You won’t be surprised that we think understanding your child’s development can help to keep these journeys calm. Don’t forget to check your child’s skills regularly – by keeping their journey up to date you will have activity ideas and articles linked to your child’s development to help you understand where they are now.
If you're wondering how to pack what you need for a week (or even a day out) with your baby – watch our video to see our community manager Becki’s top packing tip!
You can adapt this to work for children of any age, too, by wrapping outfits together for each day (plus some spares!).
Want to find out more tips, tricks and tales of travel with children?
Look out for the brand new episode of the My First Five Years Podcast being released on Tuesday – it's all about getting away and coping with the challenges that brings now you have to pack for more than one person.
You can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or head over right now by clicking this link.
While you wait for the new episode to release on Tuesday, you might enjoy one of our previous episodes like ‘What is realistic parenting, and how can it help?’.
Scroll down to the bottom of your Today screen for a selection of travel related articles:
Tips from our expert for sleeping when you’re away from home with your baby
Five games for travelling
And finally – if you’re getting further afield, we have tips for air travel with your baby.
This is week three of our May weekends series, you can find our article about activities here and about the importance of routines here
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