Traveling with Your Homeschool Part 1

Taking your learning on the road is one of the great privileges of homeschooling!  Before you take off, here’s a few travel tips  you may not have considered that our family learned on our recent trip of a lifetime:

Traveling with your Homeschool - The White House

Tips for traveling with your homeschool:

• *  Do research your destination thoroughly before leaving.  But, write your plans in pencil.  Remember the saying “All good plans are subject to change.”
• *  When traveling with feisty toddlers, try to break up driving.  We’ve found that our Nip Napper has a 6 hour car tolerance.  We purposely station our multi-tasking, ever-entertaining older sibling next to him with the job of rotating lap sized puzzles, coloring books, reading books and toys to help quell our little tornado.   When getting a bargain price for a motel room, consider this.  That cheap room you rent during the week night mostly likely turns into “party-central” on weekends.  Consider paying more for a good night sleep when overnighting on a weekend night.
• * Institute a mandatory bathroom break BEFORE leaving attractions.  Nothing is more eye-opening (or watering) than discovering your diaper clad child needed a change before you got swallowed by rush hour traffic.
• *  Feeling like a hamster on a wheel during your vacation?  Make sure to plan some time for rest.  Yes, traveling with young children is a lot of work, but, you need to relax as much as possible at least for a period of time.  There’s nothing worse than a crabby parent!
• *  If the need arises for a doctor to treat a minor illness during traveling,  many CVS and Walgreens offer walk-in clinics for a fraction of Urgi-care and Emergency room costs.