Today Krista, Corrina, and Dr. Jaz shares memories of when they were ready to go CRAZY, because of the stress of traveling with their kiddos. We have all been there. The ladies each give helpful adivce when it comes to all ages:) Wether you are flying or driving we've you covered!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Mad's Own Mom Squad podcast, a production
of iHeartRadio. Hard working real mamas having real conversations. Now
sit back, relax, and get ready to talk mom life
with Chrisa and her Squad.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
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 3 (00:32):
I thought you were talking about luggage.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
You said the most beautiful. That's just kidding. Your louis Baton.
But your Louis Baton and like open up his mouth.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
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 4 (00:52):
Gia was a baby.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
My best friend Michelle came with me because we were
going out to my girlfriend's wedding out there. I cannot
tell you how I wanted to jump 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
(01:14):
had no idea how 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 like,
shut that kid up.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
We've all been there, and you don't feel for the
parent whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
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 up and I apologized to everybody
on the airplane because I didn't know what to do
(01:50):
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, 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 What about you? I mean
(02:10):
you've got I mean, you guys got little ones, so
tell me, so I don't.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
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 I
have did I had one thing that did work, and
I I tell you it's three and now four s's,
and I'll tell you what they are. And then I
(02:36):
say this to everybody, and it's stickers, sweets, shows, and snacks.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Oh you nailed it. Well, yeah, I would love that stickers.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
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 Target Walgreens they have those
little books or even Michaels, you know places like crafty places,
and they have stickers that are like two hundred stickers
and it's just like random stuff and they're they're cheap,
(03:13):
so they kind of are hard to peel off. You
can also use reusable stickers. Melissa and Doug Has they
have one of those. 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
(03:34):
literally have snacks at all times, like goldfish, tiny bags
of a cookie.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I don't even care what it was. We never had rules.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Chips, pretzels, cheese, a yogurt, pouch on apples, you know,
just have them like lined up so that you're just
on it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You you're, oh your board, let's snack it. I mean,
we're not doing this on a normal basis.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
So I'm talking about traveling. 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 2 (04:05):
Yeah, oh yeah, if I could go back. Yeah, you know,
if you have a baby though, that isn't gonna stop crying.
You get a binkie and you soak it in bourbon.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
That's what they did in the fifties. Pediatrician in me
is just like, oh, no, Jazz, You're fine.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They're fine, man.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You know what they did this.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
They did this as a kid.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Back, I know, back in the day.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I know, Okay, I look at everyone.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Everyone else turned out just fine.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Doctor Jazz is not approved.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
It's not approved.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Do not approve.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
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 4 (04:52):
Yeah, no, that's great because three.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And then four us is ladies.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Okay, I'm gonna definitely use that. So last year 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. So like,
(05:20):
we traveled a lot. And the reason why is because
when you're under two years old, it's a free lap child.
If you sit the baby on your lap under the
age of two, they're free. Once he turns to he's
a whole extra charge. 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,
(05:42):
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 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
(06:03):
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 he
would just stop crying. It would stop annoying everybody, and
we would just stay in the little tiny stall for
like twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Wait, what if people have to go to the bathroom,
they go to the other one.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
They just got to hold it because this is only
when they're like freaking out, streaming, crying, losing their minds.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah, I just had to.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Take them in the bathroom and then he just stopped crying.
He likes to play, and then we came out. He
just kind of recut.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So the soothing sound of water, the water is just
a change clean itself would be soothing, right, I mean
I had, I mean I do recall traveling with Julian
a little bit. I felt like they slept a lot
because it was like a white noise, yeah you know
the plane. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Well yeah, sometimes their ears can be popping and that
can hurt too, especially when they're going up and down.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
And that's my game, noookies, all those like open up
the ears.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
So that was what was going on.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
It was because it was uncommon and they say, you know,
your ears hurt and think about a baby.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
She was a baby, so I can't get especially going
up and then.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
But that's why 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 4 (07:25):
Tag mom fail no.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Tag Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, yeah, Well I came across this, you know, amazing
article because again we've all been in the situations. 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.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I like, I like this idea.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
When you're traveling with your child, especially like on an airplane.
What about magnetic games? Uh, you can get like bingo
tic tac toach tests and checkers that they're magnetic and
so they stay on the board.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, Melissa has a great one.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah, so they're not like falling off all the place.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah. Have you seen Also, yeah, those are great.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You know the boards were like you can do you know,
the magnet pen moves things and they're mazes and stuff
like that.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Those are great. And then also they have water painting,
so it's a pen with water. You can find this
ay anywhere. It's called wonderwater, right, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
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 just really yeah,
are these things?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
They weren't? So that's the thing, all this stuff.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
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 what's six years ago? Absolutely so, yeah,
the water thing, I think that one. And the magnets
are fab I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
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.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Like, yeah, break the bank. But I'm assuming you can
find these that like.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Target or Walmart. Target, and they also they have those
sketch things. Have you done this with your kids? The
black thing?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And then you get a wooden pen and then you
sketch it and it like scrapes off and then there's
color revealed.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I forget what they're called.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Yeah, they're kind I mean you kind of blow them
and kind of stand, you know, it's like a small stand.
The black part. But you can, like you can get
like scenes where you trace it. Those are fun actually
for restaurants. That's what I use a lot of this stuff.
But I mean, you think about it. I've traveled with Plato,
(09:37):
you know. I mean it sounds messy, but like one Plato,
one Plato and like two sticks.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Man, Okay, I think it's hard. 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 (09:52):
Like, don't worry.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
I get it because Ace loves to like talk to everyone.
So even if we're by strangers, he wants to sit
on there, he wants to reach over them, he wants
to eat their food.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah, and I always have to be like, oh, I'm so.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Sorry, or he'll stretch out when he's breastfeeding 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 1 (10:18):
It at all.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I felt bad. He's rude, just kind of like really
just not not kind. Yeah, yeah, we don't need suck.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I remember when I was a kid because I would
travel all 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 the guy next to me.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Literally got up and left.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I was so, I was so like embarrassed, right, I
was like, I can't help it.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So a classic thing for us growing up was always
playing with cards. So there's a lot of great playing
cards like Unos, Skipop, they said, Face two, Canasta. These
are really great, they say, especially if you're like say
in a hotel, like just PLoP your kids on the
bed and play some cards.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Yeah, that's so fun.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Play some cards, play some cards. iPad games, I mean
you're probably more into this, and like this wasn't around
when GM was one.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So what would you recommend for like iPad games?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I mean I actually don't. I don't.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
We don't play iPad games yet, but we have little
like fidgety computer stuff.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Yeah. 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. Oh fun, And
then you could just sit there doing that for hours.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Is that something you can download. Is it free?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Yeah, it's free. 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 2 (11:55):
Those would probably be good. Great when you're in the
office and you're on like a zoom call and you're.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Like, I want to play the game for me right.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Here, I want to play.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Also, miniature version of Bigger Toys, according to this article
said absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Remember playing with.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Like an etgic Sketch. Remember Sketch, the Simon game that
was always my favorite as a kid. Remember it was
like round and it lit up and you'd hit it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I just bought it for my versions now.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I just bought one for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Annoying on a plane on a plane.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, you probably want.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
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. Yes, Yes, love the miniature I'm like, yeah,
I like that idea.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
That's a cute idea.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
The classic coloring books and Crans, I mean yeah, absolutely.
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. I mean
obviously for us it was smelling ours.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They allow that smelling jazz.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Remember they used to, oh, doctor jazz. This explains a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Chris is smelling of I used to do it, doctor.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Okay, is it bad though? I mean, is that bad?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
We listen and we don't.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay, we won't judge.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
But I did it too when I was younger.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I love smelling it.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
And you know what else, I love smelling the rubber glue.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That I remember living in Colorado when I was a kid,
and that's what we had was zach stupid?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Did you play that glue? No, I'm normal.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
She's got school was amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I don't even know what you're talking about it. I
know I was told not to eat or smell glue.
Oh yeah, okay, that's when they found out it wasn't
so good.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You guys are.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
The test explains a lot. Oh yeah, explains a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I love that on planes though.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
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.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
They get to open one.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
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
you know, one maybe has a treat in it, and
then you put it in a paper bag and they
get to open it when the timer goes off and
you and you just you can even go to like
a good well and grab some weird.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Car that you know.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, and that works for all ages too. 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 toy. I mean, at the top of every hour.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
She could open it, right, I want fourteen presents?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, I going. We went to the dollar store.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, the dollar store.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
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 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 6 (15:26):
I just need that in my life to get through
the day.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Get those those I'm going to do that. You get
that at the.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Dollar store, just a beg you to give bags at home. Well,
then Target does a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
That's they always have those sections now that are like.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Dollars section dollars. Yeah, but the dollar section is really
now three dollars. What the health I mean, everything is
for inflammation, inflation, inflammation inflammatory.
Speaker 4 (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 2 (16:00):
Know whether you're traveling on an airplane, you're stuck at
home with your kid and you're like, gosh, can you
just please.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
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 3 (16:21):
That is above the norm. But here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
So I think I think that we also have to
have grace with ourselves 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.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It on Instagram. Yes, yes, you know, check me out.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Don't be jelly, but I know you want, Yeah, don't
be jelly.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
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, so.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It's not for a lot of our right there, right there.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
We'll start planning our trip, right but yeah, you're going
to go on an adult only girls and.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
We're gonna pack each other baggies. Did we go too far?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Too far? All right, you guys, take care. We'll talk
to you again.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
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This is the Mad's Own Mom Squad podcast, a production
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sit back, relax, and get ready to talk mom life
with Chrisa and her Squad.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
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 3 (00:32):
I thought you were talking about luggage.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
You said the most beautiful. That's just kidding. Your louis Baton.
But your Louis Baton and like open up his mouth.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
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 4 (00:52):
Gia was a baby.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
My best friend Michelle came with me because we were
going out to my girlfriend's wedding out there. I cannot
tell you how I wanted to jump 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
(01:14):
had no idea how 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 like,
shut that kid up.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
We've all been there, and you don't feel for the
parent whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
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 up and I apologized to everybody
on the airplane because I didn't know what to do
(01:50):
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, 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 What about you? I mean
(02:10):
you've got I mean, you guys got little ones, so
tell me, so I don't.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
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 I
have did I had one thing that did work, and
I I tell you it's three and now four s's,
and I'll tell you what they are. And then I
(02:36):
say this to everybody, and it's stickers, sweets, shows, and snacks.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Oh you nailed it. Well, yeah, I would love that stickers.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
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 Target Walgreens they have those
little books or even Michaels, you know places like crafty places,
and they have stickers that are like two hundred stickers
and it's just like random stuff and they're they're cheap,
(03:13):
so they kind of are hard to peel off. You
can also use reusable stickers. Melissa and Doug Has they
have one of those. 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
(03:34):
literally have snacks at all times, like goldfish, tiny bags
of a cookie.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I don't even care what it was. We never had rules.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Chips, pretzels, cheese, a yogurt, pouch on apples, you know,
just have them like lined up so that you're just
on it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You you're, oh your board, let's snack it. I mean,
we're not doing this on a normal basis.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
So I'm talking about traveling. 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 2 (04:05):
Yeah, oh yeah, if I could go back. Yeah, you know,
if you have a baby though, that isn't gonna stop crying.
You get a binkie and you soak it in bourbon.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
That's what they did in the fifties. Pediatrician in me
is just like, oh, no, Jazz, You're fine.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They're fine, man.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You know what they did this.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
They did this as a kid.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Back, I know, back in the day.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I know, Okay, I look at everyone.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Everyone else turned out just fine.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Doctor Jazz is not approved.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
It's not approved.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Do not approve.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
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 4 (04:52):
Yeah, no, that's great because three.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And then four us is ladies.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Okay, I'm gonna definitely use that. So last year 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. So like,
(05:20):
we traveled a lot. And the reason why is because
when you're under two years old, it's a free lap child.
If you sit the baby on your lap under the
age of two, they're free. Once he turns to he's
a whole extra charge. 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,
(05:42):
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 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
(06:03):
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 he
would just stop crying. It would stop annoying everybody, and
we would just stay in the little tiny stall for
like twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Wait, what if people have to go to the bathroom,
they go to the other one.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
They just got to hold it because this is only
when they're like freaking out, streaming, crying, losing their minds.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Yeah, I just had to.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Take them in the bathroom and then he just stopped crying.
He likes to play, and then we came out. He
just kind of recut.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So the soothing sound of water, the water is just
a change clean itself would be soothing, right, I mean
I had, I mean I do recall traveling with Julian
a little bit. I felt like they slept a lot
because it was like a white noise, yeah you know
the plane. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Well yeah, sometimes their ears can be popping and that
can hurt too, especially when they're going up and down.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
And that's my game, noookies, all those like open up
the ears.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
So that was what was going on.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
It was because it was uncommon and they say, you know,
your ears hurt and think about a baby.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
She was a baby, so I can't get especially going
up and then.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
But that's why 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 4 (07:25):
Tag mom fail no.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Tag Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, yeah, Well I came across this, you know, amazing
article because again we've all been in the situations. 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.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I like, I like this idea.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
When you're traveling with your child, especially like on an airplane.
What about magnetic games? Uh, you can get like bingo
tic tac toach tests and checkers that they're magnetic and
so they stay on the board.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, Melissa has a great one.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah, so they're not like falling off all the place.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah. Have you seen Also, yeah, those are great.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You know the boards were like you can do you know,
the magnet pen moves things and they're mazes and stuff
like that.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Those are great. And then also they have water painting,
so it's a pen with water. You can find this
ay anywhere. It's called wonderwater, right, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
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 just really yeah,
are these things?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
They weren't? So that's the thing, all this stuff.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
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 what's six years ago? Absolutely so, yeah,
the water thing, I think that one. And the magnets
are fab I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
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.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Like, yeah, break the bank. But I'm assuming you can
find these that like.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Target or Walmart. Target, and they also they have those
sketch things. Have you done this with your kids? The
black thing?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
And then you get a wooden pen and then you
sketch it and it like scrapes off and then there's
color revealed.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I forget what they're called.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Yeah, they're kind I mean you kind of blow them
and kind of stand, you know, it's like a small stand.
The black part. But you can, like you can get
like scenes where you trace it. Those are fun actually
for restaurants. That's what I use a lot of this stuff.
But I mean, you think about it. I've traveled with Plato,
(09:37):
you know. I mean it sounds messy, but like one Plato,
one Plato and like two sticks.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Man, Okay, I think it's hard. 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 (09:52):
Like, don't worry.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
I get it because Ace loves to like talk to everyone.
So even if we're by strangers, he wants to sit
on there, he wants to reach over them, he wants
to eat their food.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah, and I always have to be like, oh, I'm so.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Sorry, or he'll stretch out when he's breastfeeding 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 1 (10:18):
It at all.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I felt bad. He's rude, just kind of like really
just not not kind. Yeah, yeah, we don't need suck.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I remember when I was a kid because I would
travel all 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 the guy next to me.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Literally got up and left.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I was so, I was so like embarrassed, right, I
was like, I can't help it.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So a classic thing for us growing up was always
playing with cards. So there's a lot of great playing
cards like Unos, Skipop, they said, Face two, Canasta. These
are really great, they say, especially if you're like say
in a hotel, like just PLoP your kids on the
bed and play some cards.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Yeah, that's so fun.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Play some cards, play some cards. iPad games, I mean
you're probably more into this, and like this wasn't around
when GM was one.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
So what would you recommend for like iPad games?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I mean I actually don't. I don't.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
We don't play iPad games yet, but we have little
like fidgety computer stuff.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Yeah. 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. Oh fun, And
then you could just sit there doing that for hours.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Is that something you can download. Is it free?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Yeah, it's free. 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 2 (11:55):
Those would probably be good. Great when you're in the
office and you're on like a zoom call and you're.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Like, I want to play the game for me right.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Here, I want to play.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Also, miniature version of Bigger Toys, according to this article
said absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Remember playing with.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Like an etgic Sketch. Remember Sketch, the Simon game that
was always my favorite as a kid. Remember it was
like round and it lit up and you'd hit it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I just bought it for my versions now.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I just bought one for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Annoying on a plane on a plane.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, you probably want.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
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. Yes, Yes, love the miniature I'm like, yeah,
I like that idea.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
That's a cute idea.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
The classic coloring books and Crans, I mean yeah, absolutely.
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. I mean
obviously for us it was smelling ours.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They allow that smelling jazz.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Remember they used to, oh, doctor jazz. This explains a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Chris is smelling of I used to do it, doctor.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Okay, is it bad though? I mean, is that bad?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
We listen and we don't.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay, we won't judge.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
But I did it too when I was younger.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I love smelling it.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
And you know what else, I love smelling the rubber glue.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That I remember living in Colorado when I was a kid,
and that's what we had was zach stupid?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Did you play that glue? No, I'm normal.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
She's got school was amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I don't even know what you're talking about it. I
know I was told not to eat or smell glue.
Oh yeah, okay, that's when they found out it wasn't
so good.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You guys are.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
The test explains a lot. Oh yeah, explains a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I love that on planes though.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
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.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
They get to open one.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
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
you know, one maybe has a treat in it, and
then you put it in a paper bag and they
get to open it when the timer goes off and
you and you just you can even go to like
a good well and grab some weird.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Car that you know.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, and that works for all ages too. 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 toy. I mean, at the top of every hour.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
She could open it, right, I want fourteen presents?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, I going. We went to the dollar store.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, the dollar store.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
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 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 6 (15:26):
I just need that in my life to get through
the day.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Get those those I'm going to do that. You get
that at the.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Dollar store, just a beg you to give bags at home. Well,
then Target does a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
That's they always have those sections now that are like.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Dollars section dollars. Yeah, but the dollar section is really
now three dollars. What the health I mean, everything is
for inflammation, inflation, inflammation inflammatory.
Speaker 4 (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 2 (16:00):
Know whether you're traveling on an airplane, you're stuck at
home with your kid and you're like, gosh, can you
just please.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
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 3 (16:21):
That is above the norm. But here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
So I think I think that we also have to
have grace with ourselves 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.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It on Instagram. Yes, yes, you know, check me out.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Don't be jelly, but I know you want, Yeah, don't
be jelly.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
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, so.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
It's not for a lot of our right there, right there.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
We'll start planning our trip, right but yeah, you're going
to go on an adult only girls and.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
We're gonna pack each other baggies. Did we go too far?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Too far? All right, you guys, take care. We'll talk
to you again.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
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