I never wanted to go through that again.
I mean, I had to keep her in her seat,
and she's a baby. She had to be locked in right,
she couldn't go run around. So that I wish if
I could replay that and go back to what I
could have done to ease that situation, I would have
(02:07):
What about you, I mean, you've got I mean, you
guys got little ones, so tell me.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I mean, so I.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
Don't we didn't really do a lot of plane rides,
you know, car and so we do car rides and
we had you know, sixteen hour car rides because we
would drive down to Oklahoma to see my in laws and.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I have did I had one thing that did work.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
And I I tell you it's three and now four s's,
and I'll tell you what they are.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And then I say this to everybody, and it's.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Stickers, sweets, shows, and snacks.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Oh you nailed it.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, yeah, I would love that stickers.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
For some reason, We'll get everybody because here's the thing.
You know, they have to peel them off, so you
just give them a notebook and like go to like,
you know, one of those targets they have those little
books or even Michaels, you know places like crafty places.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And they have stickers that.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Are like two hundred stickers and it's just like random
stuff and they're they're cheap, so they kind of are
hard to peel off. You can also use reusable stickers.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Melissa and Doug has they have one of those.
Speaker 7 (03:20):
So I mean I just think I always say, well,
so you know, I always say it's the three s's
until they get old enough to watch shows, so it's stickers, yeah, sweets, snacks,
so like literally have snacks at all times, like goldfish,
tiny bags of a cookie.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't even care what it was. We never had rules.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Chips, pretzels, cheese, a yogurt, pouch on apples, you know,
just have them like lined up so that you're.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Just on it. You you're, oh your board, let's snack it.
I mean, we're not doing this on a normal basis.
So I'm talking about traveling.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
When we're traveling, and then as they get older to
do shows, I mean, just have no show. Just get
that get that show out, you know, watch a little
Pogy the Yogi.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, oh yeah, if I could go back. Yeah, you know,
if you have a baby though, that isn't gonna stop crying.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You get a binkie and you soak it in bourbon.
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That's what they did in the fifties.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Pediatrician in me is just like.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Oh, no, Jazz, you're fine.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
They're fine, man.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
You know what they did this.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
They did this as a kid back back in the day.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I know, I look at everyone.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Everyone else turned out just fine.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Doctor Jazz is not approved.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It's not approved.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Do not approve, do not Okay, I don't know. I
never had never had a baby on an air change.
But I can talk, you know, I can talk all
day about car rides.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Yeah, no, that's great because three and then four uses ladies.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Okay, I'm gonna definitely use that. So last year.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
With baby Ace, who between the ages of six months
to about a year and a half, he was on
ten airplane rides with me six times to Atlanta, one
time to San Francisco, Orlando, twice from DC and back.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So like, we traveled a lot.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
And the reason why is because when you're under two
years old, it's a free lap child.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
If you sit the.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Baby on your lap under the age of two, they're free.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Once he turns to he's a whole extra charge.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
So I said, we're going everywhere while you're under two,
and we just did a lot of traveling. And because
I was breastfeeding I'm still breastfeeding him, but breastfeeding him,
I had to take him everywhere with me on all
work trips, just like going everywhere I went, I just
took him with me. And one of the things that
(05:54):
I found was when they get in the situation where
they're just screaming and just absolutely losing it, when you
run out of the snacks, when you don't have stickers,
I would take them in the bathroom. I would just
stand up and like walk. He would enjoy the walk,
looking at everyone. And then I would just sit in
the bathroom and run the water and.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He would just stop crying.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
It would stop annoying everybody, and we would just stay
in the little tiny stall for like twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Wait, what do people have to go to the bathroom?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They go to the other one.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
They just got to hold it because this is only
when they're like freaking out, streaming, crying, losing their minds. Yeah,
I just had to take them in the bathroom and
then he just stopped crying. He likes to play, and
then we came out. He just kind of rec out.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
So the soothing sound of water, the water is just
a change plane itself would be soothing, right, I mean,
I I mean, I do recall traveling with Julian a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I felt like they slept a lot because it was
like a white noise, yeah you know the plane.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Well yeah, sometimes their ears can be popping and that
can hurt too, especially when they're going up and down.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So I got that.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I gotta get nookies all those like open up the ears.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So the thing that was what was going on, it's
gonna be it was.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Because it was uncommon and they say, you know, your
ears hurt, and think about a baby.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
She was a baby, so I can't get cross, especially
going up and then but that's.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Where she could like suck on milk, suck on a nookie,
you know all that like kind of movement in the
jaw opens up the ear waves.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Tag mom fail no tag Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well I came across this, you know, amazing article because
again we've all been in the situation. There's soon to
be moms like they're gonna be like, can you help
me out? So there are some amazing simple things that
can be very inexpensive. I like, I like this idea
when you're traveling with your child, especially like on an airplane.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
What about magnetic games?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Uh, you can get like bingo tic tac toe chests
and checkers that they're magnetic and so they stay on
the board.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, Melissa has a great one.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, so they're not like falling off all the place.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Have you seen Also, yeah, those are great.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
You know the boards were like you can do you know,
the magnet pen moves things and their mazes and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Those are great. And then also they have water painting,
so it's a pen with water. You can find this
any anywhere.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
It's called Wonderwater, right, Yeah, I love I think you
know any you know, and then you fill the pen
with like a little bit of water and then you
color on this board and it really.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah are these things?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They weren't.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
So that's the thing, all this stuff, you know, it's
like even from having you know, kids four and a
half years apart, I'm noticing even better things now than like, what.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
What's six years ago?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Absolutely so, yeah, the water thing, I think that one.
And the magnets are fab.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And these travel games too, like these magnetic because they're
they're very small. They're less like than ten dollars, so
it's not it's not like, yeah, break the bank, but
I'm assuming you can find these that like.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Target or Walmart. Target, and they also they have those
sketch things. Have you done this with your kids?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
The black thing and then you get a wooden pen
and then you sketch it and it like scrapes off
and then there's color revealed.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I forget what they're called.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Yeah, they're kind I mean you kind of blow them
and kind of stand, you know, it's like a small
sand the black part, but you can like you can
get like scenes.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Where you trace it.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Those are fun actually for restaurants, that's what I use
a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But I mean, you think about it. I've traveled with Plato,
you know.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
I mean it sounds messy, but like one Plato, one
Plato and like two sticks.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Man, Okay, I think it's hard.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
It's it's hard when you're sitting next to someone who's
not like kid friendly, yes, versus when you're with someone who's.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Like, don't worry.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
I get it because Ace loves to like talk to everyone.
So even if we're by strangers, he wants to sit
on their lap, he wants to reach over.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Them, he wants to eat their food. Yeah, and I
always have to be like, oh, I'm.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
So sorry, or he'll stretch out when he's breastbeating and
be kicking people and stuff. So it's really nice when
you're next to someone who I only had one one
guy who kind of was like not into.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It at all. I felt bad.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
He's rude, just kind of like.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Really just not not kind. Yeah, yeah, we don't need s.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I remember when I was a kid because I would
travel the time to see my dad. I got a
lot of motion sickness. So I remember one time it
was traumatic for me. I threw up on the plane and.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
The guy next to me literally got up and left.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I was so, I was so like.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Embarrassed, right, I was like, I can't help it. I
can't help it.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
So a classic thing for us growing up was always
playing with cards. So there's a lot of great playing
cards like Uno Skipop, they said, Phase two, Canasta. These
are really great, they say, especially if you're like staying
in a hotel, like just PLoP your kids on the
bed and play some cards.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, that's so fun.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Play some cards, play some cards. iPad games, I mean,
we're probably more into this, and like this wasn't around
when G was one.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
So what would you recommend for like iPad games?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I mean I actually don't.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
We don't play iPad games yet, but we have little
like fidgety computer stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
One of my favorite ones is a balloon pop game
where the balloons there's just like digital balloons that float
up to the top of the iPad and then when
they touch it, the balloon pops.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Oh fun.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And then you could just sit there doing that for hours.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Is that something you can download?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is it free?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, it's free.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
You download it and it's a free iPad game. You
can get it on your phone too. It's just great
because it's balloons go up and just pop them by
touching them, and they get really excited.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Those are probably be good.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Great when you're in the office and you're on like
a zoom call and you're like, I want to play.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
The balloon the game for me right here, I want to.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Play Also, miniature version of bigger toys. According to this
article said absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Remember playing with.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Like an etic Sketch. Remember Sketch, the Simon game that
was always my favorite as a kid.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Remember it was like round and it lit up and
you'd hit it.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I just bought.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
It for my versions now I just bought one for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Annoying on a plane.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
You want that on a plane, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Probably would be.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
The light okay, but for the car ride, Yeah, that
would be fun. Bop it, I remember, bop it, bop it,
yeahop it, twist it.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Yes, I love the miniature.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I'm like, yeah, I like that idea.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
That's a cute idea. The classic coloring books and crans,
I mean yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
They also said there's a new set of markers that
you can enjoy that you know, they're easier for kids
to use, that the colors are more vibrant.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I mean, obviously for us it was smelling ours.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
That smelling doctor jazz.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Remember they used to fragrant?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Oh, doctor jazz. This explains a lot. Chris is smelling off.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I used to do it, doctor are not okay?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Is it bad?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Though?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I mean, is that bad?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
We listen and we don't.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Okay, we won't judge.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
But I did it too when I was younger. I
smelling it. And you know what else? I love smelling
the rubber glue.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
With that. I remember living in Colorado when I.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Was a kid, and that's what we had was zach stupid?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Did you play with that glue? No, I'm normal.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
School was amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I know I was told not to eat or smell glue.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Oh yeah, okay, that's when they found out it wasn't
so good for you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Are The test explains a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Oh yeah, explains a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I lot that on planes, though.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
One thing I have done before is I get little
snack baggies and I fill them with stuff so like,
and then every half an hour, every twenty minutes, depending
on how old they are, they get to open one
bag and it could be anything in it, and it
could be like two little cars with like a little
ball of plato. I think I've done stickers, I've done
(14:28):
you know, one maybe.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Has a treat in it.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
And then you put it in a paper bag and
they get to open it when the timer.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Goes off and you and you just you can even
go to like a good well and grab some weird
car that you know.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, and that works for all ages too.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
We do age My preteen when a mirror was like preteen,
and we were on long road trips, but it was
at the top of every hour, so it was like
a fourteen hour road trip. So we got our fourteen
little mini presence like that little toys, so then at
the top of every hours she.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Could open it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Right, I want fourteen presents?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, I going. We went to the dollar store.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, the dollar store.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
That's a fad place to go, you know, and especially
when you have multiple kids and you don't want to
get a whole bunch of crap to carry. These are
this is kind of nice because they each get a
paper bag with their name on it, and uh, they
just open them up and I think that's kind of
the fun part and then they know they play with
the toy for the twenty minute duration.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I just need that in my life to get through
the day.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Get those those, I'm going to do that.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Get that at the dollar store, just a bag you
give bags at home.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Well, then Target does a lot of that.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
That's they always have those sections now that are like.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Dollars sections dollars. Yeah, but the dollar section is really
now three dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
What the hell?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I mean, everything is inflammation, inflamation, inflammation inflammatory.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
That's another segment for us, lady. Yeah, that's another segment
for US ladies. So I think this stuff is great.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
You know, whether you're traveling on an airplane, uh, you're
stuck at home with your kid and you're like, gosh,
can you just please.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well, here's a gentle reminder though, to all the moms
listening out. Remember traveling with children is not easy and
it's not supposed to be. And if you have an
easy trip and they're great, that's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That is above the norm. But here's the thing. So
I think I think that we also have to have
grace with ourselves.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
When you travel with children, it's not going to be easy,
and I think we have to put that bar real
low and then if it goes great, great, take a
picture and post it on Instagram.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yes, you know, check me out. Don't be jelly, but
I know you want. Yeah, don't be jelly.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
All right?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well one, well, have a great time traveling with your kiddos.
I mean, I know, spring Break, you guys, is not
that far away from us in March.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
So it's not for a lot of our right there.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
We'll start planning our trip, right but yeah, you're going
to go on an adult only girls.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Yeah, we're gonna pack each other baggies.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Who did we go too far? Too far?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
All right, you guys, take care. We'll talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
This is the Mattton Mom Squad podcast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Here.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hard working real mamas.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Having real conversations.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Now sit back, relax, and get ready to talk mom
life with Christa and her Squad.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
All right, girls, I gotta believe each one of us
and every single parent out there, has a story when
it comes to traveling with the most beautiful things in
your life known as your kids.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I said you were talking about luggage exactly. You said,
the most beautiful.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
That's just kidding your Louie Baton, But your Louie Baton
and likes open up his mouth and cry and scream
and aggravate everybody around you. And that is what we're
talking about today because there is a memory that I
have when I travel to go see my mom.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Gia was a baby. My best friend Michelle came.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
With me because we were going out to my girlfriend's
wedding out there. I cannot tell you how I wanted
to off that plane. Oh, Gia literally cried. It was
a four and a half hour flight. She cried straight
for two and a half hours. Two and a half
and I'm a new mom. I had no idea how
(01:12):
to handle this. I was always like we all have
been there, and you feel guilty. You used to be
without a child, and you were on that plane when
you heard that kid cry, You're.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Like, shut that kid off.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah yeah, right, yeah, we've all been there, and you
don't feel for the parent whatsoever. But Gia did that,
and I literally I remember looking at Michelle and then
I remember looking out the window of the airplane and
I started crying, and my anxiety was so high that
I didn't know what to do. And I actually stood
(01:44):
up and I apologized to everybody on the airplane because
I didn't know what to do, and I felt so bad.
But I just I never wanted to go through that again.
I mean, I had to keep her in her seat,
and she's a baby. She had to be locked in right,
she couldn't go run around. So that I wish if
I could replay that and go back to what I
could have done to ease that situation, I would have
(02:07):
What about you, I mean, you've got I mean, you
guys got little ones, so tell me.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I mean, so I.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
Don't we didn't really do a lot of plane rides,
you know, car and so we do car rides and
we had you know, sixteen hour car rides because we
would drive down to Oklahoma to see my in laws and.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I have did I had one thing that did work.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
And I I tell you it's three and now four s's,
and I'll tell you what they are.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And then I say this to everybody, and it's.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Stickers, sweets, shows, and snacks.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Oh you nailed it.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, yeah, I would love that stickers.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
For some reason, We'll get everybody because here's the thing.
You know, they have to peel them off, so you
just give them a notebook and like go to like,
you know, one of those targets they have those little
books or even Michaels, you know places like crafty places.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And they have stickers that.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Are like two hundred stickers and it's just like random
stuff and they're they're cheap, so they kind of are
hard to peel off. You can also use reusable stickers.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Melissa and Doug has they have one of those.
Speaker 7 (03:20):
So I mean I just think I always say, well,
so you know, I always say it's the three s's
until they get old enough to watch shows, so it's stickers, yeah, sweets, snacks,
so like literally have snacks at all times, like goldfish,
tiny bags of a cookie.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't even care what it was. We never had rules.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Chips, pretzels, cheese, a yogurt, pouch on apples, you know,
just have them like lined up so that you're.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Just on it. You you're, oh your board, let's snack it.
I mean, we're not doing this on a normal basis.
So I'm talking about traveling.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
When we're traveling, and then as they get older to
do shows, I mean, just have no show. Just get
that get that show out, you know, watch a little
Pogy the Yogi.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, oh yeah, if I could go back. Yeah, you know,
if you have a baby though, that isn't gonna stop crying.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You get a binkie and you soak it in bourbon.
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That's what they did in the fifties.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Pediatrician in me is just like.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Oh, no, Jazz, you're fine.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
They're fine, man.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
You know what they did this.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
They did this as a kid back back in the day.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I know, I look at everyone.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Everyone else turned out just fine.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Doctor Jazz is not approved.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It's not approved.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Do not approve, do not Okay, I don't know. I
never had never had a baby on an air change.
But I can talk, you know, I can talk all
day about car rides.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Yeah, no, that's great because three and then four uses ladies.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Okay, I'm gonna definitely use that. So last year.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
With baby Ace, who between the ages of six months
to about a year and a half, he was on
ten airplane rides with me six times to Atlanta, one
time to San Francisco, Orlando, twice from DC and back.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So like, we traveled a lot.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
And the reason why is because when you're under two
years old, it's a free lap child.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
If you sit the.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Baby on your lap under the age of two, they're free.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Once he turns to he's a whole extra charge.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
So I said, we're going everywhere while you're under two,
and we just did a lot of traveling. And because
I was breastfeeding I'm still breastfeeding him, but breastfeeding him,
I had to take him everywhere with me on all
work trips, just like going everywhere I went, I just
took him with me. And one of the things that
(05:54):
I found was when they get in the situation where
they're just screaming and just absolutely losing it, when you
run out of the snacks, when you don't have stickers,
I would take them in the bathroom. I would just
stand up and like walk. He would enjoy the walk,
looking at everyone. And then I would just sit in
the bathroom and run the water and.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
He would just stop crying.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
It would stop annoying everybody, and we would just stay
in the little tiny stall for like twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Wait, what do people have to go to the bathroom?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They go to the other one.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
They just got to hold it because this is only
when they're like freaking out, streaming, crying, losing their minds. Yeah,
I just had to take them in the bathroom and
then he just stopped crying. He likes to play, and
then we came out. He just kind of rec out.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
So the soothing sound of water, the water is just
a change plane itself would be soothing, right, I mean,
I I mean, I do recall traveling with Julian a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I felt like they slept a lot because it was
like a white noise, yeah you know the plane.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Well yeah, sometimes their ears can be popping and that
can hurt too, especially when they're going up and down.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So I got that.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I gotta get nookies all those like open up the ears.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So the thing that was what was going on, it's
gonna be it was.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Because it was uncommon and they say, you know, your
ears hurt, and think about a baby.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
She was a baby, so I can't get cross, especially
going up and then but that's.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Where she could like suck on milk, suck on a nookie,
you know all that like kind of movement in the
jaw opens up the ear waves.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Tag mom fail no tag Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well I came across this, you know, amazing article because
again we've all been in the situation. There's soon to
be moms like they're gonna be like, can you help
me out? So there are some amazing simple things that
can be very inexpensive. I like, I like this idea
when you're traveling with your child, especially like on an airplane.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
What about magnetic games?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Uh, you can get like bingo tic tac toe chests
and checkers that they're magnetic and so they stay on
the board.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, Melissa has a great one.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, so they're not like falling off all the place.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Have you seen Also, yeah, those are great.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
You know the boards were like you can do you know,
the magnet pen moves things and their mazes and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Those are great. And then also they have water painting,
so it's a pen with water. You can find this
any anywhere.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
It's called Wonderwater, right, Yeah, I love I think you
know any you know, and then you fill the pen
with like a little bit of water and then you
color on this board and it really.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Yeah are these things?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
They weren't.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
So that's the thing, all this stuff, you know, it's
like even from having you know, kids four and a
half years apart, I'm noticing even better things now than like, what.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
What's six years ago?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Absolutely so, yeah, the water thing, I think that one.
And the magnets are fab.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And these travel games too, like these magnetic because they're
they're very small. They're less like than ten dollars, so
it's not it's not like, yeah, break the bank, but
I'm assuming you can find these that like.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Target or Walmart. Target, and they also they have those
sketch things. Have you done this with your kids?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
The black thing and then you get a wooden pen
and then you sketch it and it like scrapes off
and then there's color revealed.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I forget what they're called.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Yeah, they're kind I mean you kind of blow them
and kind of stand, you know, it's like a small
sand the black part, but you can like you can
get like scenes.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Where you trace it.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Those are fun actually for restaurants, that's what I use
a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But I mean, you think about it. I've traveled with Plato,
you know.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
I mean it sounds messy, but like one Plato, one
Plato and like two sticks.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Man, Okay, I think it's hard.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
It's it's hard when you're sitting next to someone who's
not like kid friendly, yes, versus when you're with someone who's.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Like, don't worry.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
I get it because Ace loves to like talk to everyone.
So even if we're by strangers, he wants to sit
on their lap, he wants to reach over.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Them, he wants to eat their food. Yeah, and I
always have to be like, oh, I'm.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
So sorry, or he'll stretch out when he's breastbeating and
be kicking people and stuff. So it's really nice when
you're next to someone who I only had one one
guy who kind of was like not into.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It at all. I felt bad.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
He's rude, just kind of like.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Really just not not kind. Yeah, yeah, we don't need s.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I remember when I was a kid because I would
travel the time to see my dad. I got a
lot of motion sickness. So I remember one time it
was traumatic for me. I threw up on the plane and.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
The guy next to me literally got up and left.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I was so, I was so like.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Embarrassed, right, I was like, I can't help it. I
can't help it.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
So a classic thing for us growing up was always
playing with cards. So there's a lot of great playing
cards like Uno Skipop, they said, Phase two, Canasta. These
are really great, they say, especially if you're like staying
in a hotel, like just PLoP your kids on the
bed and play some cards.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, that's so fun.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Play some cards, play some cards. iPad games, I mean,
we're probably more into this, and like this wasn't around
when G was one.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
So what would you recommend for like iPad games?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I mean I actually don't.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
We don't play iPad games yet, but we have little
like fidgety computer stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
One of my favorite ones is a balloon pop game
where the balloons there's just like digital balloons that float
up to the top of the iPad and then when
they touch it, the balloon pops.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Oh fun.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And then you could just sit there doing that for hours.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Is that something you can download?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is it free?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, it's free.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
You download it and it's a free iPad game. You
can get it on your phone too. It's just great
because it's balloons go up and just pop them by
touching them, and they get really excited.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Those are probably be good.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Great when you're in the office and you're on like
a zoom call and you're like, I want to play.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
The balloon the game for me right here, I want to.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Play Also, miniature version of bigger toys. According to this
article said absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Remember playing with.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Like an etic Sketch. Remember Sketch, the Simon game that
was always my favorite as a kid.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Remember it was like round and it lit up and
you'd hit it.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I just bought.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
It for my versions now I just bought one for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Annoying on a plane.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
You want that on a plane, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Probably would be.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
The light okay, but for the car ride, Yeah, that
would be fun. Bop it, I remember, bop it, bop it,
yeahop it, twist it.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Yes, I love the miniature.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I'm like, yeah, I like that idea.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
That's a cute idea. The classic coloring books and crans,
I mean yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
They also said there's a new set of markers that
you can enjoy that you know, they're easier for kids
to use, that the colors are more vibrant.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I mean, obviously for us it was smelling ours.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
That smelling doctor jazz.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Remember they used to fragrant?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Oh, doctor jazz. This explains a lot. Chris is smelling off.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I used to do it, doctor are not okay?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Is it bad?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Though?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I mean, is that bad?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
We listen and we don't.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Okay, we won't judge.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
But I did it too when I was younger. I
smelling it. And you know what else? I love smelling
the rubber glue.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
With that. I remember living in Colorado when I.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Was a kid, and that's what we had was zach stupid?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Did you play with that glue? No, I'm normal.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
School was amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I know I was told not to eat or smell glue.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Oh yeah, okay, that's when they found out it wasn't
so good for you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Are The test explains a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Oh yeah, explains a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I lot that on planes, though.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
One thing I have done before is I get little
snack baggies and I fill them with stuff so like,
and then every half an hour, every twenty minutes, depending
on how old they are, they get to open one
bag and it could be anything in it, and it
could be like two little cars with like a little
ball of plato. I think I've done stickers, I've done
(14:28):
you know, one maybe.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Has a treat in it.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
And then you put it in a paper bag and
they get to open it when the timer.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Goes off and you and you just you can even
go to like a good well and grab some weird
car that you know.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, and that works for all ages too.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
We do age My preteen when a mirror was like preteen,
and we were on long road trips, but it was
at the top of every hour, so it was like
a fourteen hour road trip. So we got our fourteen
little mini presence like that little toys, so then at
the top of every hours she.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Could open it.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Right, I want fourteen presents?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, I going. We went to the dollar store.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, the dollar store.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
That's a fad place to go, you know, and especially
when you have multiple kids and you don't want to
get a whole bunch of crap to carry. These are
this is kind of nice because they each get a
paper bag with their name on it, and uh, they
just open them up and I think that's kind of
the fun part and then they know they play with
the toy for the twenty minute duration.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I just need that in my life to get through
the day.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Get those those, I'm going to do that.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Get that at the dollar store, just a bag you
give bags at home.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Well, then Target does a lot of that.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
That's they always have those sections now that are like.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Dollars sections dollars. Yeah, but the dollar section is really
now three dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
What the hell?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
I mean, everything is inflammation, inflamation, inflammation inflammatory.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
That's another segment for us, lady. Yeah, that's another segment
for US ladies. So I think this stuff is great.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
You know, whether you're traveling on an airplane, uh, you're
stuck at home with your kid and you're like, gosh,
can you just please.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well, here's a gentle reminder though, to all the moms
listening out. Remember traveling with children is not easy and
it's not supposed to be. And if you have an
easy trip and they're great, that's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That is above the norm. But here's the thing. So
I think I think that we also have to have
grace with ourselves.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
When you travel with children, it's not going to be easy,
and I think we have to put that bar real
low and then if it goes great, great, take a
picture and post it on Instagram.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yes, you know, check me out. Don't be jelly, but
I know you want. Yeah, don't be jelly.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
All right?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well one, well, have a great time traveling with your kiddos.
I mean, I know, spring Break, you guys, is not
that far away from us in March.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
So it's not for a lot of our right there.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
We'll start planning our trip, right but yeah, you're going
to go on an adult only girls.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Yeah, we're gonna pack each other baggies.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Who did we go too far? Too far?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
All right, you guys, take care. We'll talk to you again.
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